Actually EVs collect a huge amount of information including video and audio of the participants. It’s a huge privacy issue regardless of manufacturer country but you obviously should distinguish the difference between a foreign country collecting information on your citizens compared to your own. Neither is good but one clearly has more authoritarian tendencies and less scruples about finding and coercing compliance with any means at their disposal.

Not sure about what was removed but you can use the keyword bookmark with your own search url replacing the search term with %s

For example add bookmark:

• URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s
• Keyword: red

So in the address bar you would type the keyword first then the search query like:

• Address bar: red best open source software to support