RCS should be the default. SMS is the protocol designed for old non smart cellphones.
The exact problem is that Apple DOES default to SMS outside of imessage
I'm not sure if you're joking, but in case you're not:
Brave is not a search engine. Brave is a browser. You use browsers to interact with things like search engines.
The top three search engines that I can think of right now are Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go.
Dude don't blame arch for that necessarily. Manjaro has always been shady AF. More bad press for Arch comes from that pos 'distro'. I understand sorta why the arch forums get salty when 'actually I'm on Manjaro' come up in the process of trying to help them.
I don't think the point is that it's his fault they have crazy laws. I think it's his fault that he didn't anticipate this would be a problem. I'm sure he did ZERO due diligence. I guarantee this came as a surprise to him.
To be fair to FUD, it has its own much longer annoying history way before crypto.