i believe it logs your listening history even with local files and uploads it to apple. i could be completely wrong but iirc itunes used to do this too back in the day

can’t personally vouch but AirVPN still has PF if you need it.

looks like it yeah - i had a similar setup a while back.

ty for posting discord content in a public forum. i hate having to join a discord server just to read a poorly organized wiki essentially haha