I gave permission to Firefox, but honestly most of my services weren’t affected because I connect to 99% of them via Tailscale which doesn’t seem to trigger the permission. (Yes that was an absolute nightmare to figure out why only one service was failing to connect)

Maybe not in the usa but I can 100% see some European countries or maybe even Russia doing that to limit reliance on US tech

They are both good options. The general way I break it down is:

Is this your first Linux PC? Bazzite

Is this a home theater PC or other console like device? Bazzite

Do you have a lot of specialized hardware that needs custom drivers / kernel modules? CachyOS

Do you want to be able to more easily customize parts of the os? CachyOS

Obviously not every case is covered here but hopefully that gives you a bit more of an idea of what each distro is better at. Performance wise they are nearly identical, tbh the biggest difference is that Bazzite is an atomic distro and CachyOS isn’t.