Thanks for this. I wish more of us posted resources like this one more often.

Dude, it’s all good. I doubt anyone has entirely removed intrusion from their lives. I’ve been the nut in my family, friends and work environments (not complaining, I actually love being that person) on privacy and cybersecurity. I still keep my Gmail account, the one I used to buy all my movies when I thought Google wasn’t evil. My kids love using the Lenovo Google Assistant screens. I have 2 Chromecast with Google TV with the account I mentioned (my TVs do not connect to the internet). I play on my PS5 with my account and use my credit card (none of that temp credit card or cash or crypto), but I haven’t used my PayPal in years (but still have it). I buy shit on Amazon (it’s so convenient).

The point being, do what you can to safeguard your privacy as much as possible, as long as it does not affect your mental health. You need Facebook for whatever reason? You can minimize the invasion, and still use it. (Full disclosure, I fucking hate Meta, so I don’t use any of its platforms, or even their open source language model). I’m on GrapheneOS in my phone, use Linux exclusively in my personal life, but I’m picking up a surface pro 11th Gen for work this Friday. I need my job, everything is windows based, and it’s just getting harder to use Ms shit from Linux effectively. So, I use Windows. I have a good job, get paid well, so, I have to decide if that’s worth some of my privacy.

Live life man, enjoy, be happy, then worry about the rest.

That’s not a privacy win for anyone. What this is is a marketing win for Crapple and Google.

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You’re absolutely right. Chrome is the worst offender, no question about that.

I’m guessing that the requirements for a PR job with Mozilla say “removed people preferred”.

What is the point of using anything Mozilla if it’s just going to do the same shit as the services we keep trying to avoid, only worse?

Mozilla has fallen, it is no longer focused on privacy. I get that companies need money to operate, but there are alternatives to just poking holes to be profitable (while calling yourself “not-for-profit”).

Everything under the Mozilla umbrella is questionable, at best.

That’s what I ended up doing. I don’t want any of that shit in my daily driver.

Guilty as charged, I owned a total of 5 jeep/Chrysler/Dodge vehicles way back when. Moved to Infiniti, then Tesla (fucking got rid of it within a year) and now I have a Chinese BYD with every telematic disabled.

Should we start a thread showing off our tinfoil hats collections? 🤣

Isuzu diesel engines are immortal, you can’t break them even if you put gasoline in them 🤣

The fact remains that, unless everyone decides to punish these companies by not buying anything from them until they change course, it’ll only keep getting worse. Show me 1 that has changed to keep their clients happy instead of the shareholders. Yes, it can change within 20 years, for the worse, as history has shown us.

That’s the easy “justification” used 99% of the time. Every single company. Fuck them all.

Unfortunately, public transportation in my country is garbage, and I’m being considerate with that word.

I used to be a rabid advocate of self hosting password managers, and was switching between Vaultwarden and KeepassXC every few months. But Proton offered a lifetime subscription to Proton Pass with unlimited Simple login aliases, and I bought it now use this exclusively.

For me it’s hit-or-miss with Nord and with Proton. As a matter of fact, works more times than not. This is on Brave browser, just to be clear.

Same here. It works flawlessly. I installed from Github via Obtainium.

And for all devices. Seems it’s only available for Windows. WTF?

You can hide your phone number from other users, bit still need a phone number to sign up or to use your account.

I’ve been on GrapheneOS for almost 4 years now, absolutely no regrets, even on my mental health.

I’ve been on GrapheneOS for 4 years or so. I’ve tried CalyxOS every now and then, but always end up coming back to GrapheneOS. I find it simple, private, secure and free of BS. CalyxOS does come with some stuff preinstalled, which doesn’t really appeal to me, and I trust the sandboxes Google Play model much more that MicroG.

About the devs, I really haven’t had any issues that I have not been able to resolve myself, so my interaction with the is non-existing. I have read some posts with interactions with them, and they do seem to be hostile towards anything that is not 100% aligned with their train of thought, which I find stupid, to say the least. But regardless of how rude they may be, I feel GOS literally has no competition in the Android landscape in terms of privacy and security.