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Nah. Not an issue really for me.

Ok, yes, my phone (which is not a Samsung) also includes some info in screenshots.

What app are you using to see the exif data? Perhaps my screenshot has this info as well but the different apps I use to view exif data do not show it.

Relevant info about the username/accountid implementation: https://fosstodon.org/@link2xt/111965597727225353

I use MuPDF but there is also the GrapheneOS PDF viewer available on their GitHub

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer

You can install it using Obtainium or jus grab it from the GitHub page.

Did you delete them outright or modify the text and then delete it? That is the tinfoil hat way! If you lived in Europe you could request your data to be deleted. You can also request your data and they are supposed to comply at some point. If you did that you could see what they have.

The rabbit hole will drive you a little bonkers so maybe don’t overthink it for now and take a look at https://www.reveddit.com/ and archive.org to see if your username pops up.

Agreed. But, my old 3B is still kickin so I won’t be too harsh.

Maybe. The newest Rpi can I believe.

I have a friend / colleague who was a bit like this. It is a “see it to believe” situation. For her it was when she was at work and she watched her mouse stat moving on its own.

When she thought about how she never did anything bad on her work computer, but sometimes accessed her personal email… She got it.

And now she pays closer attention to things. Like in our city you’re pinged via WiFi when you get on a bus, but you can opt-out or jut turn of your WiFi, so she does that. And she makes email aliases now too. Nothing too serious, mind you, but she is 50 and figuring this out on her own and then teaching her friends and colleagues about it which is way better than going down the rabbit hole. Now there’s a bunch of boomers refusing to use Teams or access work email on their personal devices because she explained that they do have things to hide: the names and ages of their children and grandchildren, where they go for drinks after work, what they watch on YT, etc.

I don’t get into it with people though. People just write me off as some nerd, which is not the case.

☝️ this is correct. GSF calls home and /e/ is a different beast. The founder of Murena and /e/ is on Fedi so you could drop him a message on Mastodon and see how he answers.

Not sure if you can relock the bootloader

Their site doesn’t include that info

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/panther

/e/ is a “degoogled” experience, but as noted on their site and by others here:

Google Services are replaced by microG and alternative services (see below for more details)

For a regular uninformed user like myself (I just use the stock ROM on my phone because I am stuck with it) I read that as:

We made this experience as frictionless as possible at at a cost.

The friction here would be banking and/or tap-to-pay apps that I think cause some issues for some people (please correct me if I am wrong).

So, you would lose something that is offered by GrapheneOS and gain a different interface and access to apps that have a hard requirement for GSF.

Not a complete answer, but I stand behind Privacy Browser. The dev has a great blog explaining how the browser works:

https://www.stoutner.com/webview/

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-android/core-privacy-principles/

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-android/permissions/

I appreciate the transparency of the Dev and I am looking forward to the long-teased 4.x series that will ship with its own webview.

If you decide not to use it, keep it on your watchlist.

Neat. Thanks.

I don’t agree with all the sources listed on the website, but that’s ok. The information should still be on the list.

What I think most beginners need is a simple way to determine their threat model. Otherwise, someone just stumbling down the rabbit hole might see a list or a site like this as a “to-do list” and drive themselves crazy.

You can run LanguageTool locally. While it isn’t as great as the paid version, I use this to check nearly everything I write for work in my native language, and in the other languages I speak

https://caderek.github.io/gramma/ is a cli spellchecker that has the option of installing a LT server locally. Not ideal if you are writing things with Pages/Word/etc., but a possible backup.

A regular user like myself finds it easier to answer this question with 3 options:

1. Centralized
2. Decentralised
3. P2P

Signal and Threema are centralized options. With Signal planning on rolling out usernames it will be an excellent choice, hopefully.

Matrix, XMPP, Session, DeltaChat and others are decentralized, and some allow for self-hosting.

Briar is P2P.

I have done this before. And, yes, you can just delete apps from your smartphone and carry on…

But, the fact is that McLuhan was right, the medium is the message. So, the having the smartphone will change your behaviour.

A smartphone in your pocket is just a communication device, but it can be used to access content. As such, it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a smartphone enables people to create spaces that would otherwise be moments of calm, socialising, rest, work, or boredom. A smartphone creates an environment by its mere presence.

This person used a TCL Classic, which is a low-powered Android device. You can even sideload apps with adb.

It likely also includes Google components/packages. So, if someone wants to use this to escape big-tech, data is still being collected. The keyboard app on these types of phones is usually Kika. According to exodus, there are 14 or so trackers built-in (see https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/kika.emoji.keyboard.teclados.clavier/latest/).

Like I said, I tried this different times: I had a Nokia 800T, and 2 versions of the Punkt. phone. It is a fun experiment. I did spend less time on social media. I was more present. But, at some point, you do need a full smartphone for banking, work, and so on.

I use some of the filters here

https://github.com/yokoffing/filterlists#how-to-import-custom-filters-into-ublock-origin-ubo

1. Password manager
2. Adblocker
3. 2FA

Next steps are a Quick software audit: how do you check your email, what chat apps are you using, what browser are you using, etc.

Always keep things low-friction to stat out

https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2022/03/low-friction-introduction-to-digital-privacy/

Is it opt-in or opt-out by default? I think I would be against it. But then again I am not a rule breaker so it is hard to imagine.

Given the choice, it would be a hard no for me. It isn’t 100% perfect yet, mistaken identities and discrimination are good reasons to not bother with it. Beyond that, if insurance companies had access to it, it would be a disaster.

It’s Friday night, you go out for a just a drink or perhaps the camera catches you smoking. Now your life insurance policy is messed up.

Obviously, that is an exaggeration the likes of which only happen in Black Mirror. Power and greed have never pushed anyone to any single unethical thing ever.

Mailbox.org

Whe I moved away from Gmail it was the only one that had an offer that I liked: email, cloud, contacts, calendar, office stuff (groupware) AND it had (at the time) a very flexible price. I didn’t need lots of storage and Mailbox was the only one that had the option to change capacity. Now it doesn’t. Either way, still very good. The web client is a bit slow and I’m not a fan of how they handle 2FA, but still better than Gmail for me.

I did want to go with disroot, I forget why I didn’t. Proton didn’t have a calendar when I was shopping around. Do you still need a separate app for Proton or does it have IMAP now?