How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid: “I set up accounts with […] Apple”. How does this combine?

Privacy is deteriorating by the day. The only upside is that perhaps it will wake people up, eventually.

You’re correct. It was a typo 😅

I run /e/OS on my FP5. I like it a lot, I don’t know much about the technology though so I can’t tell it how it compares privacy wise. I am just happy that I get to run a phone without any Google/Apple involved. I use mostly f-droid apps and if I would really need something from the Play store I could access that through /e/'s App Lounge

Didn’t know them yet, I’ll look into it, thanks for the tip

Increased access to p2p networks

It’s with MicroG. I suppose banking apps work, but personally I don’t use any on my phone. I only do finance on my pc.

I moved back to Proton. But on Linux I still don’t know how to portforward now.

I don’t think you should expect any privacy on an Apple device

IF only they hadn’t removed port forwarding I would love Mullvad

I use /e/OS and it suits all my needs. I use mostly F-droid apps but I have access to Playstore apps through the AppLounge and it works like a charm. I don’t have to do any tinkering so far and I’ve been using it for a year or so.

I used to have Mullvad but it recently disabled portforwarding-support. Now I ditched it in favor of Proton since I already had a Proton subscription running. I am still looking out for a VPN that supports portforwarding though, in a way that a non-tech-savvy person like myself can run it on Linux. No idea where and how to do that now.

Exactly, like fishers will fish,data miners will mine data. If you don’t like it, stop being a customer

I think the talk about personal privacy is obscuring the real issue. Power corrupts. Data is power. Big data is dangerous. If big tech abuses this power how could you fight it? Because they will notice any resistance and they can remove your visibility. It;s not about whether you personally have something to hide right now, it’s that no one will ever be able to hide anything anymore if we continue on this path, and I cannot for the life of me see how that does not end in totalitarianism eventually. I have nothing to hide, but that’s irrelevant.