You’re connected to a cell tower/to a router.

Your ISP can see your address before connecting to the VPN.

Sure, so let me export my data from another PC or phone. If they wanted you to have message history, they would. So I’ll respectfully disagree.

Why can she do WhatsApp but no Signal?

It’s already needing to convince people to use Signal, why also making it hard for, let’s say, your grandma.

Because his grandma can’t type a password 30 characters long just to restore her messages.

They are so smart and still make some choices that are so, so, *so dumb*. ‘No history on a new PC for you, it’s a ״feature״’. Seriously? c’mon.

Material Files is the best, IMO.

It’s basically Tor Browser without using the Tor network.

I think you *should* think about moving to more FOSS-friendly OSes, but in time, down the line, not this instant. Maybe the next devices you’ll own, or when you feel ready, comfortable, with privacy; anyway, GL!

E: wording

Other awesome FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) lists for your other OSes (computer/tablet).

I’d start small, a lot of people would tell you to do some drastic changes to you life, but, like every other thing you have in life, start small, or you’ll might fail.

I’d suggest starting here.

Shelter is better, BTW; but Insular is good option too.

If you don’t want Google *device* you could get any other device supported by LOS but is means no official GOS on your phone.

To update your Play Store apps you can use Aurora Store (notice that Aurora *Droid* is completely different app).

Banking apps work great on second profile (user), you can use Shelter/Insular (accessible from the main user), or Android’s ‘Multiple Users’ (which means to switch user).

E: double space

And if that doesn’t work, you just start to pray /j

I’m so sorry.

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Like other comments suggested, don’t take the risk, create a separate account.

I partially disagree. It depends on *why* they sent the link.

If it’s totally out of nowhere, I agree; if someone asks a question and their channel/video answer the question? Feel free to advertise yourself.

So they’ll just rebrand it in the near future.

Like FLoC is now Topics API…

Secondary phone, or any other additional android device (let’s say a tablet).

(You can google Facebook lawsuits. The number of the results is scary.)

That’s what they say. Meta Facebook already lied before countless times, so who knows.

You can change the fallback and preferred API settings on the general settings section.

Disable ‘Proxy Videos Through Invidious’, under ‘Player Settings’.

Just here to comment about ‘tablet that doesn’t send your data to big corporate’.

If that’s an Android tablet, you’ll always have Google spyware. If it’s <manufacturer-name>'s (that is not Google), then you’ll have the spyware of them both.

So, I, personally, would’ve go with one that have a custom ROM. If you’re not open to the idea, maybe at least something created by Google.

Whoogle.

BTW, I heard that you can use any invalid email address, but I never tried it myself.

Copy-pasting my own old answer.

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Choose any of these 3 options:

A. Shift+F10 (opens cmd) > OOBE\BYPASSNRO

B. Continue until getting to creating account

B.1. Account > 123@123.com/test@test.com/a@b.com/1@1.ru/fuckoff@microsoft.com/a@outlook.com/d@d.d/na@na.com

B.2. Password > *enter any random password*

C. […] > How would you like to set up this device > Set up for work or school

With an existing system:

• CMD > net user /add *

Someone already broke to my house, so who need locks. /j

Molly added multi-device support, including secondary *Android* devices - phones, tablets, etc.

Fennec is good, Mull is the best for general browsing (so excluding Tor).

About how Pixel is more private… Pixel ‘only’ has Google’s tracking; other manufacturers have their own tracking, *on top/in addition* to Google’s tracking.

You can install on it a lot of custom ROMs, including GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.

Kind of ironic. Got into privacy, thanks to Google.

I forgot to mention, ASK also has a very wide selection of languages.

AnySoftKeyboard is great.

I usually use Adblocker Ultimate.

To check it, I disabled all the other extensions.

100% with Adblocker Ultimate.

90% with uBlock Origin.

You can use Shelter and to have there all the closed-source apps.

Banking apps work on a different user (Shelter’s/Android’s reg. secondary user) on GrapheneOS.

If you’re not comfortable with tinkering with your phone, that’s a different story. But know that you *can* have your cake and eat it.

The best would be to keep the language as it is, but it’s not really realistic…

You need to set it to your own country.

Unless there’s another place with a majority of people who speak the same language. Then, you can set the VPN to that country instead.

If you’re comfortable with English, I’d set it to English instead. It’s a bit less specific, so it’s another ‘layer’ that makes collecting data on you *a bit* less accurate.

You can use Farside with a Whoogle instance.

That way you don’t have to rely on a single instance.