oh shit. I used to use this but removed later after realizing it wasn’t open source.

Sorry if I sounded mean but this is a privacy community and search engine is literally where you go to search for things you don’t know.

Have you tried searching before commenting?

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

Try Universal ADB Debloater, you can probably remove most spywares from it. Surely I can’t trust it as much as a FOSS rom, but from my quick network inspection my samsung stock rom with UAD makes pretty much no network connection at all.

universal adb debloater and rethinkdns

run the thing on an isolated container/vm? not much else you can do, your face/audio can’t be hidden anyway

nice script sir, tysm

not sure about win/mac, but for android yes they do keep record of stuff like what apps are being launched and upload/sync to google account. it’s not hidden though… it is(was) literally available on google account history or something (was about 7 years ago)

regarding keystrokes there was a case of a famous chinese keyboard app doing dubious stuff. not sure if i can say it’s on a os level but i’m pretty sure more than a few chinese phones ship with that. https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/

it’s not perfect, it loses tons of data for some reason. there’s also pretty much no way to properly archive documents in google docs (their history/metadata)

fuck google

Fennec is just upstream firefox with a few patches applied during build afaik, so they probably forgot to remove what upstream added. Nothing to worry about imo.

same, i just say I don’t do instagram and tell them my local whatsapp equivalent’s id or phone number. I’ve tried using instagram a few times but it can’t be used anonymously at all.

already being an apple user maybe you can buy your own domain and tie it to apple’s mail service. when you want exit just connect the domain to something else.

maybe jshelter can help?

codeberg seems to be working well for me. i got too many cloudflare captchas with gitlab.com.

just don’t bring your daily driver phone, leave it home. carry some secondary phone you can use for camera or navigation (offline maps) or fm radio

ublock origin, nutensor(umatrix), twp, bypass paywalls clean, dark reader, vimfx

XMPP with OMEMO?

korean. I might have to change a few things… I’ll be running some small local campaign at work about degoogling/free software etc and there are surprisingly very few good graphical contents I could find and this looks great.

I’ll get back to you if I actually get to use this. Thanks :)

airvpn seemed nice but i havent tried it.

would you mind if i translate this to my language and use it as a poster?

its just the ip, you can use a vpn

seamonkey but it’s pretty hard to use without much love nowadays with so many incompatible websites. It’s a perfect mail client tho.

Just get Firefox ESR with arkenfox, that should be enough.

I use this and rsync the folder. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.tmo1.sms_ie/

It seemed extremely sketchy to me, most results were from other engines and it was embracing some weird crypto.

It’s good. Never had any issues, and I’m on the free plan.

And then the next screen asks if I want the VPN app to block ads, trackers and/or malware. (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-change-my-privacy-features) I already have Pihole on my network, so I don’t enable those features either.

Those DNS blocklist features are on Mullvad as well. FYI your PiHole won’t work while connected thru VPN, if it does you’re leaking DNS.

you’re right, but startpage is slower than lightweight google :p

It seemed like the Key2 recently got a successful bootloader unlock. There’s no custom rom for it yet but hopefully someone might in the near future. Or you can just debloat the stock rom, but that would be Android 8.1.

Luckily, as of today I can still set my user agent to something like a Playstation or ancient firefox/IE to get a lightweight HTML-based page. The results are in www.google.com/url?q= format but I can use a redirector extension for that.

it just wastes my system’s resource for no gain. imo it’s sufficient to have a proper adblock + js/cookie/xhr whitelist + container tabs.

if you’re really paranoid you can rotate ip address or something similar,

is there anything interesting on i2p? (not sarcastic, genuinely questioning)

all i could find were things easier to get on the clearnet.

just get an older thinkpad and remove the wifi/bt module

run pihole (or something similar) locally behind that vpn

doesn’t old reddit work well enough? they removed the login prompt but it can be restored pretty easily with a userscript (just inject the login prompt copied from the wayback machine)

they are usually about a specific device. These are the few I’m in.

t.me/eureka_roms (Exynos 7884/5 Galaxy phones)

t.me/eliteroms_sexynos (Exynos 5443, 8890, 8895, 9810)

t.me/exynos9820oss (Exynos 9820)

t.me/LGG7V40Customs (LG’s SDM845 devices)

i kinda wanna quit nowadays but android customization channels (custom roms, gcam etc) are moving there from xda nowadays so no choice :(

wish there was some read only tg scraper.

i have that issue as well, sometimes it’s missing results and other times i get the same result repeated on page 2. not sure why that happens, but i guess it’s just a bit buggy.

yeah it works but if you use a local instance you have to compile the extension yourself to include your instance.

i just use my local searxng instance and get results from like 10 engines including ddg, then filter with ublacklist

Not OP, but is this any better than the Island app? I’ve been using that for a long time and it seems to use the same android feature.