Thank you for the tip! It feels a bit sketchy to give it my login info though

You can always re-evaluate your situation later :)

It’s not an all-or-nothing situation, you already have vastly improved privacy :)

Also Germans!

DeepL can take and translate pictures

May I suggest NewPipe (Android) or FreeTube (Desktop)

You can subscribe without an account using third party clients like NewPipe or FreeTube

Then you are affected

For most people just worried about photos I would assume that’s enough

If it’s not fully automatic I won’t stick with it

Touché. But the less the better

Not if you install a degoogled rom :)

Discord locks my account everytime I join a server

You didn’t delete anything. You told reddit to delete stuff, but whether they actually did that is a different question. It isn’t public on their website anymore, but the data might still be lying around on their servers

The only rock is debian, arch has increased

How do UK based VPNs differ?

Thank you for this helpful comment providing insight into a complex topic

VPNs are very effective because they increase the cost of that kind of datasurvillenace of you enough to make it not worth it.

Not really, because you left out a huge asterisk. They are only effective after you have implemented a bunch of other methods to deal with cookies, tracking scripts, finger printing etc.

A vpn on it’s own doesn’t do shit if you don’t auto wipe your cookies after every session for example. Which vpn marketing conveniently forgets to tell you

A VPN can collect the same data as an ISP, and can be subject to the same requests/laws from governments

So you have a specific reason to trust certian VPNs over your ISP. My point was just that VPNs aren’t inherently better than ISPs

Nice try, VPN!

VPNs do little for your privacy, unless there’s specific reason to trust them over your isp

Cameras don’t prevent or reduce crime, that is well known.