It is in Futo’s own F-Droid repo. But there have been license issues so that it is not actually open-source, and I prefer Newpipe (or, rather, Tubular now, because Sponsorblock) anyway.

Less likely to be blocked, both by the censors and by the target websites. Actual flexibility in what obfuscation method to use. Can be a convenient proxy rather than a full-device VPN. Can host other things there, or use it as a static IP to access things hosted at home.

Same, although I use a personal VPS rather than a VPN.

Rethink, for example. Also allows denying an app internet access, if your OS can’t do it by itself.

I also wonder what connections it normally makes and how many)

I wonder what happens if you deny the app internet access? The permission for it is separate from “nearby devices” or “location”. Or use the firewall specifically for it?

Also yeah, the whole situation is messed up, never thought headphones could require an app :/

As someone who currently has a large portion of the Internet blocked - NO. You do NOT want that. This has awful implications and is very much a slippery slope. A lot of necessary info and contacts are on Google - is this bad? Yeah, absolutely, but right now losing access to Google would mean losing access to this information. While blocking the addresses of such a big company, you’d inevitably break unexpected parts of the Internet as collateral. If the people want to use the service - a lot out of habit, a lot because there aren’t alternatives suitable for them - they would use proxies or VPNs (and in my experience - often opening themselves to risk in the process, because they’d go with a random free VPN from Play Store). It is very possible they’d go after the censorship evasion protocols next.

If you really want bans - maybe banning the companies from buying ads, or using Google’s tools for business would be fine. But NOT fragmenting the Web further and strengthening the censorship infrastructure.

Even if you’re not blocking all the external trackers, not giving the engagement and data on Facebook’s sites themselves still matters.

Personally I think he is imaginary. But he is real for Calvin, so this question doesn’t even matter.

Yeah, I get it (barring the fact that literal Facebook is not even accessible from my IP lol). But whether this is useful, depends on who the attacker is. If we’re talking about, say, a data broker - yeah. But would Jake from accounting have such “IP-account” logs?

Good luck, my IP consistently points to an entirely another city.

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amazing

I am using Android until I can find an alternative

You mean you’re considering something like PostmarketOS? Just wonder where people are looking for alternatives.

I don’t think they would at least because the share of people who can use it is not that large. Where I am, only one carrier out of the big four has it, and only Samsung phones support it (Google as well, but they’re not officially sold so not quite as popular).

A blurred house in a row of unblurred ones would attract more attention.

I assumed that when it comes to SMS 2FA, simswapping is a threat much bigger than interception of the contents…

XMPP is very much a valid option nowadays too! Much easier and lighter to host than Matrix, too. I use it with my mom - Conversations is just as easy to use as Whatsapp, and maybe more pleasant.

It seems like where I live, RCS is not supported on all carriers (not on mine) - but most importantly, not on all phones. The one carrier that has it says it only works on certain Samsungs (I guess also Google Pixel, but they are not officially sold, even if not unpopular). So even though they’re not paid separately like SMS, I don’t think anyone would be switching to it from Whatsapp or Telegram.

I had some! It’s the rescue services warning you that the ice is starting to break and you shouldn’t walk on it.

I wonder: would the 1GB Raspberry Pi 3 be okay for this? The more powerful ones are very expensive, $60 is already kind of a lot, so would hope maybe it could work for 1080p video (or 720p m3u streams)?

Edit: have tried by now, and it is indeed just enough for my needs.