You won’t just find your way onto one. It’s a bit of a process and you need to be willing to put in a bit of effort to maintain a good ratio depending on the tracker it can be easy or difficult. If your interested you can check out the wiki attached to this community, that’s were I started also this spreadsheet has been a really good resource for me.

If you dont already I would highly recommend private trackers.

Its crazy how much people put up with it every time I see someone elses browser I ask them why they dont use an ad blocker and I always gets some nothing reply.

Seams cool, but why not matrix since matrix has different instances you can chose from.

It’s a fine alternative. While not super secure it is decentralized which is nice.

The biggest problem I think is that it isn’t very easy to use, I think it’s a better replacement for discord rather than instant messages.

Simplex is probably the safest.

But I would say signal is very safe while being more convenient.

I use biometrics to access some of the apps on my phone. But my home screen requires a password to unlock.

Yeah, my point was that it could be made better eventually it would be safe enough to use.

I could probably have my phone on airplane mode all the time and no one would notice, I never pick up anyones calls to begin with.

Public transport pretty much always works everywhere that isn’t a country town with like 5 people living there, and at that point you could just walk or ride around.

If there is low demand you can start with a small community bus, then increase the amount of buses and lines. Increase the size of the bus. Then maybe build a tram line etc…

I’m not saying your govenment will do this but it is almost always possible and faster, safer and more comfortable. Unless you really enjoy driving or prefer the privacy that it offers (debatable but still somewhat valid) in which case public transport and other viable alternatives to driving is still the only real way to reduce traffic for drivers.

I don’t have mullvadvpn but I use a different vpn that has obfuscation and I have tried every single setting within it but somehow some networks can still detect the vpn no matter what I try. I am not sure how they can do this.

At least by turning on airplane mode they cannot track your location.

Using public wifi with no protections is already pretty secure since most things are encrypted now days. Using a trusted vpn to encrypt all of your traffic makes it almost perfect, since no people in the same network as you can have the faintest clue as to what your doing.

edit: It’s probably not almost perfect but definetly far better than using mobile data.

At this point “uses signal” is all the metadata they need.

And most phones are shipped with software that is often difficult to change.

Way ahead of me

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China is a country that doesn’t care about the individual.

Literally a country dictated by it’s individuals

Yes. I have an s22 and am stuck with it just like you, I would love a google pixel.

I have gone through all the “trouble” of doing all that and it’s definetely worthwhile, you can get rid of a lot of unessesary things. Definetly DON’T sign up for a samsung account, although it will try very hard to make you sign up.

F-droid isn’t a pain, it’s an awesomeness. Everytime you try to download a simple app like a stopwatch or something it’s usually really bad and littered with spyware and ads, the developers who make these apps don’t use the apps themselves. The quality of F-droid apps and other open source apps are so much better while having better privacy.

I guess it could be a decent consideration if I can find a way to anonymously get a sim, not really much point otherwise.