The only problem with not deleting all cookies with some automatic tool is it will make it easier to fingerprint you. Anything difference with your browser’s behaviour is fingerprintable.

Also, check your this section from the Arkenfox wiki (made by experts on browser fingerprinting):

🟪 DON’T BOTHER: Cookie extensions

- ❗️Sanitizing in-session is a false sense of privacy. They do nothing for IP tracking. Even Tor Browser does not sanitize in-session e.g. when you request a new circuit. A new ID requires both full sanitizing and a new IP. The same applies to Firefox
- ❗️Cookie extensions can lack APIs or implementation of them to properly sanitize: e.g.
    - ⚠️ [last checked Nov 2024], Cookie Auto Delete even instructs it's users to disable Total Cookie Protection - ⚠️ DO NOT DO THIS ⚠️

        "As of Firefox 86, strict mode is not supported at this time due to missing APIs to handle the Total Cookie Protection [... followed by instructions]"

As I said, DivestOS supports microg. It signature spoofs the latest microg release, enabled with a toggle in the settings.

MicroG actually works on DivestOS. It is “unsupported”, as-in the Dev doesnt want to put any significant time into development for Gapps support.

I would avoid /e/os (and iode) because they are frequently behind on Android security patches. More information here: https://divestos.org/pages/patch_history

Stop paying the CEO so much!

Firefox could by now have:

• Much better anti-fingerprinting for a generalized threat model (RFP is too specialized for anonymity)
• Fission (per-site process isolation) for Android, among other things.
• Integrated content blocking (based on uBlock but with the development power of Mozilla)
• Tab groups ffs
• Native force dark mode for web pages
• Sandboxing support using zypak fork server for Flatpak (currently Flatpak weakens Firefox isolation substantially)
• UI/UX update (hire the talent at Zen browser)

If you liked LineageOS without gapps, than I highly recommend DivestOS. It is a soft-fork of LineageOS with significant security hardening and removal of proprietary binary blobs.

You can disable that. Here are two links that disable that. Add it to Firefox or Chromium through the settings.

Simple, only disables AI answers: https://duckduckgo.com/?kbe=0&q=%25s

Long, disables AI answers and ads: https://duckduckgo.com/?kak=-1&kax=-1&kbe=0&k1=-1&q=%25s

Steps to create a custom DDG search config:

• Visit: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
• Select the settings you want, for example dark mode.
• Click the “Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data” button.
• Copy the link, using my dark mode scenario would yield the URL https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d
• Edit the URL by adding &q=%s to the end, which acts as a placeholder for the browser to replace with your actual search query. Using my example https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&q=%25s
• Last step is add it to your browser. May differ between browsers, but generally look in the search engines tab of the settings.

AMD is easier to use with Linux. Get a rx6700xt or greater.

The Signal server is centralized, but it is also still open source under the AGPL license: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

The Signal server is centralized, but it is also still open source under the AGPL license: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

If you have friends, “Never Split the Party” is a fun random dungeon-crawler game where each party member (4p coop) has an aspect of the game user interface like health or the map. If you split up you lose that UI. (ive never played binding of Issac but it seems like similar genre)

Why?

I dont think so. It would just require some ports open.

Yes, for a number of reasons like keyloggers and screen recorders without root or user warning required.

Piper TTS on Android is great, the project is called Sherpa Onnx. It doesn’t require permissions either.

This is true, the USA is better and it is invading your soul.

The “hype” around XMPP is that it is simple and extensible. The server implementations of XMPP are very performant, especially compared to other protocols like Matrix that fit the same niche. I would like to see XMPP succeed, but what people want is a finished, unified product. Matrix, more so Element Matrix, succeeds in the personal messaging space because it provides a unified experience and a finished product. XMPP has been utilized by thousands of different projects, from Xbox game chats, to Zoom and WhatsApp, but each implementation is different and specialized. Conversations works great as a messenger, I recommend it. Easy to selfhost as well.

QKSMS is abandoned, QUIK is a maintained fork.

Flatpak shouldn’t require a reboot after install. I never have needed on any distro. It takes me about the same time as regular package manager. Odd to say the least.

Application sandboxing is just SO important. If the app isnt available as Flatpak, you could install it normally and use Bubblejail to restrict it.

What specifically don’t you like about it?