I’m a bit late but I’ve been running Android with an extra work profile to isolate apps for years. As others mentioned VPNs are a per-profile thing, so you can just use your Insular or Shelter app to install (clone) the VPN app to the work profile. Then just make sure you are always running 2 VPNs (normal profile and work profile).
Anyone reading this: keep in mind that there’s a conflict of interest, the authors of that piece work for a competing technology (a VPN), some of the things they complain about Tor is actually users making simple mistakes or not properly configuring the software (deviating from the safe default settings) and that those things can also happen with a VPN.
I prefer not to have any dickbars, they are kind of annoying and take valuable vertical space, if this is added to Lemmy it should be an option people can enable/disable showing avatars or nsfw content.
I didn’t know about that one, looks great. I could never trust 100% NoScript since this happened, it’s nice to see a good open source alternative.
4GB is too much, I found some Windows 10 laptops with 2GB.
There’s a problem with that. Third party cookies used for tracking aren’t being deleted in your whitelisted sites, there are three and a half solutions for that. You can use permanent containers for each whitelisted website to keep them isolated, you let the new total cookie protection do its job (and hope the heuristics don’t accidentally allow tracking cookies too), (half solution) you block third party cookies and risk being stuck in an authentication loop or (best in my opinion) use uBlock Origin which should block most (if not all) of the tracking websites you’ll encounter.
This is an entirely different thing, temporary containers are kind of “private tabs,” total cookie protection is for people who don’t want to get logged out when they close the browser or tab but still want to be protected against third party cookies (without breaking things that depend on them like being logged in on a Microsoft account).
My old deleted comments don’t show in my profile. They used to but they aren’t there anymore. I can’t remember if they were on this account or my test (u/____) but they don’t show up in either of them (checked logged in with both accounts). It doesn’t matter anyway, they were for testing.
I’d like to know this too because something has changed in the last few weeks. I used to be able to “edit” my deleted comments to see their original text but now they are completely gone from my profile so something has changed recently.
Worse than that, access to your unencrypted dumb phone is generally not needed because it uses unencrypted SMS as the only messaging system. It is also relatively easy for the government or someone with access to the necessary equipment to intercept calls you make with it. If you can live without a phone then go for it, if you need a phone a dumb phone is your worst choice, I think the best you can do is get a device like the Cosmo Communicator and run Linux on it (not the Android that comes installed).
Seems like https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication/ recommends only Signal if you want a centralized service.
If anyone uses F-Droid for the automatic updates make sure you use the official NewPipe repository which updates faster than the F-Droid repository.
DNS adblocking with AdGiardHome (open source on GitHub, better than Pi-Hole because it supports out of the box regex matching and DoH/DoT which means it will also encrypt your queries so your ISP doesn’t mess with them, mine used to do and I don’t trust them).
Hosts adblocking on Android (AdAway) + pointing the Android system DNS resolver to a DoT server.
Firefox (PC) with uBlock Origin, Local Dan and HTTPS mode only so it will stop and warn about any page trying to load over plain HTTP. DoH configured to point to my own adblocking server.
Firefox (Android) with AdGuard extension (it blocks popups and invasive ads on mobile better than uBlock Origin and breaks less mobile websites), Decentraleyes (LocalCDN not available for mobile) and HTTPS Everywhere set to EASE mode to force HTTPS.
All my browsers configured to erase all data (cache, cookies, etc) as soon as they are closed. It’s almost like private mode but it bypasses the annoying popups that some websites display when browsing in private mode. It also means I don’t risk keeping tracking cookies for a long time if some cookie manages to bypass my filters because I close my browser daily.
This is not a 100% fool proof solution but works well enough and doesn’t break too many websites.