Would be nice if it was possible to subscribe to en email to receive this blog automatically. Also, would be nice to post youtube links via piped or some other front-end app, since its about privacy :)

Nimarata Randhawa, using a pseudonym Nikky Haley wants people to use their real names? interesting..

I recommend this video from Rob Braxman titled Why an Antivirus Does Nothing for You, just came out recently: https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=mE7CCZCgRB8

Nice. Sent from x220

For privacy I dont think there is much difference between AOSP based rom and Graphene.

They push out the competition, apps that you install from collecting all the data they can. Harvesting data is becoming more centralized.

NetGuard is a good app to block internet access to apps you dont want connected to the web.

The client side scanning of contents of your phone is the most 1984 thing you will hear.

Is that bad? I am trying out Organic maps now, but was usong Magic Earth before.

The thing is that today you dont even need access to the coversation when you have metadata. Imagine, a woman calls a number of center for planned parenthood, is on the phone for 20 mins. Then she calls a number of her gyno doc for couple mins. Then her phone is located at that gyno doc a week later for 2 hours or whatever it takes. Do you need to decrypt the conversation? You already know what was discussed.

Nothing from Meta, Google, Microsoft is good. It might be encrypted, but the apps suck everyrhing they can from your device and connect it to your real identity you have on FB, IG, Gmail emails...

Its most probably not that X has access to your phone. I believe since some older version of android, all apps are sandboxed and there are rules to what they have access to (Android Run Time, SELinux). How this works IMHO is you are using a normie (google) android phone. You have an advertising ID assigned to it (you can find it in the setting under Privacy/Marketing), which is visible to apps, therefore the Feeder app sees it and sells the data of what you are looking at tied to the ID, someone buying it for a campaign on an exchange and uses it for marketing on X, which shows it to you based on that same advertising ID because it can see it also. To avoid 95% of tracking like this, use a degoogled android phone. In case you use iPhone, there is nothing you can do.