yeah that seems to be from all the way in 2021 unfortunately. you may be stuck with the browser version :(
I got my 7a referbished for 350. the nothing phone is cool IMO but probably not going to have good support rn for nieche stuff. lineage & divest not having working versions for the phone raises red flags personaly.
if you are anti pixel & $500 is in your price range maybe take a look at the fairphone 4?
honestly I would personaly look into a used option just for pricing reasons. I think the 8 offered additional security benefits though. It may be a while until the 9 drops but that would also be an option.
only as private as you make it. they are required by law when mandated by a warrant to release IP & other (unencrypted) data they have on you. use a proxy to connect & take other opsec measures to conceal your online identity just like other sensitive web browsing activities if you want to use email "privately".
this is really only helping anonymity though, as the email protocol has no built in encryption. unless you are using PGP it really isn't apt for secure communication at all.
session doesnt have perfect forward secrecy. they removed it from signals protocol to make it more easily compatible with their onion routing/crypto network. makes it one of the easiest apps to be "backdoored" if any keys were to be compromised.
while I am by no means an expert on this, my gut tells me that this is probably something to do with "nessecary" cookies vs advertising & tracking cookies. its a common loophole for other policies so I wouldnt be surprised if they had some way of circumventing the normal limitations for tracking because of "fraud protection" or the likes.
looking at the cookie descriptors, all of the 1825 day cookies are used to "store &/or access information on device refreshes". the shorter cookies are the only ones that also mention "measuring advertising & content performance".
oh damn I see sorry u can't get the apps to work I guess I'll do a little digging on my side. in the mean time I hope I've been at least somewhat helpful haha 🙏
I would avoid trying to make sure you use the "official instance" as it kind of works against the projects purpose of decentralizing web requests. pinging around instances helps with avoiding outages as well. you can find active instances here on the uptime monitor.
otherwise, stealth should work just fine if u turn on webscraping mode. I have been using it since the reddit changes with only very occasional issues, as similar to you I have some quams with alternative reddit clients.
outside of sandboxing/limiting android auto via grapheneos good luck.
if you just want audio & your car doesnt support Bluetooth you could use an adapter to take it from Bluetooth to 3.5 aux. if your car is so fancy it doesn't have aux input you can get a Bluetooth to FM radio adapter that will take over one the channels in your car as well.
common aegis W