uMatrix was awesome. It’s a massive shame it didn’t get any more updates, because it started breaking important sites (like bank authentication) for me just by the addon being enabled even if I turned it off from its own toggle, so I had to switch to NoScript, which is simply worse (far clunkier interface and consistently fails to show all domains).

I got it from the fingers of the woman in blue in the 2nd image

I’m pretty sure apps can’t start until the user chooses to launch them, so in that time you could either disable the permission or turn off your device’s internet. Assuming you need a VPN so you can’t just use NetGuard?

I might be mistaken, but I think on Android you (as an app developer) can’t just launch things in specific other apps, and you can instead only launch a type of action but the user would be prompted to select an app to complete the action with (until the user chooses the default app for that type of action from that app).

I tried and eventually succeeded, though it took ages to figure out where the configuration was wrong. It was something relatively stupid too, iirc. But I still don’t actively use it because I don’t have enough faith in its reliability to use for something as important as email, lol

You can buy dedicated trash bags. They’re thinner, so the amount of plastic material per bag is a fraction of that in shopping bags.

None for the time being, and I don’t know what I should use if I were to need one. I already use Proton for email so it wouldn’t be my first choice to give even more data to one company, even if they still seem good (though their marketing is relatively aggressive, which feels offputting).

“Just don’t be logged in” is not gonna be enough, if the device is the same as you normally use and you haven’t taken extra steps to make sure the device isn’t identifiable. I’d recommend doing this from a public library computer or similar public device.