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And you’re not anonymous to the VPN itself when using its services because you’re essentially swapping the visibility into your online activity from your internet provider to your VPN provider. That’s fine if your VPN has an audited no-logs policy and runs on RAM-only or full-disk encrypted servers to serve as an extra layer of protection.

GrapheneOS has strict requirements about hardware being secure enough, so if existing Motorola phones were secure enough then they’d already be supported. This is presumably about future devices that Motorola are going to build.

Not one that you like too much, your brain will start associating it with a call instead of the song whenever you hear it elsewhere!

You’re welcome, here is the post I made where it was recommended to me!

By default yeah there are plenty of ads, but it’s an Android device so you do have (limited) power to replace a lot of the ad-showing bits. It’s about simplicity though, if you want more control for less convenience then there are plenty of setups you could run on an RPi.

Surprisingly the latest Chromecast was more adblocking-friendly as it’s actually an Android TV and I could install smart tube on it, my old Chromecast couldn’t block YouTube ads

This is so shit, I love it!