I pay for 404 media and a few others! I still use this extension for everything else

Crazy how to me why this is not more widely known. Best solution.

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Read the thread I linked it’s a near universal opinion on Lemmy

This was actually very helpful perspective thank you

FYI I recently have been looking into this and from what I’m told by Lemmyers it’s actually basically pointless to use encrypted messaging on normal Android because Google has full and complete access to the entire device.

Might as well use whatever app is convenient and assume it’s public or message from Linux

To be clear I said “using F-Droid for all apps”.

But other comments are saying the exact opposite, that Google has full and compete access to the device and its hardware at all times.

So just to confirm the answer to my question question: Its pointless to use encrypted messaging on an Android device?

Someone at Google could hear what a device’s microphone is picking up at all times?

Odd. Signal notifications absolutely include the content of the messages received.

Neither, some manufacturers modify Android considerably. By “stock” I mean essentially what is on Pixels and many other devices, but not for example, Samsung.

What app are you using? I like cdisplayex for comics. Kavita is basically just a file host and progress syncer

You could do a MiTM with a https proxy and look at wireshark to see what it sends.

Surely a professional must have looked into this by now?

Also I don’t see how Google wouldn’t be able to read Signal messages if they have full unstoppable access to everything? If the user can read it, surely Google can too?

Thank you! Location and search history are particularly troubling especially when a user is not even using Google to search. Can Google still see contacts if not using their contacts app?

Let’s say the user is taking no other precautions. What information is being shared to Google with stock android?

Whether you need to have the absolute highest level of protection against Google is really something only you can determine.

Yes that’s what I’m trying to determine lol but I haven’t been able to know what it is Google has the power to do with stock android.

Thank you for the link to the article!

Understood (I think) so just to be clear, you are saying Google has the power to collet:

• All signal Messages
• Device Location at all times
• Anything displayed on the screen
• Audio around device (microphone) at all times
• All files on the device

Is that accurate?

I really like CasaOS and if you’re just getting started then it’s really friendly. But if I were to start fresh today I would probably go YunoHost because it seems to have the biggest community around it.

Haven’t heard of Cosmos but it looks interesting and seems to have some features like reverse proxy baked in that would otherwise need a container like nginx proxy manager. It doesn’t seem to have very many pre-approved apps however.

The simplest way is to get the gluetun app (on the BigBearCasaOS app store), get it set up with your VPN, then in qbittorrent do this (with the port):

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You can do the same thing on Prowlarr in the “proxy” settings. Radarr and Sonarr have a similar Proxy setting but you don’t really need to put those behind the VPN there.