How about you stop assuming everyone on the internet lives in the USA?

I imagine a kid who’s smart enough to use a vpn, downloading a bunch of videos, and then selling usb drives to their friends at school, or sharing them via gdrive

Yes, it’s really good! I do think that it can become a bit repetitive towards the end, but it’s worth it for the beginning moments of exploration and discovery. If you haven’t played a similar game like Morrowind before, I’d recommend looking for a guide that would explain character creation and skills. I never played the original, so I am no purist and would encourage you to check out some QoL mods and definitely turn on smaller dungeons in the settings, even for a first playtrough. Have fun, if you decide to try it!

I bought The Farmer Was Replaced yestarday, so I’ll probably be finishing it over the weekend. It’s a cute programming incremental game, but if you have 0 experience with writing code the later challenges might get too difficult

Yeah, we have this unwritten rule in my friend group to never send links to any videos no matter where they’re from. You download the video and send the file

Youtube search results have been garbage for a while now :(

Is NextDNS really a good privacy tool? I use it myself because it’s convenient, but I always assumed that they would collect data about me since it’s a free service

Thor high heels!

They’ve recently expanded the list by a lot. I was able to find every extension that I use on desktop

If I had a Vita, I’d play Silent Hill Book of Memories. I heard it’s a really bad game, but as a Silent Hill fan, I’d still like to try it as it is exclusive to that console.

Also, Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3 on a handheld sound pretty cool

I’ve donated to Signal and the web archive

Is this service paid? If not, how are they making any money? All I can think of is a) selling users data (and lying) b) selling spots in search results, which means they’ll be overrun with malicious links or other useless garbage. I don’t believe they’re just hosting a search engine out of the kindness of their hearts (:

I also recently discovered mpv --no-video [url]. Useful for when I just want to listen to a podcast or something. Sadly, I can’t get it to work with Spotify

But isn’t randomization supposed to give you a different unique fingerprint each time? So yes, you would be unique and easily tracked but only until your fingerprint changes

Yes, it would.

It doesn’t need to be maintained if it still works on the latest update of the browser. Also, uBlock is not a full replacement, if there will be a full replacement that is maintained, I’ll gladly switch

XMPP sounds like a good idea, however, switching to Signal and convincing the 3 contacts I have there to switch as well wasn’t very easy and I don’t think I could pull it off again in the near future.

I hadn’t thought about the keyboard! I use SwiftKey (which I now realise is a terrible choice) from way back before I started caring about my privacy. Do you have any good recommendations? The main thing I need is the three word suggestions to have dictionaries for multiple languages. I use Firefox on mobile as well, with pretty much the same settings and uBlock. I’m not sure what you mean by having Google Play services enabled, as I did say I use the store. Is there a way to use it and have the services disabled? Won’t that mess with banking apps? Also not sure what you mean by android tracking blocklists, but I think my dns blocks ads and tracking. I also don’t get any ads in system apps like settings for example. Tbh, I am a little afraid of debloating as I tried that ages ago on a Sony M5 and after uninstalling the apps, my phone started running insanely hot and slow. I had to put it right next to the air conditioner to be able to use it, reinstalled all the apps and the problem went away :D

Afaik Google Play store and services are always installed as an admin app. I’m don’t think there is much we can do without custom roms

I sorry if I came off confusing, I’m not a native English speaker so putting my thoughts into English writing is a bit of a barrier for me. I guess I’m just looking for people to point out flaws in my setup and have a discussion on best practices while keeping the comfort factor in mind.