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Do you really not have prepaid sim cards in the US? that you buy with 5 bucks and it lasts one year, and then you just top it up for another 5? Those carriers are really milking you good over there.

If there is a setting to delete advertising ID (somewhere in privacy settings), do that. That will solve the most stuff and there's not much more you can go. If you disable the ID all other apps dont know who's data they are collecting, and google will figure out who you are anyway.

I am using /e/OS/ and their App Lounge does the updates automatically, unlike Aurora Store/Fdroid, so it seems possible

its terrible we are dependant to this point on one company

yeah this is terrible. what is curious to me is why those 90% of vendors do not come up with an alternative. they are the ones who make the playstore what it is, if they pull out, that store is finished. Huawei has their gallery, maybe it will start with fragmented stores and consolidate later. it would be nice to see some kind of open marketplace like fdroid to be developed also for non FOSS apps to be introduced as an alternative. i am sure whatever is better for all parties involved will eventually win.

yeah never used that to be honest, I guess I have a reason to check it out. Still, to reach people a newsletter straight into an inbox is better. What RSS is recommended?

Would be nice if it was possible to subscribe to en email to receive this blog automatically. Also, would be nice to post youtube links via piped or some other front-end app, since its about privacy :)

The video you posted 100% proves my point. Nothing in the video is security related, Its all privacy points. Getting attacked by scammers, phishing emails, phone calls etc are privacy threats, because you provided your main email, phone number etc where you should not/did not have to. I am saying again privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Please recognize that privacy and security are different things, people obsess with security when its a smaller threat to them.

Non of the threats in the video would happen if people didnt share their lives, emails, phone numbers etc all online in plain sight. Non of the threats required an attacker to use a vulnerability to enter into pc/phone/network etc.

Privacy - use email aliases for different websites, different phone numbers for 2FA, do not use social media or at least do not post all your life , real identity, email and a phone number on there etc

Security - dont use no longer supported software, use an offline password manager, you still have no chance against 0 day vulnerabilities

/for a good measure, i copied the link you posted and entered into piped.video, example of privacy.

Just dont stop at starbucks one morning and send those 5 bucks to Signal. One coffee a year will make a difference. I have my rocket emoji already.

Good info. I use e/OS on my old Samsung phone as a daily driver. I consider the phone to be a communication device, so have just couple of messenger apps there. All else is done on a PC so dont consider the security to be an issue. But its good to be aware of it. However, I think privacy is orders of magnitude bigger thread to a common person than an attacker spending resouces and targeting a random person. Sure, someone could attack me, but to get what? While google attacks privacy 24/7.