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Products and services that hide/remove that tattoo would skyrocket. Tattoo removal places would probably become super rich.

I found this clip of Linus talking about it, but no concrete numbers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MDsJJRNXjYI&t=420

Nice way of leaking your illegal activities lmao

Yes, Aurora is not the ideal solution and Google might be cracking down on it soon. But as long as it works I don't really mind it going through Google, at least I don't need an account for it.

And sadly many Apps are just made with Google in mind because it's so popular, but my hope is that in the future more and more Apps will have at least a Google free option.

Mobian sounds cool, but doesn't seem so promising to me as well. I agree that custom ROM's are not in a good spot right now, but I think it's gonna get better in the future.

I know that many people still rely on Google's services, but speaking from my own experience, it's not hard to ditch them entirely.

I installed LineageOS 2 months ago, and was only missing my banking app, which I installed using the Aurora store and it works without any issues. For everything else I found alternatives which are, admittedly not as good/users friendly as Google's. But I wouldn't say there's no true FOSS phone OS.

Aren't custom ROM's open source? It would be nice if you could buy a phone from big brands with it preinstalled already. That would make it so much more accesible.

Lol I see how that sounds a bit bad. I rewatched the entire thing today, its actually really interesting.

Definitely NileRed for me. Started watching his video about bulletproof wood yesterday and fell asleep after around 17 minutes. It's something about his voice and presentation that makes it really relaxing for me.

I don't think he meant that literally.

If you want to harden Firefox, use ffprofile.com. It makes creating a custom profile very easy, and it should have good defaults. This should provide you with decent privacy and also allows you to remove annoyances like sponsored sites.

Or if you are lazy, use LibreWolf which, as far as I know, basically does just that, but preconfigured for you.

For addons, I would go with: uBlock Origin, CanvasBlocker, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes.

Finally you can test your setup with Panopticlick.

You should consider switching your user agent. It is often used to track and identify you, by sending stuff like OS and browser version.

You can find a better explanation, and your current user agent here: https://whatmyuseragent.com/

I feel the same way. I switched to NewPipe recently, while degoogling my phone for privacy reasons, but I'm still using YouTube when I'm at my desktop. The recommendations are just better at finding new content for me.