No adblocker built in, but Rethink DNS is a great app that will set up a local VPN and do firewall filtering and DNS filtering. There are other apps too and they should all work on any OS.

Personally I self host a VPN and pihole and stay connected to that

Grapheneos can be used almost identically to stock android. You can install google apps and use them or not. The biggest piece of it is the options.

There is no account associated to GOS. You can login to an existing google account etc, just like any android.

GOS has messages for SMS only. It had a Gallery app for photos and a files app for system files. There aren’t many apps it comes with, so getting alternative apps is easy. Mostly via Fdroid (or droidify for a more modern looking app). For a better photos app, I recommend “Aves” For a drive app, a private option would be proton drive. Notes app can be anything you want, but GOS doesn’t come with one. If you want to use google notes you can. I wouldn’t recommend it, but you can. There are lots on Fdroid to choose from.

As for cloud sync, GOS doesn’t do this, but again, you can use any other service you’d normally use to sync. I use Syncthing to sync a folder on my phone to a folder on my PC. That way I can have things like my photos easily on desktop and have backups.

As for app stores, GOS doesn’t recommend Aurora because they don’t sign the apps the provide, but I use it anyways, as it is the best way to get apps without a google account.

You definitely don’t need your own Nextcloud or Homelab. I prefer paying for hardware I own instead of cloud things, but both have good positives.

Also, your questions aren’t stupid their great! You’re just learning about this stuff that that’s amazing. Keep learning.

If I remember CYT does better on Fennic than Mull.

Nock-nock seems to do this. Trying now

Edit: it works great

Edit: Nock-nock has a few too many false positives for me. Website monitor seems to be better.

Hmmm how is Beeper? Isn’t it run on someone’s Mac instead of your own? Is it FOSS?

Again agreed, however some people either won’t switch, or it would be more convenient to just use iMessage

Agreed. However, iMessage is better than sms. And I am trying my best to remove sms from my life

Nice! Thanks so much!

Wow yea this seems really good. And scary. Too bad it doesn’t seem to work with mullvad browser

More of my stats:

Fennec (privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 23301.0

Fennec private tab (privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 20712.44

Firefox hardened (arkenfox + privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 37281.6

Firefox hardened private tab(arkenfox + privacy badger + unlock origin): 1 in 31069.5

Mullvan browser (dafaults with unlock): 1 in 147.48

Fair enough. I’ve had success with it though. I should probably just use the official wireguard not wg-easy

Okay this seems neat. Would this be usable for a home network?

Yea I think intrusion detection is what I want. I’ll have a look at that page, but I may end up just going with pfsense one day.

Ah gotcha. Makes sense. Would something like WatchYourLAN or Pi.Alert be good?

I guess I’m not 100% sure. Which would I need/which would increase security?

Figured it out! I used @rawdatabot and got my account’s ID and replaced channel-1 with it

Edit: also I left the @telegram alone

I figured the “@telegram” meant your @ on telegram, like @Dust0741 or something. No the channel isn’t called chanell-1, I guess I don’t know what a channel is

Okay I may have to look into kodi again. Any recommended skins to make browsing things like Disney+ easier?

Not on graphineos