Anna

Oh the usual… Nothing

Just VPN is sufficient and don’t get fooled by a lot of VPN adverts. Almost all of the internet uses SSL so even if you directly connect to public WiFi no-one can just snoop on your passwords or anything else. The only thing they will be able to see is the website you are visiting. Same as your ISP whether it’s some telco, VPN, or Google.

I can understand you not wanting to share which website you visit to google but if you are not careful Google will find out one way or the other. Even if you use VPN or Tor

And as already mentioned never do Tor over VPN or VPN over Tor unless you know exactly what you are doing and what are the risk associated with them.

If you are worried about state actors with compromised rootCA and DNS then Tor can help you there but if they are using this to spy on you then just bypassing it can also put you on a list

Um quick question does it know all about my financial obligations and if it sees I’m f*cked does it recommend higher salary???

Another red flag - Telegram channel link for communication. A lot of infostealer use telegram.

Umm… apart from my ARR setup and few specific apps and websites. I use Tor and I2P for almost everything.

And for doomsday scenario I’ve several physical books I love and won’t mind re-reading until the heat death. Also I’ve downloaded several GBs of EPUBs I still have to get to… I think I’ll be alright.

For anyone who got hopeful this is not a bypass for Play Integrity Check. OP is just installing apps from a different app store ment for phones which are restricted from using American tech. Due to this limitation all the app developers know if anyone is installing apps from those stores they maynot have Google Play Services example Huawei. So those app developers themselves are bypassing checking for Play Integrity Check.

If it was the case just of using different app store Aurora would’ve also worked. But it doesn’t because Aurora provides exact same APK as the google play store unlike the other app stores OP mentioned

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

Graphene OS Team has developed quite a lot of other useful features and some of them have even been merged into upstream AOSP allowing others also the benefits. Recent example is contact scope for apps starting Android 17 but it was initially developed by GrapheneOS team long ago.

Pick and learn any programming language. If you know 1 you can read and understand almost all of them.

For open source contributions my approach is, I use almost all the open source apps, tools, etc. And when I want to do something that isn’t supported or if something doesn’t work the way you want you can just check the source code and fix it. I’m not a Kotlin developer but I’ve contributed to several apps I use daily. Usually the community is also helpful if I’ve made a mistake or if something should be done in a different way for a language the PR Reviewer will just point it out I learn something new fix it and send it again.

Me cooking with a clay pot over a open fire

The only reason is f*ck snap and Ubuntu for forcing it onto users

Back in KitKat, lollipop days I was able to restore just data partition using twrp. Not sure if it still works…