Bank datas are not public. Even if Google knows your physical direction (Google Maps. weather apps!), same as your ISP and gov know it, it’s not public. but if data broker have it and any user know it, than it is. That is the risk if other users know all your data, like family and friends have it in their agenda online, often also with your photos in their mail or social network. Google at least permits to edit, delete and take out all your data in it’s dashboard (My Activity when you have an account, eg, YT), but not possible in Facebook, all data and images posted in Facebook are property of Facebook (see TOS), despite several high fines in the EU because this.

Your family or friends don’t have your direction, mail, phone, personal datas?

Well, as said, except friends and family, because a simple reason, not only because you like these, but all people which, eg. in Fakebook or WhatsCrap have your mail and other data stored, expose and tag you, because with it Fakebook also know your data and can track you or sell it to data brokers…

I convinced my Family and some friends of the importance of privacy, other, well, the Darwin award. It’s not possible to do more than advice the importance online on social networks, each person must be responsible for their own actions.

Amputation isn’t the way, misleading is. They receive your data, but wrong data, there are always several possibilities to blur your profile by apps and also by your activity.

No, but anyway it’s not correct that GPS function only works in one direction- without GPS, location is made with triangulation fron Cell Towers, which give an aprox locatiob. With GPS on they can find you with a precision of few meters. Not possible if GPS works only in one direction and also not slow, if not, an navigation app wouldn’t work.

Yes, this what the people think, a Smartphone is always locatable ⨦50m, except you switch it off

Except when you buy something in Amazon. Your can see your home also for sure in Google Street View, same as you are even in YT and webs with open life cams

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=open+life+cams

Surveillance is big business for big corps, they put it even in your home and your pocket (Alexa, Siri, GPS, smart TV, smartwatches, smartphones, credit cards, discounter apps…). Only leaving your home, going to the shop, in every city you are at least in half a dozend cams. Privacy nowadays is an illusion.

LibreOffice is used since years in Spain in companies and administrations

Pirating Adobe and MS products is a practice of Nerds which thought they were hackers, since the existence of alternatives which make useless the piracy of this products.

Valid

Well, there is no lack of good OpenSource Office suites out there, most made in Europe, LibreOffice, Calligra, OnlyOffice, CryptPad, Euro-Office, ZetaOffice. Collabora Office, Murena Workspace…

This is their Homepage, there you find all info. The other I posted was the Page for the workspace. Murena is a whole infrastructure of services, hard- and software. all privacy centred, green energy, collaborations from third party in Murena are NextCloud (Germany), for the Cloud service and FairPhone (Netherland). All services are OpenSource, nothing shady in it.

Murena (Mail, Cloud, Workspace, Vault, Galery, Office suite, Tasks, Calendar, Notes, Phones (FairPhone), e/OS, e/Os for kids), OpenSource, encrypted, made in the EU (France)

You can read the technical data in the homepage or in Github, AFAIK an forked YT API (Local API), you can also use the Invidious API, like FreeTube, if you want in the provider settings.

Yes, sadly, but only small parts. Nowadays there are lot of FOSS which are made with the help of AI. But there are still differences between “with the help of” and entirely Vibe coded with a prompt, here not the case. It’s in Beta and in active developement.

But it isn’t based on Invideous, which fails too often to load the Video, because YT actively block it. This client use another system and apart I put the SMplayer as extern Player.

Nobody say it. When you have one which fits your needs, there isn’t any reason to switch.

As said, ad block, sponsor block, encrypted, suscription import, download, no fingerprint …all what you want, see features, FOSS.

Nice, there is also Minipaint which I use online in the Browser in Desktop and Mobile.

https://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

I use Krita on desktop, in mobile it’s not so good.