I don’t think that’s very effective these days. There are so many sources of publicly available information for sites to verify against that this attempt at “poisoning the well”, so to speak, would be drowned out.

Micro G is the worst option as it requires privileged access to your phone. This is the same major privacy issue with the regular Play Store. The only real difference is your shifting trust from Google to Micro G but, you shouldn’t be trusting any third party with that type of access.

Aurora is a decent option as it allows you access to the Play Store without needing to actually install the Google Play Client.

I would say sandboxed Google Play is the best option. You get full access to the play store while still having the protections of a sandboxed app.

A lot of people will offer f-droid as an alternative but it also comes with some big issues. I’ll quote privacy guides here

Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust. Additionally, the requirements for an app to be included in the official F-Droid repo are less strict than other app stores like Google Play, meaning that F-Droid tends to host a lot more apps which are older, unmaintained, or otherwise no longer meet modern security standards.

GrapheneOS and Techlore both have solid communities to use to learn about privacy but, there is a ton of intermingling between them and Privacy Guides so you may not like it.

r/privacy is a bit more casual but its mods are terrible and there is a ton of disinformation to sift through.

I think easyoptouts is worth it ($20/quarter). It has like a 70% success rate which will decrease a ton of grunt work for you. There are a lot (well north of 150+) of these data sites to try and manage.

Just because you remove data once does not mean it won’t be put back on the site later which means you need to make a habit of constantly rechecking the sites if you chose to do it yourself.

I would also recommend signing up to have Google alert you when your name comes up in searches. This will make it easy to remove them from Google and let you know what you still have to remove.

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I would just caution you to make sure the changes you make to Mullvad don’t change its fingerprint otherwise its kind of moot to use it over a privacy configured version of Firefox.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

You can at least self host this option. Still a lot of the same privacy issues any type of tracking software is going to have.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding what you need.

The most private way to buy Monero would be using https://haveno.exchange/ (no KYC, transactions over Tor)

In terms of wallets I think Feather or Cake Wallet is the way to go.

I figured it out…

Here is what I did (I am sure there are more efficient ways)

1 - I left the I-am-PUID-0 setup how it is. What I mean is after I went through the guide and got it working I did not change anything to get RDT working.

2 - I created a new docker-compose for RDT that uses the rclone mount from the I-am-PUID-0 guide. I did this because when I had them combined into one compose, RDT would work but Zurg did not. If I have them separated as different docker setups they both work.

2a - Make sure you understand what the Download Path and Mapped Path are in RDT. The Download Path is the path inside the Docker container where files are downloaded. Whereas the Mapped path is the path on your host that is mapped to /data in the container.

My docker compose for RDT is

# version: "3.8"

services:
  rdt-client:
    image: rogerfar/rdtclient
    container_name: rdtclient
    stdin_open: true # docker run -i
    tty: true        # docker run -t
    volumes:
      - /pd_zurg/mnt:/data  # Ensure this matches the pd_zurg mount
    environment:
      - RCLONE_UID=1000
      - RCLONE_GID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York  # e.g., "America/New_York"
      - DOWNLOAD_DIR=/data/downloads  # Specify the download directory
    ports:
      - 6500:6500
    devices:
      - /dev/fuse:/dev/fuse:rwm
    cap_add:
      - SYS_ADMIN
    security_opt:
      - apparmor:unconfined
      - no-new-privileges
    restart: unless-stopped

With this setup Zurg is grabbing anything I download from Real Debrid and adding it my Plex server. RDT via Sonarr is grabbing whatever shows I tell Sonarr to download via Torbox. All that has to be done is add the downloads folder as another library in Plex and voila.

I am sure you could configure this to do more, I just wanted an option to grab shows on demand and make use of currently having two active debrid services. My use case is a bit odd and most likely not optimal for most but, hopefully this helps somebody.

Its a bit odd to see an employee of a company that has always had a terrible privacy policy now be suddenly alarmed.

If you need a torrentleech invite hit me up

I may have a speed.cd invite as well if interested

Interesting. Could be I’m attributing the wrong factor to what’s causing the ban.

It was for me, I got a notice of a refund just a few hours after the account closer email.

Again I just discovered this and don’t want to come off like it’s a for sure thing.

In terms of payments methods, patreon seems to accept virtual cards, which makes it easy to avoid using the same payment method or tying any part of your identity to the transaction.

I got a “no package found matching input criteria” using this method.

It also appears to only offer version 1.0.15 whereas the newest version is 1.2.10

If I’m not mistaken, 1.0.15 was the last windows / Mac version released before the dev paywalled them.

Thanks to whoever 🙏😁

https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer

If you look at the releases they are just translation fixes. There hasn’t been any real development in some time.

Originally I just wanted to try a FOSS media player and found Clementine to be the most reliable when it came to importing music and reading the tags. This was especially true when grabbing old music files off an iPod then importing them.

When I realized clementine is basically dead, wanted to see how strawberry compared.

Side note, I enjoy the outdated aesthetic. 😋

I would probably use MediaMonkey if I was going to go the non FOSS route.

I don’t think that’s true, correct me if I am wrong though. There are still other requirements you have to follow for the GPL3 license if you wanted to distribute it legally.

I’m a bit surprised that this request is creating so much friction. This to me, is just a run of the mill “help me find a free download of this software” request that shows up all the time here.

I’m not comfortable trying to build this myself. I am happy to just use the inactive Clementine media player this is forked off of if people are really so offended by my request.

I totally understand why the dev wants to be paid, I’m just not going to be the one to do it.

To each their own.

I think its reasonable that a one man dev team wants a bit of money for their time. They gave good reasons as to why and as others have said you could compile it yourself. I just don’t know how and am a bit intimidated by the tutorial.

To me, personally, paying for this type of program when my use case is very casual, isn’t worth it to me.