Consider if a theme could accomplish what you want: It seems like they all use firefox under the hood, and if all you want is appearance, you shouldn’t need to change your entire browser. Keeping in mind that a smaller fingerprinting pool is less anonymous, if you care about that.
I haven’t actually used any other than librewolf though, so if switching provides any features you care about, go for it.
This is so cool, yet another great advantage of the Netherlands.
Finding previously existing services is a great idea, thanks for the link. Here’s hoping I don’t get too much spam as a result. (but at least I can block individual customers addresses)
Aren’t AI tools supposed to be bad with adversarial examples? Someone could make an app that generates an image which (independently) appears to be you and also appears to be old enough.
I’m glad they at least tried to make an alternative to the stupid AI estimation. Even if this is hardly any better. I wonder if a VISA Debit card would pass muster, or do they have those in the UK.
Of course, the primary harm of kids not being able to use social media is also pretty significant—but there’s only so much you can do when you’re actually breaking the law. Except switch to dread, I guess.
To the extent that you still need to use standard apps, consider disabling your advertising ID. EFF has a guide to this at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-now
This won’t stop google of course. You should probably also install a firewall, like other people here have suggested. And keep in mind, disabling features entirely is different from not using them. For example, if location services is turned off, then even google maps doesn’t know your location (in theory anyway), whereas if it is merely unused then google will still check periodically.
As far as I can tell, soundconverter can’t read playlists.
Do you know of any zero-knowledge providers that are both (a) trustworthy for my own purposes, and (b) unlikely to go to spam?
Like you said, the incoming messages aren’t encrypted, so “zero-knowledge” is always sort of false advertising. Also, if I have to use some weird client, that isn’t good. I do value convenience, especially for email; chasing diminishing returns just isn’t worthwhile, and if possible I’d like to not use both, as I am now.