A little off-topic, but I think you will get a lot of advice that sometimes contradicts.
Anonymous is a little hard, unless you live somewhere you can buy a SIM card without an ID. Your ISP will always know a fair amount about the data going through your device.
Private and Secure are also hard, with Secure being the topic of security researchers who are able to pen-test devices under different circumstances. If you want a secure device, it might even depend on the manufacturer. GrapheneOS is a good project to follow because they are looking for exploits, as pointed out by tthis recent article.
Private, though, while being hard is something that most people can get a start on.
On a non-rooted phone, you can start by disconnecting as many accounts as reasonably possible, even Google. An Android phone will work without an active Google account. If you need more apps, there are stores like F-Droid or Droidify, as well as Accrescent and Obtainium, and obviously Aurora Store. Do not use any of the "cleaner" apps, many of them contain trackers and bloatware of their own.
Check on https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ to see which apps have trackers, etc.
Get a password manager (Bitwarden), a 2FA app (Aegis), look into the variety of blockers you can get (Blokada, InviZible Pro), begin changing your email client to something like FairEmail or K9/Thunderbird, swap the stock calendar for Etar, watch YT with Newpipe, Piped, or Libretube. Get friends on Signal (Telegram has fans, but I honestly hear more negative than positive about them), and use a different browser (Mull, Privacy Browser).
If you can deal with those changes, then move on to more complicated things. Email with PGP, chat with XMPP, maybe root the phone, etc. For information, you can use adb to "remove" apps, or use the UAD (Universal Android Debloater).
Anonymous is a little hard, unless you live somewhere you can buy a SIM card without an ID. Your ISP will always know a fair amount about the data going through your device.
Private and Secure are also hard, with Secure being the topic of security researchers who are able to pen-test devices under different circumstances. If you want a secure device, it might even depend on the manufacturer. GrapheneOS is a good project to follow because they are looking for exploits, as pointed out by tthis recent article.
Private, though, while being hard is something that most people can get a start on.
On a non-rooted phone, you can start by disconnecting as many accounts as reasonably possible, even Google. An Android phone will work without an active Google account. If you need more apps, there are stores like F-Droid or Droidify, as well as Accrescent and Obtainium, and obviously Aurora Store. Do not use any of the "cleaner" apps, many of them contain trackers and bloatware of their own.
Check on https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ to see which apps have trackers, etc.
Get a password manager (Bitwarden), a 2FA app (Aegis), look into the variety of blockers you can get (Blokada, InviZible Pro), begin changing your email client to something like FairEmail or K9/Thunderbird, swap the stock calendar for Etar, watch YT with Newpipe, Piped, or Libretube. Get friends on Signal (Telegram has fans, but I honestly hear more negative than positive about them), and use a different browser (Mull, Privacy Browser).
If you can deal with those changes, then move on to more complicated things. Email with PGP, chat with XMPP, maybe root the phone, etc. For information, you can use adb to "remove" apps, or use the UAD (Universal Android Debloater).
Statistics: Posted by bbbhltz — 2024-01-15 13:54