Traccar was they best solution I’ve going so far. Have you found others?

Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn’t be happier.

Congrats

I just started messing around with it myself. It is possible to mess up your phone, so yet disabling services with adb first, see if you run into problems. Wait like a week. Then remind them.

The cool thing is you can remove a ton of bloat via adb without root. It’s pretty amazing

So? It’s stored in the same folder locally

Can you explain a little bit more about how it will work. I get its a p2p torrent system, but it also looks like a media player? so like direct media sharing? is the plan to share it and store it in a library on the client side so they can watch it later and or share it later?

I could probably help you a bit in testing. I am a linux guy. I dont really know go (not enough to help you code, but enough to maybe trouble shoot). but I could help you test on the distant end.

im not a proton shill, but they have a wallet. wouldnt any paid secure wallet option work? and yeah, i wouldnt trust google either

This is really clever. Not just because it’s prompt injections and security research and funny but what because it really pushes the boundary on how we understand the inner working of transformer layers.

never tried flatpak, snaps were so bad as to never consider non-native installs or just use docker instances when I need to run something weird. so dunno.

whats the use case for a flatpak exactly? maybe im not the target audience???

this was great! I hadnt considered leaked passwords. I already use uniques, but damn if this isnt a great reason to. Thanks

Check this out, its a pretty good view into good practice, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, with recommendations. https://digital-defense.io/

There is so so so much, and they do get caught, and when they do we keep a peek into how invasive they are. As someone who has had to worry about being targeted by intelligence agencies and nation-states, I was completely blindsided by corporate/capitalist surveillance.

for example, look at this action by Meta, where they broke out of security sandboxes and exploited protocols in order to tie your browsing history (even private browsing) back to your identify saved in their databases back in meta land

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/

the amount of data that is being harvested and sold, and resold, is absurd, and the greater threat is not just that they are exploiting you, its that they dont care who the data gets sold to. Bad actors (criminals, etc) can and will purchase information they can use against you.

So, consider the unintentional ramifications of all that info being harvested and available in addition to the intentional ramifications of hyper greed, and couple that with the amount of available compute and you will see that you do not need to be a person of interest, everyone is a data point that can be and will be exploited.

I would encourage everyone to take their privacy seriously.

Just saw this. Feel like the alternate title could have been “When digital privacy went mainstream”, “I was into privacy before it was cool”, or finally “No I am not wearing a tin foil hat!”

hahah, nice. try and message me when you get a chance and ill share my notes.

Think im ahead of the curve on this one, but I applaud you! keep doing it.

or XMPP would work as well

There is a lot, and there are a lot of levels. I am working on this now as well. Escalating from where I was, its a learning process. Too much to type in a single comment/response.

If you would like more info on removing your info from the internet, reducing the amount of spyware on your android phone, de-googling yourself, or limiting how much info you spill while you browse, we can connect and I can share what I have been doing. Ive got plenty I still need to do beyond this, but I am happy to share my lessons learned as it were.

you are not kidding, this one is driving me crazy. no pun intended.

Im working on de-googling as well, from a privacy perspective. I am also looking at Proton for email. for

• google drive I plan to use K drive, https://www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/kdrive
• outlook, thunderbird (already doing so and its 1000 times better than new outlook)
• google maps, comaps
• chrome, duckduckgo browser

trying to think of the others, lol but im tired.

the two I heard about are mysudo.com and privacy.com. I think both are US only. Are they both based in the US? It didnt say on the privacy.com about us page

edit: yes, they are both based in the US.

any non-US based options that offer services to the US?

found it but was super limited. went into developer settings and enabled unknown sources but it didnt change the options. did some searches but cant find any way of really doing anything about it without rooting my phone. so meh.