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.

amazeballs, thanks!

It didnt for me. I installed Comaps from fdroid the other day, and it didnt come up on androidauto. I guess I could try installing it from the app store and see.

I just got implemented it a yesterday. Let me check out pangolin. Im just running the traccar server instance in docker on an old laptop and connecting through tailscale at the moment. need to look into a FOSS vpn probably. WIP XD

FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.

Will check it out, thanks!

I don’t use it. But sometimes you may find a need to read or search for something that is only on there.

exactly. I have kids. I got it to keep them safe. had it up till today, so for years and years. pisses me off to no end. I will find a FOSS self hosted solution. There has to be one. It may not be friendly, but it has to exist, lol.

You are right, I mean, everything thats free isnt free. I am just radicalized now by how awful everything is and how invasive everything is and so I see it and I share it.

Figured since this is an app that ppl use for children and what not that this community would want to know.

I have heard that Ukraine is a crazy fascist state. This seems to support that.

Looks fantastic, great work!

I will also say that what I have listed is for my known digital foot print. If you catch my drift.

You are right. It’s the choice I’ve made. I’m decided that I would rather have the lock down because I no longer think that being anonymous means anything. It’s my opinion that due to the rise and ease of apply AI/ML and computational access we are all data points. So it’s no longer a matter of blending in.

TLDR, I weighed the two and chose this

They aren’t open. But yes. It would be if they were. The are open within my VPN. :)

Can you explain that?

sure thing, here you are

services:
  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    ports:
      # DNS Ports
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      # Default HTTP Port
      - "8082:80/tcp"
      # Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate
      - "8443:443/tcp"
      # Uncomment the below if using Pi-hole as your DHCP Server
      #- "67:67/udp"
      # Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP server
      #- "123:123/udp"
    environment:
      # Set the appropriate timezone for your location from
      # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones, e.g:
      TZ: 'America/New_York'
      # Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned
      FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'false cat call cup'
      # If using Docker's default `bridge` network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'all'
      FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
      FTLCONF_dns_upstreams: '127.0.0.1#5335' # Unbound
    # Volumes store your data between container upgrades
    volumes:
      # For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file
      - './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
      # Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true'
      #- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
    cap_add:
      # See https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
      - NET_ADMIN
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time
      - SYS_TIME
      # Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time
      - SYS_NICE
    restart: unless-stopped
  unbound:
    container_name: unbound
    image: mvance/unbound:latest # Change to use 'mvance/unbound-rpi:latest' on raspberry pi
    # use pihole network stack
    network_mode: service:pihole
    volumes:
      # main config
      - ./unbound-config/unbound.conf:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:ro
      # custom config (unbound.conf.d/your-config.conf). unbound.conf includes these via wilcard include
      - ./unbound-config/unbound.conf.d:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d:ro
      # log file
      - /srv/docker/pihole-unbound/unbound/etc-unbound/unbound.log:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.log
    restart: unless-stopped

I am relatively new to docker as well tbh. I did a lot with virtualization and a lot with linux and never bothered, but I totally get the use case now ha. just an FYI, if you use docker on Windows it runs slower as it has to leverage the Windows subsystem Linux (WSL) and a slightly different docker engine (forget which one). So linux is your best bet. If you do want to use a full VM I found Qemu to be the best option for least resource usage.

Yes, you can give fake info. I would say thats kinda the next step. Harden your browser and associated tech stack so you are secure. Then provide fake data that is generic enough so that it blends in. firefox or chrome standard agent, windows 11, etc.

for example https://deviceatlas.com/blog/list-of-user-agent-strings