You can easily get around your country’s restrictions using private DNS. Go to your browser, search for secure DNS and choose any provider, preferably anything that’s privacy-focused.

And btw move away from every Opera product.

I get this page all the time idk why. I thought it was startpage’s issue.

searxng is awesome.

Only thing is that instances go down from time and it gets frustrating. I am not geeky enough to host an instance myself. So I just keep hoping one instance to another which is also not very convenient. How do I make most of searx?

I’m assuming all these privacy forks are pretty much expected to be ai-free

This is a very basic feature, you have a lot of options to choose from like the other comments have suggested. I use Heliboard personally with glide typing.

App. I don’t have any Google account signed in my browsers.

Yes I’m logged into Youtube using mircog

I mentioned in the post that I’m using privacy respecting FUTO keyboard

Huh? It’s not? I don’t use any ai features. Infact, I have uninstalled Google app using Shizuku.

No it’s not. I can’t really prove it but I just know when Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happens. This is a case of Youtube tracking me because a video on such topics, surrounding that terms, can’t really just happen on my feed, twice.

Android running coloros

the YouTube app still tracks your video watch preferences and such

Yes I know they track users but I want to know how were they able to track me here in this case.

No, it’s not.

What does this mean?

Someone needs to answer this

Nooooooo Mull is dead now? It’s my default browser.

I hope someone picks it up and forks it like we have Cromite for Bromite.

I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).

These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.

Downloaded it. It’s crazy how its not really that far behind gmaps.

It is explained in their github.

“Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️) library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available can be extracted from GApps packages (“swypelibs”), or downloaded here (click on the file and then “raw” or the tiny download button)” https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard#:~:text=Glide typing (,tiny download button)

In the app, you go Advanced > Load gesture typing library > Select your downloaded library.

Recently I too have made a huge change in move towards degoogling and replaced Gboard with Heliboard. I never thought I’d be able to replace Gboard because I use gesture typing a lot. Heliboard doesn’t come inbuilt with gesture typing but you have to import from closed source(?) data which is just a one time import (would like to know more on this one from someone more knowledgeable). So far, it has been great!