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I have the option to see hidden files using Material Files (won't let you look inside Android folder tho); if you need something more heavy duty there's Ghost Commander. Both are available on F-Droid. There's also Files from GrapheneOS, which might be available on the Play Store, but not sure about that one.

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Well, they spoke with the EFF which made Privacy Badger, so maybe that's why. They did the password thing with the dice, tho, which I guess is good.

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That's good to know, thanks!

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

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Before answering your first question (I'm actually not sure how to answer! I'll have to think about it 🤔)--my laptop has wifi, which transmits and receives radio waves to/from my router; my router is connected to a cable (broadband cable? I guess? Not DSL at any rate), which is connected to the internet (and there's also a MODEM in there somewhere too). My laptop doesn't have the ability to connect by mobile data which uses, I guess?, cell phone towers, but my smartphone can use both. So they're two different systems is I guess what I'm getting at, and I was never clear on how or if a VPN provided any sort of basic privacy if it was only using cell towers. This is a potentially really dumb question (the head injury doesn't help 🤕), but remember, William Gibson used to think that computers were powered by these gleaming magical crystals (or so he claims), before he looked inside one and discovered that it was basically just a floppy plastic record spinning around really fast.

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✔HTTPS 👍

✔VPNs 👍

I thought DNS over HTTPS (DoH!) was not recommended for some reason . . .
My VPN provider claims to be using its own DNS servers.

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Can you make a flowchart (or maybe there is one already) that shows what platforms can interact with others and how? Sort of kidding, but maybe not. I really like the idea of the Fediverse, but it does seem to have a bit of an "apples and oranges" problem with the different platforms. Hopefully an issue that's being worked on.

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Thanks! I only wish I could use "Bypass Paywalls Clean" on Mull; even if I enable the Iceraven addons it just gives me "Bypass Paywalls for Firefox" which isn't as effective.

EDIT: I was also slightly alarmed recently to discover how many cookies Fennec was retaining; I'd like to be able to keep the one for BH so I don't have to log in every time, and maybe a few others, but not if I have to keep all of them.

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Cookie whitelist?

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Excellent! Thank you very much!

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Doesn't quite cover all the bases, but there's this: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb

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Thank you!🙂

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https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d422a3dc-7e83-4dc9-a832-d94ac991b100.webp

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Wondering about this too 🤔

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Could you expand on that?

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Proton Notes?

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I don't think they said what flavor of Linux in the article.

Email service that integrates well with Thunderbird?

I hope I'm not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I'm looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux desktop...

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Does Calengoo integrate with Thunderbird?

Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

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@helenslunch, sounds like you're a Linux user; does any paid version of the desktop client have dark mode . . . ?

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As far as I can tell, the Linux desktop client doesn't have it yet, but has been promised.

EDIT: Ok, duh, on Linux Mint under System Settings>Themes>Settings>Miscellaneous Options, Dark Mode I selected "Prefer Dark" and voila: Dark. Proton's the only app I have that that setting seems to have any effect on . . .

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Could you tell me where the setting is? I haven't been able to find it.

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Revisiting this, may I ask where you got the Typewise Pro apk, and also is it safe?

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Thanks! And, uh, you're confident that this is safe? Sorry to ask again, just need reassurance I guess.

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