First of all, thank you so much for generously taking the time for reading and answering all of this in such expert manner – I didnt expect this at all!
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thanks for the heads up, docs suggestion submitted!
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Login without SIM PIN: My understanding is that the setting you mention would save the PIN in the device and automatically send it to the SIM on startup, causing the device to log into the celltower. What iOS does it allows the user to cancel the PIN prompt and just not use the SIM. As far as I understand it, that way the cellular network won’t be notified of the location of the device if cellular service is not needed by the user.
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Calyx Datura looks super interesting. Based on the few screenshots I found, at first glance it doesn’t seem to allow fine-grained settings for each target endpoint though, like Little Snitch, NetLimiter or NoRoot Firewall would. But if it does, that seems like a great opportunity for a collaboration between the /e/ and Calyx projects.
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It’s difficult to check without acces to logs (might have to install No Root Firewall or finally get a Raspi with AdGuard Home at some point), but from a look at that list you linked, some extremely common tracking URLs such as
facebook.net,graph.facebook.com,app-measurement.com,firebaseremoteconfig.googleapis.comand so on don’t seem to be on the list, I’m not sure what’s going on there.
In general, there seems to be a discrepancy between what Advanced Privacy catches and what Exodus/App Lounge lists in terms of trackers for other applications as well (I tried with the extremely tracker infested SwiftScan for example). This could also be on the Exodus side, but the discrepancy between the listed trackers could weaken user trust in Advanced Privacy if it appears to block fewer tracker than the app supposedly contains. -
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Great, exciting to see offline notes coming!
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and 11. Browser: I agree, and that’s why I use Fennec with addons as my main browser now, but regular users won’t know about things like third party browsers, uBlock and Decentraleys. Essentially, I think we agree the default situation could be better. And I have yet to find a replacement for ClearURLs, which blocks tracking through URL parameters, but it’s already pretty much the most privacy friendly mobile browsing experience out there.
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Mail folders: The setting in Mail/K9 that I found just seems to hide subfolders without an obvious way to access them, but I found this issue in the K9 bug tracker, so it seems to be a common problem that will hopefully be addressed eventually by upstream and integrated by the /e/ team.
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- System language: Searching for the word for “language” in the system language only reveals
System > Language and Input, the rest doesn’t seem relevant (text to speech etc.). There are options there to add languages and change their orders and manage keyboards, but nothing I can find to change the actual GUI language for the system interface. I’m really questioning my sanity here.