The first and best measures are not only privacy apps, but a good security education, explaining well the risks and a correct use of the mobile. The biggest segurity hole is ignorance. You can’t avoid with apps the missuse of the Phone by an teen with nonsense in the head. Establishing a strict Kiosk mode on the mobile is not the right way. A localisation app is of course a good idea, also InviZible Pro with permanent enabled DNScrypt is a good protection

The first I remember is Odysee, Vimeo es often used by the Vivaldi blog.

I use PC before MS DOS times and I also used several Linux distros in the past, last Kubuntu and Mint, always in dual boot. But I never saw big advantages above a gutted Windows, but problems with a lot of apps which I needed. Currently I’m on a heavy cleaned W11 which works fast, stable and exactly how I want 100%, why because of this I have to change it, installing another OS? There are no practical reasons for it.

That is the point, but Linux, as said above isn’t for everyone an option.

Comments in the web:

**Linux faces several key challenges that limit its broader adoption and effectiveness: **

1. Software Compatibility Major commercial applications like Adobe Creative Suite and industry-standard business software often don’t run natively on Linux^[1]. While alternatives exist, they frequently lack feature parity or full compatibility with industry file formats.

2. Hardware Support Complexity Device drivers and hardware compatibility remain inconsistent. According to ZDNET, even basic tasks like printer setup can require manual configuration^[2]. Multiple competing package formats (deb, rpm, flatpak, snap) create confusion for software installation^[3].

3. Fragmented Development Focus The Linux ecosystem suffers from too many competing distributions and desktop environments. As MIT researcher Jonathan Birge notes, “It’s downright laughable that an OS with single digit market share would further dilute its market share by having two competing desktops”^[4].

4. Learning Curve Despite improvements in user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu, Linux still requires more technical knowledge than Windows or macOS for many tasks^[1:1]. The command line remains necessary for certain operations, intimidating new users.

*(With this point I am not in total agreement, Windows with its plug & play and intuitive UI only SEEMS more simple, but to remove the bad habits, bloatware, telemetrias and other crap, are required a more advanced user to get it, entering quickly into Comanche territory. I think that Windows need a more advanced user as modern Linux distros) * 5. Support Structure Unlike commercial operating systems, Linux lacks centralized support. Users must rely on community forums and documentation that can be overwhelming for beginners^[3:1]. Enterprise-level support often requires expensive consulting contracts.

6. Market Share Impact With desktop market share around 3%, many software vendors can’t justify developing and maintaining Linux versions of their applications^[4:1]. This creates a negative feedback loop - fewer applications lead to fewer users, which leads to less software development.

Summary: the best OS is allways the one which best fits the individual needs, a perfect OS for everyone don’t exist. Every OS has its drawbacks, certainly Windows the most, but at least it’s possible to fix.

InviZible Pro is a good option. Download from F-Droid

How do you want to read this Brick above without bleeding eyes?

Andi Summary:

How to Upgrade to Windows 11 While Maintaining Privacy and Control

Before You Start

1. Back up all important files to an external drive or cloud storage
2. Verify system compatibility using Microsoft’s PC Health Check app
3. Disable third-party antivirus software temporarily to prevent installation conflicts

Most Efficient Method

1. Download the Windows 11 ISO file directly from Microsoft’s website
2. Mount the ISO by right-clicking and selecting “Mount”
3. Run setup.exe as administrator from the mounted drive
4. During installation, select “Keep personal files and apps” for fastest transition

Privacy-Focused Settings

1. During initial setup, decline optional data collection and analytics
2. Skip the “complete installation” prompts for Edge browser and OneDrive backup
3. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security after installation to disable unwanted tracking features

Maintain Control

1. Move the Start menu back to the left: Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors
2. Restore classic context menus and file explorer views for better efficiency
3. Set up default apps through Settings > Apps > Default apps to avoid Microsoft’s preferred applications

Recovery Options

• Within 10 days of upgrading, you can roll back to Windows 10 through Settings > System > Recovery
• Keep your Windows 10 backup for 30 days until you’re comfortable with Windows 11

Sources:

• PCWorld - How to upgrade to Windows 11: Every option explained
• Prajwal Desai - Best Guide to Upgrade to Windows 11
• PCWorld - How to update from Windows 10 to Windows 11

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I’ll add also WindHawk, which is imperative in W11

Yes, you can use an locally hosted LLM, but these never can be so powerfull as an AI with a lot of servers supporting. We have to difference it, between mere Chatbots, relying on its own database, often outdated and with the tendece to invent answers, and AI supported search engines, like Andi, You, DDG AI and others, which retrieve informations in realtime from the Web. But there is important that these are capable to difference trustworth sources from those which are not. Andi does a very good job here, because compare informations from several sites for the answer.

Use Andisearch, there are zero privacy concerns and it’s apart the most accurate (independent Benchmark)

Wearing an red MAGA hat

Andisearch admitts, among other commands, also !bangs

https://andisearch.com/help/

Andi is 100% free and anonymous, no logs, no ads, no tracking, random proxie, sandboxed results.

Yes, this was the the sense of FOSS in origen, buy not since big US companies, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, META, etc., appropriated FOSS, offering most of their products, even implementing their FOSS APIs in others (see Mozilla). Google with its Google Code and Experiments, Microsoft in Github…this is dominance and FOSS gives them a cheap method in achieving it. I speak of independence of the US market, outside its influences, especially these globalplayers. This is why it is necessary to promote EU products, preferable FOSS, yes, but even if not, it is way better in privacy and user rights, by law, non existent in US products. I am already bored of seeing in FOSS, which requires an account, the poster “Log in with Google”. The time of My little Pony under the FOSS rainbow has gone since time, now it is Google and the US which control 80% of the web and with this hegemony it is urgent to end.

It’s good to name OpenSource alternatives, but currently it’s more important to push generally EU products and services. The EU need to get independent as much as possible from the US IT hegemony. There are published several webs with EU alternatives, eg. this one from Portugal

https://www.escolho.eu/digital/

In this case the only alternative is to use Vivaldi instead of FF forks, it has an own EE2E no knowledge sync in all devices.

Firefox, same as any other Browser, has a local folder with all the settings, bookmarks and passwords, this is the folder which you have to sync with your other devices. Firefox sync don’t do other thing, but with Mozilla and not with Filen.

The alternative to Mozilla sync is eg. Filen, an German Opensource encrypted, no knowledge cloud service. 10GB for free forever, for more see pricing

https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste

The easiest way to stop spam bots (and also spammers), I saw in the past in an Forum, where simply on creating an account, the activation mail was delayed for an hour. So a bot or an spammer, which always work with an disposable mail, which last normally less than half an hour, never recieve it. A normal user for sure can wait for it. The Forum never had problems with spam with this time filter.

Buster works fine for me, but it don’t really solve the image Captcha, but the auditive one, it’s a modified speech recognition. But I think that currently Captchas absolutely obsolete, they can’t avoid bots anymore since long time ago, because with the existing AI out there, a bot can resolve these better than a human. To avoid spam bots there are way better methodes (eg.Honeypots). Captchas are currently only data collection apps.

Nothing new, never thought that Bluetooth is a safe connection, this is why I always use devices with cable (keyboard, mouse, headphones…). It’s somewhat less comfortable as with Bluetooth, but way more safe and stable.

Meta shares data in every country where it works, the same in China as in the US, somewhat less in the EU

Apart of Invidious, also FreeTube, which works with Invidious, don’t work well anymore, it listed the searched Videos, but they are not playable. As workarround I set the SMplayer as extern player, so I can watch the Videos, clicking on the little icon down left of the Video Thumbnail, or open the Video direct in the “Open URL” of the SMplayer. This still works fine, also with the URLs from a lot of other streaming sites. SMplayer is the Graphic interface of the Mplayer. Anyway, Google is killing all front-ends which cut of the Video ads. I think, there is a need to search an alternative to YT (maybe Odysee?)