gibson

you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.

it was always free for me but i think i was early enough of an adopter to be grandfathered in on some old setup

not anymore

cock.li but it doesn't encrypt your inbox so keep that in mind.

At least on my phone, rebooting also makes it require PIN

For those who don't remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.

It usually isn't super hard to tell apart randomized junk like this from real human patterns. That is why Tor Browser for example tries its best to make everyone look the same instead of randomizing everything.

That said, for the mere purpose of throwing off the ISPs profiling algorithms, you could make a relatively simple python program to solve this. A naive solution would just do an http GET to each site, but a better solution would mimic human web browsing:

• Get a list of various news sites and political forum sites
• Setup headless firefox or chromium
• Use Selenium or similar to crawl links on each site. Make sure you have the pages fully load and wait a random amount of time that a human would before going to the next page.
• https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/#test-driving-a-headless-browser

If you have no programming capability this will be rough. If you have at least a little you can follow tutorials and use an LLM to help you.

The main issue with this goal is that it isn't possible to tell how advanced your ISP's profiling is, so you have no way to know if your solution is effective.

Feel free to DM me if you go this route.

Just because you can't stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the ones you can.

Unfortunately, its not clear if masks actually stop facial recognition. I think it helps, but not probably not as well as it did before covid.

Yes and no. decentralization is great for a lot of reasons but it does come with downsides. I don't know about you, but i convinced my family and friends to use and keep Signal for years now and i don't think i would have had such luck with Matrix/Element, let alone a p2p app.

I'm glad decentralized options exist and think they deserve more funding and love, however.