you should swap Shazam for the open source “Audile” :

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mrsep.musicrecognizer/

Debian Stable ± Flatpak gets best of both worlds

crypt.ee

not just its origin, but the trackers embedded within:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/427597/#trackers

DivestOS:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#divestos

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

For the OS: Debian

Hardware: a modern thinkpad

You too!

Fair enough - we are agreed at least then that the default android os is awful for privacy.

Then its no longer stock?

Ive recently managed to do this;

Settings> Network & Internet> Hotspot & Tethering> Allow Clients To Use VPN

What I don’t understand though, doesn’t using mullvad automatically set their own DNS?

Stock android is definitely enshitified - but there is still hope with custom os’s

Had a similar issue as did one of my friends with pixels, which is unfortunate as grapheneos is one hell of a operating system.

After having 2 different pixels break (planned obsolescence) I ended up settling for a fairphone (which I can easily repair and replace parts myself with e/os - but divestOS also looks promising.

Debian stable + Flatpak

Agreed.

For any (k)ubuntu refugees, do as I did and switch to Debian!

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Would flatpak mitigate this?

Exactly the same issue with me, I bought it on Good Old Games when I used to run windows as I love the premise of GOG, a similar ethos to Linux of actually owning software - but steam proton is just infinitely more practical.

Settings / Audio & Video / Enable both: “Use HLS” and “LBRY HLS”

I’ve also had issues with brave search on mull, whenever it decides It to check if I’m a robot it says that mull is missing a requirement