This one is open source and works for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/image-picka/ It’s a bit inconvenient though, as it will save to a tar archive by default. You can change that in settings.

That sounds like the best way to do it. I can link to the piracy websites so people can find old niche movies with copyright expired or something.

Thanks. I’m aware of the theoretical risks and how bad cloudflare is for the internet as a whole. Sadly, I use Cloudflare tunnels for a different subdomain. While I would like to move to some alternative in the long term, it just works™ right now and I don’t really have the energy to touch it.

That seems way beyond my threat model, but maybe I don’t fully understand the risks.

Cloudflare cannot track visitors of my website, the only malicious thing they can do is to tamper with my DNS record. While they are almost surely an intelligence asset, that would greatly damage their reputation for negligible gain (my website is a static site with like 2 visitors including me).

Am I correct, or did I miss something? I don’t have an email address on my domain, so that’s ok.

Thanks, I fixed it. To my defense, I’m sick and my brain has been a bit fogged in the last few days.

Does this apply when I use it only for DNS? No proxy, none of their weird services, just DNS records…

I looked into existing Czech court cases and it’s a mess. People got sentenced just for sharing links, but also the Czech Pirate Party ran a regular pirate series streaming website with embeds and everything and won the case against them.

I could do it anonymously for sure, but I ask because I would like to post it to my website.

I highly doubt any judge would take that into account. You can probably get away with listing the pirate websites “so people can block them”, but I don’t think you can do that with a full step-by-step tutorial. I would be very curious about a precedent though.

I also teached my closest family members to pirate movies and shows and it has had the exact opposite effect - no more calls to help them download a movie they want to watch on a flight tomorrow :)

I think it might help many people and I can just state that I’m not providing any support. I don’t have comments on my website yet, and they will be via Mastodon anyways, where most people already know this stuff. If somebody does the work to find my email, I can just ignore them ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Image Toolbox has a collage maker tool.

I use RethinkDNS app to block ads. It’s VPN based, but you can point it to any WireGuard tunnel and it still blocks ads. It even has split tunneling.

Do I miss having root? Yes. Would i switch back? That’s complicated. Yes and No, but really dependent on how Google proceeds in their endeavors of trying to lock everything down.

Exactly! I think most people who have left root share this view. I wish to see it change over my lifetime, but I don’t have much hope given the current state of things :(

GrapheneOS has a full system backup, but I haven’t used it yet.

Having access to all data feels great, but I personally used it only once: to move history and open tabs fom one firefox fork (Mull) to another (IronFox). It came very handy tho.

I completely agree on the system tweaks part.

And for an adblocker, I wonder what do you use? It was a big reason to root for me, but I switched back to RethinkDNS (DNS blocking using the VPN slot) after a while. The reason was that I use pretty aggressive filters, and need to unbreak apps often. With ADAway, I needed to start logging, then do the problematic request again, look in the logs, allow the domain, and then reapply the filters to my system.

For blocking individual apps from accessing the Internet entirely, I couldn’t find a good solution, although I feel like it must be possible with root. GrapheneOS, on the other hand, allows you to toggle the internet permission like any other.

Thanks, I fixed the link, but the old version still seems to be cached. It should be https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1173-taskmanager-real-killing-of-processes/9 And yes, I restart my phone pretty often, and I think it also restarts automatically at night, so re-enabling Shizuku every time is something I don’t want to deal with. Another alternative I forgot to add to the post (and now I will) is this app: Force Stop Helper. It’s a simple list of apps with following features useful for my usecase:

• Clicking on an app takes you to it’s system settings page where you can enable/disable it with one click
• You can pin certain apps to the top
• Disabled apps are shown greyed out and marked as disabled

Using this is not as convinient as Hail, but perfectly fine for apps that I don’t need to freeze multiple times a day. Sort of a middle ground between convenience and security.

But you have to compile it again on every update, right?

Ansolutely! I thought a lot about the pros and cons of GrapheneOS, and decided it was better for both my privacy and security, and also ease of life. I still felt bad about the loss of control though, and that’s why I wrote this list for myself. Now I don’t feel as some evil company forbids me from having root access, but that I voluntarily chose a system that protects my privacy to the point of taking some tools (that I didn’t really use that much) away from me to protect me agains exploits. It may be copium, but I’m happier :)