aosp and android aren't necessarily one in the same.

those were some bullshit bullet points lmao

congrats. you've got the worst recommendation yet lmao

a governmental body. private entities, whether that be people or organizations, are not bound to the concepts of censorship like a governing body with real power over the people are.

that doesn't help with sim removal. sim swaps are stuff are a thing and honestly more of a concern than data exfiltration.

check out cromite. it's an updated bromite fork.

this doesn't matter but I found it interesting bc of all the people recommending tools like shelter and insular, using profiles or work profiles to separate data would be siloing not sandboxing.

edit: with that said, as others have pointed out, apps are already sandboxed on Android. they can only really communicate with mutual consent ipc. so say for example, Google services can communicate with other Google apps because they both explicitly call for each other. while ipc is still technically something to think about, the mutual consent requirement makes it somewhat difficult to make malicious use of it.

apps aren't capable at accessing other app data whenever they wish, though. even with storage permissions granted it only really has access to user directories (downloads, documents, etc.).

edit2: additionally, it's worth noting that using any profiles (work or normal), will increase ram and battery usage by a decent margin as this will make a second user with all system apps running alongside your main user.

any solution involving root should also be considered a non-option as well, since gaining root access completely cripples androids security model.

Instagram hosts their own ads so she can still have an adblocker and.. shudders click the Instagram ads.

even if you are someone who subscribes to the mindset "nothing to hire, nothing to fear", kids can't make that decision yet, themselves so I've always found it nice when people don't include their kids on socials until they're at least a teenager or so, granted I don't have kids, this is just from a bystanders pov.

family vlog channels back in the day always left a bad taste in my mouth.

I've had some wild issues that I can't even begin to explain with btrfs. I landed on using xfs for / partition and btrfs on /home

this test has been known to have problems on Firefox. 90% Firefox+ublock+nextdns, 99% after using the fix they recommend @@*$redirect-rule in your rules.

I'm starting to think some of y'all don't know what a walled garden is. just saw someone on mastodon refer to signal as a walled garden.