I had the exact same issue when I created a Tuta email, thankfully they solved my problem in less than 24h after I emailed them about this.

Just send an e-mail. your account was flagged as bot.

Isn’t duck.ai private? At least they say that…

I think you’re very well when it comes to privacy, but that’s not mininalism, finding private alternatives is different from digital minimalism.

To me, digital minimalism would be: Go from a note pad app to a physical note book.

While what you’re doing is going from a note pad app to a more privacy friendly digital app.

I agree with the digital minimalism tho, I think the less we depend on cloud the less we have to worry about.

I don’t like the idea of paying too much for privacy, I fear this might be one more of capitalism ideas, creating the problem and offering you the solution.

So my privacy journey is limited:

• Listen to all songs downloaded offline
• Use VSCodium for coding (VSCode without telemetry)
• Lineage on Android
• Arch on PC, Windows 10 IoT LTSC (with debloat scripts, no linked account) for games
• LibreWolf on PC and IronFox on Android, both with LibRedirect enabled for all sites and uBO
• DNSNet on Android to block trackers system-wide, I also like to see which url is trying to track me
• All apps are mostly Lineage or AOSP native, Files, Calculator, Messages, Contacts etc…
• Use pCloud for backup with encrypted files (using GPG, not pCloud encryption, I send them encrypted)
• I use Lemmy and Invidious for entertainment
• Tuta as primary email and Proton as secondary

I think this is the main stuff, as I said, I try to avoid making new accounts, accessing new websites frequently, I’m going the opposite way and trying to de-tech as much as possible. Less digital accounts, less things to worry about.

I became less dependent of fancy things, a few time ago I couldn’t use YouTube without the app installed, which is very convenient, now I just use Invidious in browser.

I wonder if you can run Waydroid on mobile linux, it’d feel like an Android phone, but you’ll have more control over it because it’s actually just a container inside your OS, easily root etc…

How would this be better than Linux mobile?

Yes, that’s what I told uBO team when I opened a discussion on their sub, they said they tried it but some functions like chat stopped working properly.

I’d try it myself but I think I really don’t care that much anymore, let it just die already.

Yes, redlib do the job if you want to be completely anonymous, same as Invidious.

I’m still using Windows on dual-boot with Arch because of games, that’s the only reason. I’ve Windows 10 LTSC IoT, which is the most debloated version available, plus I ran a debloater script, so the OS is basically raw now, no Microsoft account linked.

Unfortunately Windows still gets more performance, at least on my experience, I’ve a Laptop 16GB RAM, Hybrid GPU (GeForce 1650 4VRAM + AMD).

I’m still not prepared to give up from this little extra performance just to switch to Linux, it really makes a difference, and I pass the whole day dealing with Linux so at the end of the day I just want to boot into something that just works without major tweaks.

I know it’s not Linux fault, but most games are made to run better on Windows. If and when W10 become unusable, I’ll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it’s my last Windows.

I’d say given the AMD contributions to Linux better to support them with your money instead of NVIDIA.

If you say digital ads, probably none.

But we have ads everywhere, brands and logos are everywhere, this is ad too.

I get my earphones I see their logo, I get my phone I see a logo too, my laptop, my shoes, my shirts etc… Ads everywhere.

Facebook got my precise location just using my IP, I decided to create a fake account to use FB market place, they warned me about an “unknown login”, it’s the first time I’ve seen this, usually websites only know approximate location, but this time just by knowing my IP they hit exactly the small town where I live, instead of near towns which is the normal. I suspect they had my IP from other devices allowing location in the same network (same wifi), then they could safely associate that IP with my exact location even tho I didn’t enable any GPS any time.

You can use VSCodium, it’s VSCode without Microsoft telemetry

I don’t play EA games it’s being years. My Steam profile description is “#NoEAGames #NoUbisoftGames”.

There’s even some really good old games from EA but I just don’t play it, and that’s it.

No I think not, but reading the README of DNSNet they mention Rethink, I tried it here and I think it might work similar to AdGuard. https://rethinkdns.com/

Rethink DNS exclusively uses DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS to encrypt and secure your DNS queries.

I’m not sure but I suppose it does since it’s a local VPN, it log all requests being made, why wouldn’t it block https?

I think you still can have a Linux phone with GNOME, there’s a GNOME version for mobile.

After all, what is a smartphone? Just a convenient computer that can make calls.

Linux + GNOME will do that for you.

This is from 2022 and it looks pretty good to me: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/