It boils down to consent. You should always always get consent before taking an action that includes somebody else. Just because you can see me is not consent to record me. If you don’t have consent, don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.

Look into Pixelfed.

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So you want me to visit one of the greatest surveillance capitalist and privacy abusers video website to get tips on how to help people understand why privacy is important? Yah, about that. No.

If you have a Nextcloud instance, then https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack might work.

You can’t stop location tracking on cellular devices. If it’s connected to a cell tower, you’re being tracked and profiled.

Jabber (XMPP) or Matrix/Element.

Cell phone tracking is common place. If you carry one, you’re being tracked, profiled and having your data correlated with others. The question is whether you support living in a surveillance society. If you do, grab a cell phone and be happy. If not, get rid of it and use alternative communication methods. It’s a simple choice. In my experience, most people choose convenience over privacy.

Run your own instance. It’s the only way you’ll be able to set your own policies. Otherwise you’re subject to policies of the instance you’re on and those policies may change at any time.

Setup a Koel instance at a host of your choice. Upload your music to it and stream from that. See https://koel.dev/

I take the host my own instance path. It’s safer and more stable than relying on a third party.

Good question.

Add some memory and hard drives and slap TrueNas or Unraid on it.

That bad?

Last time I used Windows on my own was back in the XP days. I saw some of the early Vista and it was even worse. I can’t imagine what the recent versions are like.

Wallabag might work.

You’re not alone, but even people who claim to want privacy are typically unwilling to stop using the very things that violate their privacy. I suspect that until that changes on a mass scale, the expectation that you should give up your data will remain.

That’s lip service to privacy with spyware in reality.

There is no such thing as a private cellular device. It does not matter if it’s a smartphone, dumb phone, or simple internet access device.

Cellular devices are location tracked and their owners profiled. All devices have proprietary cellular modems that communicate over the network and have full access to your system. Nothing you do on device will stop that.

The only exception I’ve heard of is from Purism. The Librem 5 claims to separate the base system from the cellular modem, but that still won’t stop the location tracking.

Point blank, you can’t carry a connected cellular device, and have privacy. They are mutually exclusive goals.