The voyager client has filters you could use to try and filter things out.

Is the database of websites installed locally in the extension or is it calling home for every website I visit?

Alternatively, in a similar fashion. Use “hail” to auto pause any app you want so they don’t run in the background unintended.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aistra.hail/

It’s complicated.

He said torrent, not tor.

That’s wrong. Youtube dislike has its own database, and infers the bumber of dislikes based on the number of dislike it got and its userbase.

The plug-in stopped working because youtube changed its layout. It’s coming back.

“it could happen here” posted in “world news” 😂

Even with inflation. Answering captchas for 8 hours a day will get you maybe 100$ a month.

Those “jobs” are meant for third world countries. Even then it’s a pretty low pay.

https://thebestbusinessadvice.com/captcha-typing-jobs/#h-how-much-can-you-earn-from-captcha-typing-jobs

Answering captchas pays much much less than that.

Yeah, because books, the web, and educated people have a liberal bias.

Some developers will publish their apps on github, you can download it, and use a different app to get the apk file from the app you get from the play store, and compare the hash of the file. If they’re identical then Google didn’t meddle with it. If they’re not, either Google did, or the developer releases a different version to Google Play.

Google playstore does not inject data in app packaging because it doesn’t own the signature key. F-Droid, however, does. I mean, they own the signature, but they do not inject or modify apps. They could, though.