Been using duckduckgos browser. No idea how that stands up to iron fox, but it was a lot better than chrome or vanilla Firefox, which is what I was using before lol

Not familiar with this, but jumping on the opensnitch bandwagon. I use it, plus ufw, plus pihole.

Kill the DNS lookups, kill it at the network level of possible, and if it’s sneaky OpenSnitch catches it at the application layer.

I have to second this. Even if none of that was true, they find you through the “you shaped hole” in the lives of the ppl around you. That’s the best you can hoped for IMO

For what its worth I’m interested. XDA has a lot of info, but its either dated or assumes you know a whole lot, which makes the whole process arduous. Especially considering that the consequences of doing it wrong are significant.

The other problem is trusting custom ROM providers. If they are known/ have rep three is some trust. But I dont know anyone in that space