VPN provides security in-transit between you and the VPN server. That’s it. Either end can nullify that security by leaking data before or after it is encrypted.

Luckily geocaching is still a thing!

Also from the “European” recommendations, Vivaldi is Chromium, and Mullvad is Tor, which is Firefox.

Patric Breyer usually posts in German. The UK flag in the tweet is just to indicate the language of the tweet.

I went to Japan earlier this year. Filled the travel related paperwork online in advance, and at the border they took fingerprints, compared face to passport (which I assume included a photo) and that was it. Not any different from any other developed country.

I dislike ads as much as the next person, and find uBlock Origin necessary for browsing the web, but the cold fact is that the internet is run with advertising, whether you like it or not.

If that is done without creating a profile on me, and without crippling the reading/viewing experience, I can tolerate advertisement.

I assume this is also an action towards becoming independent from Google funding; which is a good thing.

I’m always advocating for Signal, but I’m worried for the time their billionaire-backing eventually runs out.

Can you disable the app and download another gallery from F-Droid?