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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • They actually did that with the SimplePhone. Last time I looked the pages were down but I know I archived them on the wayback machine.

    They made lots of promises, including that a downloadable ROM would be available, the whole thing quickly crashed and burned.

    Reddit had some pretty extensive threads about it. The whole thing seemed like a grift (it was) and convinced me to dump all their apps.

    Anyway, if this is something you want to do you could check those threads, I know people linked to the phone they were using (from Alibaba) and the source code was on Codeberg iirc.









  • One of the other sub’s here had something about it earlier, I can’t find it of course.

    Some people seemed to be redirected, others reported no problems.

    Some users were also reporting that a Gmail address was now required for new signups, others said no.

    Seems like probably an A/B test.

    I no longer have an account there, I still use Stealth (Android) for search redirects and have no issues, others say Stealth doesn’t work at all.



  • Yes, Tor can be set to start on boot, and there is a run all traffic through Tor setting. I’m pretty sure I remember one time when Tor failed during a session and things still worked though. With RethinkDNS this does not happen tough. When Orbot loses connection, quits, whatever, RethinkDNS will still send it traffic (if configured to do so) but it will not leave the device because Orbot is not running.

    Like I said, I really prefer RethinkDNS



  • I used it previously then switched to RethinkDNS.

    I like the blocking abilities and the logging more with RethinkDNS. I never used I2P so that was moot for me.

    With RethinkDNS I can pick the Hagezi blocklist and No Facebook, as an example, quite easily. I can also individually block domains and IPs. Dnscrypt doesn’t allow that much precision.

    It also has features like allow/disallow only on WiFi or data, block apps not in use, block all apps when device is locked, plus a bunch more stuff.

    It integrates with Orbot, but Orbot must also be installed.

    Really I can’t say anything bad about InviziblePro, I prefer RethinkDNS, you might not though.


  • Call me jaded but the timing of this Puff piece is suss.

    As with all the really great startups, there’s an uncannily close match between the company and the founders. Steve in particular. Reddit has a certain personality — curious, skeptical, ready to be amused — and that personality is Steve’s. Steve will roll his eyes at this, but he’s an intellectual

    Barf