You’re welcome. I will check out Audile.

Not sure, it is downstream from NewPipe so I’m not sure how much vibe coding would even be necessary. But I haven’t checked.

Tresorit

It did, actually

You’re welcome. If you remember, let me know.

I’m a little bit embarassed that it took me so long to switch to Linux. Even macOS is better for most use cases these days…

Who are you concerned about the data going to? Intercepting a Bluetooth signal is not really a thing anymore. Your phone OS has plenty of ways to know what you’re listening to without Bluetooth itself being thr vector. If you use GrapheneOS and Linux, you’re good there. The headphones themselves aren’t going to have a Sim card that is phoning home.

So then you’re left with third party software being the attack vector. For this reason, I would not install headphone apps, and ESPECIALLY not earbuds that require connecting/registering to a third party account like Amazon Echo buds.

This unfortunately means no custom EQ. For my open ear headphones, I tried out my top 4 choices without downloading the app, and picked the best sounding & most comfortable pair. That happened to be the Nothing Ear Open. My over ear Sony XM4 headphones that I already own are amazing but needed EQ badly, so I installed the app on an old Android, tweaked the EQ, and it saved the EQ information to the headphones themselves. Not all headphones can do this, however.

Privacy.com is not a VPN service.

Yes, that combo is usually how I get masked cards to work. You might try using a different device too if that doesn’t work; it could be possible that your device info was flagged.

Might be unpopular in this sub, but I don’t think that’s that big of a deal. Sites get hacked sometimes. It happens, especially 11 years ago, especially on a site that stores financial info.

I think your problem is not the masked card, but the VPN. i could be wrong, but I bet if you don’t use a VPN, it will probably let you use a service like Privacy.com. There is very little way to detect it. Unless Patreon is selling your data, them having your IP once or twice for logging in isn’t the biggest issue. And their privacy policy states that they never sell any data to third parties for any reason, and do not share any data besides:

• Creator Access: When you subscribe, your full name, email address, and shipping details (if applicable for physical rewards) are shared with the creator you support.
• Service Providers: Data is shared with payment processors, fraud prevention partners, and third-party apps chosen by creators to fulfill membership services.
• Legal Compliance: Information may be disclosed to law enforcement or in the event of a company merger or sale, as required by law or valid legal process.

Up to you if you believe them, but Patreon tends to be uncontroversial as far as payment systems go.

It is also pretty common to have your site behind Cloudflare since Ai became a thing, especially for VPNs.

I’'m not saying any of this SHOULD be normal, or that you NEED to accept it. If your limit is being able to use a VPN, you do you. But if I were in your position and wanted to donate, I would just do it. Privacy is never perfect. If you believe strongly in independent financial support, I think that’s reasonable, especially if you end up being able to use a masked card without a VPN. You may also consider contacting the creators. Hard to ignore “hey I want to give you free money please”

Unless OP is into that kind of thing…

Almost everything I use is FLOSS, with some exceptions that can’t be helped.

System:

Droid-ify, Bitwarden, Termux, Ente Auth, Fossify (File Manager, Clock, Voice Recorder, and Gallery), Proton (Mail, Calendar, VPN, Drive), CalcYou, KDE Connect, Tailscale, Offline Translator, Rain (Weather), Brave, Vanadium, Tor, Addy.io (email aliasing)

Media-Based:

Notesnook, Librera FD (e-reader), Collabora Office, OSS File Scanner, Image Toolbox, Ente Photos, WizeStream (YouTube, PeerTube, and SoundCloud client), MetroList (YouTube Music), Jellyfin, Libre Librivox Listener (audio books), Audire (Shazam client), Auxio (local music player)

Social:

Signal, Element X (Matrix), Cheogram, Mastodon, Interstellar (Piefed), Red Reader (Reddit), Slim Social (Facebook)

I do overall prefer the idea of that approach. I like shared universes but Marvel for example has become droll with every movie or show being a trailer for the next slop content and nothing else. So I liked it, don’t get me wrong. But I have some notes…and if this is the only GL thing we’re getting I don’t know if I’d say I’m “satisfied”, especially given the completely lack of GL content since… ever. I am on board enough to continue watching the DCU though.

No way. MAYBE if they specifically asked me to, but that’s a big maybe. It can be a lot of work to maintain, and they’re probably not going to want to put in the work to do that. It’s like buying them a puppy when they never mentioned let’s before.

I did enjoy it, but I’d prefer they not do thr TV show format for Green Lanterns moving forward. The writing, character development, casting, and acting was all quite good, there just was not NEARLY enough Green Lantern-ing. And it was interesting what they were able to do with a limited setting, but I don’t ever want to see that Nebraskan town or anyone in it ever again. Except the kid, for obvious reasons.

He’s my favorite Green Lantern

Vanadium does have ad blocking. It is just not as good as Brave or uBlock Origin.

I do second using a Chromium browser of some kind though. Brave, Vanadium, or Cromite. I understand people who prefer to avoid Chromium, but not sandboxing by site on Android is such a strange thing to avoid implementing for years & years. It defeats a lot of what you’re trying to accomplish to use Gecko based browsers. On desktop? Have at it. Android? I wouldn’t if you’re the type of person who is installing GrapheneOS.

Thanks a lot jackasses

That’s why I always click the eye to see it if possible, and log in on another device with the password manager after changing/creating a password. I’ve only had that happen once or twice though.

Also, like, if it doesn’t allow me to set up a passkey because my manager or OS is not supported…I guess I’m not setting up a passkey then, which is OK by me, so there is no problem.

I default to using 128 characters because that’s the max for the password generator I use. A surprising amount of accounts are OK with that, like more often than not. I have pared accounts down massively since using a password manager though, and use privacy respecting services when possible, so I may be self selecting here.