GrapheneOS also claims it’s not defending against anything real. Which makes sense as Pixels can clearly maintain security while allowing alternate OSes. So this is just hostile vendor lock-in. Disappointing as there was some speculation that OP would be the GOS OEM, but there’s no way they would do this is that was true.

Off to Guantanamo he goes!

uMatrix isn’t maintained anymore, but you can actually do this directly in uBO now!

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-scripting

I hadn’t heard about using the headers to check for spoofed emails before. Here’s more information on how to do it for anyone else who’s curious.

You really ought to get on the mathfinder train

They are more privacy focused, but they are not “better” in an unqualified way. Mullvad and Tor especially are not recommendable for daily usage without significant asterisks, they have some features disabled and if you modify their settings at all, add extensions, or even log in to websites, you ruin their anonymity features.

Librewolf is nice, but it’s basically just Firefox with Arkenfox pre-applied, and it lacks automatic updates which are important for security. If you have a package manager that’s better, but by definition you’ll still get updates slower than using Firefox and applying Arkenfox yourself. For instance Firefox 129 released on August 6, Librewolf 129 on August 10.

Keymonk. It actually still mostly works if you find an old apk, I’m using it now. The suggestion bar is broken and it’s a little buggy, but god most of the time it still flies, security risks be damned.

Keyboard 69 was another option, but it’s also abandoned and I found it much more bloated and buggy.

What I wouldn’t give for a good open source two finger swiping keyboard…