Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.
Information collected automatically through this Application (or third-party services employed in this Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
So basically everything you do, in the launcher of your phone. Which means everything you open, search, etc, and for how long. They also tie it to you, and explicitly state it can be used for legal reasons:
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Lastly, they hand it off to Matomo (a Google Analytics style tracker) and Bugsnag (error monitor with a privacy policy worth it's own review).
Nova was mentioned by @DavidP@lemmy.world, however they were purchased by an analytics company, and my understanding is it now has some nepharious garbage in it.
I switched to Neo Launcher, a FOSS launcher that is very similar.
However many prefer Lawnchair, which is also similar and FOSS.
I used to do all the things mentioned here. Now, I just use Wireguard. If a family member wants to use a service, they need Wireguard. If they don't want to install it, they dont get the service.
There is outdoor laser tag now. I also haven't tried this, but apparently with a couple of Quest headsets you can play laser tag in VR in a large enough space.
You made a post to attempt to dispell what you consider a misunderstanding about BlueSky, yet your comment suggests you dont understand the Fediverse.
Well, that problem also exists with mastodon.social
No, it doesn't. There are thousands of instances, some with hundreds of thousands of users. If you sort the instance list by active users, the population spreads out even more, because smaller instances have more active users.
and a lot of the actual fediverse.
Wrong again. Lemmy.world is about 30% of Lemmy, and less when you include Mbin, PieFed, etc.
Its less distributed, but its still decentralised.
I run a Fedi instance connected to hundreds of others. If one, even a large one, defederates me, it does not cut me off. If I ran a PDS, I'd be connected to BlueSky, and they can do what they want.
You are rationalizing this to yourself because you like BlueSky.
Hardcore? Reddit abd Twittter are full of bots and garbage, how does avoiding that make anyone hardcore? I think "more well informed" is the phrase you are looking for.
Understanding if you don't want to risk a dox, but we will be traveling into east Canada this year from upstate NY. Any reccos on cafes?