The scam ones are those that are treated as stocks rather than digital cash.
EngineerGaming
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To be fair, I wouldn't trust stock Firefox indeed, as it also has bad defaults and has demonstrated disrespect to users' consent (like turning on the ad tracking option without even informing anyone). I would rather opt for a hardening user.js or a fork with them pre-applied, like Librewolf.
complicated Android emulator setup
Wait, so a normal stock Waydroid/Bliss/Android-x86 wouldn't work? They need some extra settings?
By "passport" I meant "the universal ID everyone has", maybe it's named differently where you are.
Yeah, sorry for being confusing. The library having a record is indeed just an additional concern, personal main one is the reader's manufaturer getting telemetry, including on the DRMless books. I personally download my books from Libgen.
The passport mention is because here - at least as far as I remember - they do want your passport to sign you up for the library system. And I would just be surprised if this massive system isn't a part of the super-invasive surveillance apparatus, or at least isn't freely accessible to whoever wants it in the law enforcement (like most data out there).
I do just that. You do you. Even though the topics aren't dangerous, I am still uncomfortable having them recorded tied to my passport.
Well yeah, my issue is needing internet connection at all - as well as having my reading in the library app itself being spied on, even if my reader did have an OS I trust to be online.
I wouldn't like the surveillance this would indirectly cause. My guess would be that a library app would need an internet connection... And I would not trust my reader to ever be online.
I still cannot get over the fact that a browser requires an account to use.
Fair points, misunderstood indeed.
Android virtual machine? Waydroid?
Regardless of whether the content is "useful and educative" or "brainrot", I just don't seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.