This is an update on my privacy setup since my last post. Yeah, I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can’t ditch it right now. How can I improve my setup?

  • Delascas@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    14 hours ago

    Uber???

    Serious suggestion - install Shelter and move both WhatsApp and Uber into your work profile. That has a number of advantages - keeping them away from your contacts and gives you the ability to suspend all closed source apps with a single click.

    • degooglerleon@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Man, I tried using Shelter, but I didn’t have a good first impression of it. I went to download it and saw that it seemed to have a pretty simple design, but what caught my eye was the fact that it was last updated almost 3 years ago. I hesitated for a moment but tried to ignore that and went ahead and installed it: when I went to use it, it bundled about 6 apps without me asking, the app I actually wanted to bundle stopped working, and the others it bundled without my permission became extremely slow. Not only that, but my whole phone in general got really sluggish, lagging and all that. I didn’t have a good experience with it and I don’t plan on using it again.

    • enchantedgoldapple@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Is there really that much advantage to isolating these apps in a work profile? I’ve been using them under a work profile for a while now and I see not much point to it since I never practically disable them for concern over missing out on important notifications. They have as much access to device APIs as they do in the personal profile anyways so they can track my phone just as well. It just becomes inconvenient moving content between both profiles.

      • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 hours ago

        When I used it on GrapheneOS, it was to ensure untrusted apps (especially banking apps requiring Google Play Services) no longer remaining active after using them; but if you never close the work profile, they indeed remain active. But it’s a good measure regardless: to ensure you don’t accidentally give WhatsApp or whatever, permission to personal media; even if it means added inconvenience (which is the most common trade-off with privacy).