App. I don’t have any Google account signed in my browsers.

Yes I’m logged into Youtube using mircog

I mentioned in the post that I’m using privacy respecting FUTO keyboard

Huh? It’s not? I don’t use any ai features. Infact, I have uninstalled Google app using Shizuku.

No it’s not. I can’t really prove it but I just know when Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happens. This is a case of Youtube tracking me because a video on such topics, surrounding that terms, can’t really just happen on my feed, twice.

Android running coloros

the YouTube app still tracks your video watch preferences and such

Yes I know they track users but I want to know how were they able to track me here in this case.

No, it’s not.

What does this mean?

Someone needs to answer this

Nooooooo Mull is dead now? It’s my default browser.

I hope someone picks it up and forks it like we have Cromite for Bromite.

I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).

These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.

Downloaded it. It’s crazy how its not really that far behind gmaps.

It is explained in their github.

“Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️) library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available can be extracted from GApps packages (“swypelibs”), or downloaded here (click on the file and then “raw” or the tiny download button)” https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard#:~:text=Glide typing (,tiny download button)

In the app, you go Advanced > Load gesture typing library > Select your downloaded library.

Recently I too have made a huge change in move towards degoogling and replaced Gboard with Heliboard. I never thought I’d be able to replace Gboard because I use gesture typing a lot. Heliboard doesn’t come inbuilt with gesture typing but you have to import from closed source(?) data which is just a one time import (would like to know more on this one from someone more knowledgeable). So far, it has been great!

Is Automattic a good company tho? Heard some not so good stories about them recently.

Xiaomi has the biggest custom ROM scene out there btw despite them trying their hardest to stop bootloader unlocking. You really don’t need to have a company supporting unlocking to make ROMs for them. If they outright block it then that’s an issue.

Use Searxng. I always wanted to branch out of DDG and now this is push I needed.

I’m seeing way more ads at the top(at the top 5 of the search) related to the keyword I’m typing. For eg, if I am searching for a movie pirate website I would get ad results at the top which are paid like Netflix, Amazon Prime etc and no results related to the pirate site I’m searching. This is not how it used to be. I used to find those sites at the top 3 resuls. It was convenient.

Yes duck assist is great and I like Duck ai as well.

Use searx next time instead of Google.