this is known as a strawman. nice try
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someone could make this a simple mobile app using shizuku so you don't even need another device.
Garuda is much more bloated ootb
a governmental body. private entities, whether that be people or organizations, are not bound to the concepts of censorship like a governing body with real power over the people are.
you're definitely over thinking a simple personal preference
having proper hardware security like is present on pixels would help a lot. if you can, look into a pixel and put grapheneos on it. I know it doesn't solve your sim removal issue but the documentation can walk you through a lot of that.
you really shouldn't be recommending things that adds attack vectors.
that doesn't help with sim removal. sim swaps are stuff are a thing and honestly more of a concern than data exfiltration.
... what do you want them to say? please remove your tinfoil hat lmao
you can do this with proton servers as well. they offer openvpn and wireguard. iirc, the "non-free services" is because the "Alternate routing" feature in proton apps routes over Google servers. if you disable this option it goes directly to their servers.
if they wanted to employ full browser fingerprinting they could
because it's dismissive and unhelpful? it doesn't need to be said.