noodlejetski
I haven't heard of any research results that have proven that phones or apps are actually listening to people's conversations, and am only aware of a research that has proven the opposite: https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188
WhatsApp is now in Meta's hands
it's been owned by Facebook/Meta for almost a decade, so I'm not sure it warrants using "now".
no, but you can just save the post for checking it out later.
I don't know who said that, but the sentiment resonates very strongly with me. "I remember when the internet was more than five big websites, with each one just posting content from the other four".
edit: found it. "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
I've tried pretty much every app available, and liked Thunder the most. second place goes to Jerboa.
you just replied to the post they've made on Lemmy.
it already has, the fork is named Liftoff and many people seem to like it.
it's a desktop program, while most of the solution OP has posted are Android exclusive.
use the tunnel located in your country?
just treat it as a creative writing piece (which most of the time it is anyway)
nope.