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Telegram FOSS is definitely better than official client if you really have to use this service but you should look for some alternatives like Session.

You don’t even have to be a programmer to remember how slow Internet Explorer is.

That’s your choice and I’m not going to argue with that. I don’t know when you are planning to get a new phone but I personally think that Linux phones will be much better as second phone rather than full Android replacement for a long time.

IMO no service is worth loss in privacy and there is always some better alternative, it just may be difficult to find or may lack some features. I think Linux phones would be good for some use cases but won’t really replace Android phones. Google Pixel phones are actually good if you degoogle them, they probably have the best security level IIRC.

Best explanation I ever saw.

If you need YouTube but want to avoid Google tracking then try using Piped - it’s good alternative to Invidious because it’s using proxy by default.

Installing GrapheneOS and removing Google from your life is really big step in privacy. It may be difficult at the start but there is alternative to most, if not all, software created by Google and other companies that doesn’t care about your privacy.

I’m curious if whonix actually provides any value rather than just running tor locally?

It’s definitely more resistant to any exploits because Whonix Workstation doesn’t know your real IP address.

Like has there ever been a case when because tor was run locally on someones computer over using whonix for tor that they were compromised?

If someone got saved from being identified then you probably will not hear about it anywhere but there were cases where Whonix would save someone from being identified if they only used it. As an example see Buster Hernandez’s case (more details here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-predator-buster-hernandez). He was running Tor locally (because he was using Tails) and he got caught.