100% it’s always a question of your resources vs theirs, but you’re dead on to make it harder.

I’ll just add to also turn it off, pull the SIM, and show in a Faraday bag on your way back too. If the recent reporting about ICE buying location data from ad networks shows anything, it’s that they are interested in a capability of following people to and from protests. Graphene should obviate this by disabling Google Play services by default anyway.

You should leave your regular phone at home, go to another place, power on your other device, speak your part in public, then travel another location and power off. This provides no consistent start or end location to work with for a particular device.

Alright, I already “umm, ackshually’d” someone in this thread but this post in particular hit a nerve with me. The Tor security model is based on 3 hops but does not guarantee 3 different jurisdictions. Their circuit building only takes into account “jurisdiction” in the way we’re using it here if you use guard nodes or specific cases when you cannot access the network directly or look like you’re exiting from a Tor node.

That said, it’s still a very strong project and security model. And everything you said about spreading out your providers without a single point of failure (or pressure) applies.

I know this was in jest but seems on topic with the post - please switch from pattern to PIN (or better still, password). Pattern is orders of magnitude easier to crack than PIN.

Sorry, I wasn’t as clear in my original post.

At the bottom of the settings page you can generate a “bookmarklet” that includes the config options in your URL. So https://duckduckgo.com/ becomes https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=t if I want the Terminal color scheme. And this works without cookies. And this applies for all possible settings.

Interestingly I set my home page to a string that should disable all the AI features and I still got summaries sometimes so not sure if that’s a bug, user error, or hostile UI. In either case, something like you suggest with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?kae=t&etc=… should give you the best of both worlds.

You can plus this up into a vodka cream sauce fairly easily. Throw some garlic in with that onion once it’s starting to look translucent. Cook the tomato paste for a bit until it starts taking on some color then add like 1.5 tbl of vodka and let it cook a bit to lose some of the alcohol flavor.

Throw in some butter and Parmesan cheese at the end if you have it. Also can incorporate different meats if they’re cheap that week and scales up real well.

Look up Brian Lagerstrom vodka pasta on YouTube or Piped for the recipe I’m referring to. He also gives options for shelf stable replacements so you can stock up.

For you and whomever else needs to hear it, you can solve the second part by going to https://duckduckgo.com/settings and saving the bookmark with all the options included. Then you can clear all the cookies you want and it’ll always load the same settings.