Privacy

The lock screen on a diary app stops a flatmate. It does not stop much else.

Blocking numbers one at a time is a losing game. The number is different tomorrow.

No advertising, no account, no analytics. Also no support line and no guarantee anyone is still working on it.

You are not buying encryption. You are buying an operator whose income does not depend on you.

If your work runs on Exchange, this comparison is shorter than it looks.

Only one of these lets you install an ad blocker, and that decides it for a lot of people.

One encrypts everything by default. The other is a better messenger. They are not the same argument.

The transfer covers most of it. This list is the rest, and it is always the same items.

An authorised computer can read most of your phone. That is the point, and it is why you turn it off after.

Nothing reminds you. That is the entire problem, and it has three reasonable solutions.

Regional pricing is deliberate. Pretending to be somewhere else to use it is not.

The question to ask is not which site, but where that site got the file.

It is not checking whether your phone is safe. It is checking whether Google says it is unmodified.

Almost every messenger encrypts something. The question is what, and whether by default.

The interesting question is not what apps ask for. It is what they get without asking.

Disable is enough for almost everyone. Removal is a computer job and it comes back on a reset.

The codes are portable. Whether your app lets you move them is a product decision.

Maps, push notifications and payments are the three things that actually break.

You do not need to read the certificate. You need to know whether it matches.

The file is either the developer's build or somebody else's. Four checks tell you which.

Two minutes, no app, and your network operator stops seeing every site you look up.

If the VPN is free, work out what is paying for the servers before you route your traffic through them.

Most apps handle a refusal gracefully. The ones that do not are telling you something.

The keyboard is the app with the most access and the least scrutiny.