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You are putting me on!! Thanks!!

Thanks for the screenshot. I love trying out new software and I haven't heard of half of those engines. Whoogle caught my eye.

I love that it replaced almost 10 different apps on my phone. Very uncommon for an app to do that, especially a FOSS app.

I replaced all of my searches with Andi and it was as advertised. Didn't beat around the bush at all. Though Brave is a lot better with programming questions and obscure references. I went back and forth testing each out.

That is very interesting, you should make the developers aware of this! https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore I personally don't use Android Auto and I can't see what the disconnect would be considering Aurora Store is only a client, and shouldn't interfere with an app's structure. I've been using it for a little over a year now and have updated major system apps like Google Play Services, Android System Webview, Android AICore, etc etc, without any glitching or incompatibilities. I'd be curious to see why Android Auto performs this way. I wonder if it depends on the Google Play Store for it to work. That's a new thing I've noticed that Google and Microsoft are doing, they're forcing their products to be dependent on eachother, for anything to work. Seemingly as a workaround for people who outsource to other services, such as FOSS alternatives.

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I am a fan of Startpage as well! They also have an onion site. Anytime I see that, it is a green flag to me considering there's an inherent favoring for anonymity. With that, I know your recommendations are reliable and I'll put Andi to the test. Everybody says they have the best AI, so the only way to find out is with testing. I do need to stop using Google...

The AI (Leo) always gives me what I'm looking for, no matter how obscure my inquiries get, and handles all of my programming questions exceptionally well. I still have to go to Google when searching for images, but I believe in Brave and our searches will help to build it. Plus, it has an onion site, for secure searches while using the Tor Browser. In general I love Brave's support for Tor. If you'd like me to link the onion site, let me know.

App Stores: F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/ Aurora Store https://auroraoss.com/downloads/AuroraStore/

URL Shortcuts: HTTP Request Shortcuts https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.rmy.android.http_shortcuts/

Terminal: Termux https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

VPN + Firewall (+Connect to Tor & I2P): InviZible Pro https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt.stable/

Browser: Fennec F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ (type "about:config" in the address bar to configure all Firefox Browser settings) (https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries)

Notes: Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/

Chat: SimpleX Chat https://simplex.chat/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0)

Youtube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp Client: NewPipe https://newpipe.net/

Windows Emulator: Winlator https://winlator.org/

Media Editor (+50 other tools): Image Toolbox https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox

I agree with you. Luckily I spent 15 years of my life without a smart phone so I was able to come into that world with a little maturity. That being said, I would put a VPN on the phone so that whatever the child does end up doing you don't get in trouble for. And by "trouble", I mean possible flagging+throttling by your internet service provider. I grew up poor so the only way to watch tv and movies was on pirating websites, which can make your ISP annoyed with you haha. With a VPN, everybody is protected as it will encrypt your internet traffic. Proton VPN offers a free app for Android, also highly trusted by the community. You can see that it works by visiting https://browserleaks.com/ip after you connect to the VPN. Just to give you peace of mind as the internet is a wild place and you never know. As MMA referees say, protect yourself at all times!