Check out Swappa. They usually have plenty of phones in various condition to pick from.

I’m not familiar with Lunduke. Could you elaborate?

This doesn’t seem surprising at all. Isn’t that what Google Play Services is for? If you don’t want it, custom ROMs are easily installed.

I wish Telegram would just enable default E2EE. Oh well, time to switch to Signal!

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

Here’s a link to the chatbot. It’s pretty good at explaining things and has a lot of patience for the hopeless drivel conspiracy theories contain. I like how it doesn’t just refute them with specific evidence, but tears apart the very logic of the conspiracy theories.

https://survey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a63Ctm1v22DNlie

Does this really work? Wouldn’t rm remove itself in /bin early in the process?

I think you’re giving companies too much credit. Freakonomics did a series called “Does Advertising Actually Work?” and the tl;dr was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-1-tv-ep-440/

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-2-digital-ep-441/