I’ve started missing out on events just because I am not in the group chats my friends are having on there. That is where I draw my limit. I need to start using Messenger.
However I still wish to use Messenger with as much privacy as possible. I am looking for any advice that might improve my experience and lessen any privacy impact.
I will be creating a fresh account that will just have a picture of me and my first name.
I am running iodeOS (Google-free Android ROM with built in ad-block) on my phone and I am very happy with it so far. I will be blocking messengers outgoing requests as much as possible while still retaining base functionality, but I’m not sure how much that will help.
How do I best use Messenger on Android from a privacy perspective?
It’s not free, but check out Hermit. It’s the best sandbox app I’ve used and I use it daily. It creates “applets” that are basically icons on your desktop that launch the sandbox instance. So I’ve got several I use daily: wordle (and variations), a forum I frequent often, different web comics, etc. No need for an actual app installed for each of those when I just have a single app that creates small instances