Yep, the hardest part of Signal is convincing everyone you text to use it. Though, once you do, it’s awesome!

SMS as a protocol is pretty bunk. I’m not sure any app can save it. That’s why I just stick to the default SMS app. Well, that, and because that app is made by Anrdoid and your carrier, who can already track everything anyway, so there’s no (extra) privacy hit.

Signal / Matrix when possible and default sms app when not.

People have trouble installing Windows? You enter a license key and click next a couple times.

$20 to remove ads. $99 for ultra (includes ad removal and extra features, many of which require servers).

Another helpful community lost to the data blackhole that is Discord :(

$30 CAD is only $3.30 CAD ($2.47 USD) more than the $20 USD price.

Quotes make it only return results that contain exactly what’s in the quotes. All you need to do is put a string in your website that is unique to all indexed pages. Since there’s no length limit (well, google searches have a max length, but it’s pretty long), I expect that the vast majority of web pages will have some phrase you can use like this.

In theory, you could just search for the entire contents of a page in quotes and it’ll be the only thing that pops up unless another page is identical or contains an identical copy of the first page within it.

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