This is not about pushing limits, this is about consent and manipulation.

There is no need to pay for an external service for this and I don't think Mullvad would work for this use case.

if it's being read from, it can be written to.

Why would being able to read imply being able to write?

Having an extra step or two in the way doesn't make it "extremely secure".

Well it can greatly improve security by preventing a compromised app to achieve persistence.

This is not how this works. Putting some text in the prompt is not the same as training a specialised model on it.

They were all found guilty, but with lighter sentences than what was requested. The longer being 15 years and 6 at least won't have jail time.

En anglais, c'’est plus simple pour chercher des choses sur internet après (message d’erreur, nom d’une option…)

For system wide DNS blocking you only have two options: use a DNS server with blocking (either your own with something like a piHole our a public one) or use the hosts file.

I guess it's this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homyt.thex

While this is true it's still good to add nuance.

There is a difference between judiciary and intelligence context in these kind of things, if you use a tool in a judiciary context you burn it (as with the FBI malware on Playpen). So it's probably better to keep it low, even avoid to use some of the information gathered, so you keep the intelligence source.

I'm not saying that's what's going on, just that this is not an absolute proof.

How would you?

Gas station app?

How do you keep a phone more than 5 years while still having security updates without a custom ROM?