1. Launch your browser.

2. Right-click on your toolbar to open toolbar settings.

3. Click on Customize Toolbar.

4. A new page with a list of items will open that you can drag into the toolbar.

5. Click on the Add-on and drag it into your toolbar.

adding extensions would alter the fingerprint - removing the ability to blend in with the herd which is the whole goal of mullvad browser.

Sounds like librewolf is for you!

you should swap Shazam for the open source "Audile" :

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mrsep.musicrecognizer/

Debian Stable ± Flatpak gets best of both worlds

crypt.ee

not just its origin, but the trackers embedded within:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/427597/#trackers

DivestOS:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#divestos

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

For the OS: Debian

Hardware: a modern thinkpad

You too!

Fair enough - we are agreed at least then that the default android os is awful for privacy.

Then its no longer stock?

Ive recently managed to do this;

Settings> Network & Internet> Hotspot & Tethering> Allow Clients To Use VPN

What I don't understand though, doesn't using mullvad automatically set their own DNS?

Stock android is definitely enshitified - but there is still hope with custom os's

Had a similar issue as did one of my friends with pixels, which is unfortunate as grapheneos is one hell of a operating system.

After having 2 different pixels break (planned obsolescence) I ended up settling for a fairphone (which I can easily repair and replace parts myself with e/os - but divestOS also looks promising.

Debian stable + Flatpak

Agreed.

For any (k)ubuntu refugees, do as I did and switch to Debian!

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Would flatpak mitigate this?