This is an update on my privacy setup since my last post. Yeah, I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can’t ditch it right now. How can I improve my setup?
Is there really that much advantage to isolating these apps in a work profile? I’ve been using them under a work profile for a while now and I see not much point to it since I never practically disable them for concern over missing out on important notifications. They have as much access to device APIs as they do in the personal profile anyways so they can track my phone just as well. It just becomes inconvenient moving content between both profiles.
When I used it on GrapheneOS, it was to ensure untrusted apps (especially banking apps requiring Google Play Services) no longer remaining active after using them; but if you never close the work profile, they indeed remain active. But it’s a good measure regardless: to ensure you don’t accidentally give WhatsApp or whatever, permission to personal media; even if it means added inconvenience (which is the most common trade-off with privacy).