Galli [comrade/them]

“if” gcc had a Ken Thompson hack how do you secure checks notes anything

best guess is the vpn endpoint is blacklisted by google.com with the requests being ignored instead of serving you with a 403 as some sites might. The other geographic google tlds I assume are operating separate blacklists.

alias?

You could use Insular to quarantine your untrusted apps into their own profile (different permissions, file directory etc) and then transfer the individual photos to the “work” profile to access them with whatsapp.

I did the same thing starting probably around the same time as you except that did it start working for me 5 years ago and I haven’t gone back to windows.