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It's not just A&A either. I know I'm lucky as I live in an area that's had a relatively new CityFibre XGS-PON install, but I've got 2300Mbps symmetrical and 5000Mbps is coming Q1 this year.

Virgin Media also do Gigabit plus speeds and you can upgrade to symmetrical (they don't seem to advertise this though). That's definitely a household name.

I have messed around with mapping my location history and had some similar problems. Apparently I have been to Essex, UK although I have never been there in my life.

I tracked down the teleporting problem to the fact my tablet was at home and turned on. It seems you can't set location reporting per device, it is either on or off, so you end up being in two locations at once. I was going to look in to trying to remove problem points be setting a distance or speed threshold. That brings the problem of knowing which data point to keep and which to drop though, which I have not got a solution for yet apart from requiring user interaction.

I recently switched from Adblock Plus to HTTP Switchboard[0]. I find it gives you much better control over what gets blocked, and it properly blocks what you have told it to, not just hide them.

I have it set up in quite a restrictive way so by default a site level scope is created and only image/css is allowed. It means I have to take anywhere from a couple of seconds to a few minutes to enable things a site needs to function, but I much prefer that to having tracking cookies, social media buttons, obnoxious adverts etc.

Also the Adblock site claims you can also block a few annoyances specific to Facebook[0]. Is that actually the case? I thought Adblock just used element hiding.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/ [1] https://facebook.adblockplus.me/en/

KeePassDroid is another good one for Android. It does use the clipboard though by giving you two notifications to click on. One for the username, and one for the password of the chosen credentials.

I need to give KeePass2Android a try.