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I've taken out one of the questions for various reasons: I think that having more than one unrelated question is distracting and also I've seen strong evidence that it cannot have very satisfactory answer. For this reason I've also changed the title of the question
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Set where the speed of convergence is uniform in Lebesgue's density theorem

Let $B \subset \mathbb R^n$ be the unit ball. Consider a Borel measurable set $E \subset B$ with positive Lebesgue measure $|E|>0$ (say $|E| = |B|/2$).

Then, Lebesgue's density theorem, says that for a.e. $x\in E$ $$ \lim_{r \downarrow 0} \frac{|B(x,r)\backslash E|}{|B(x,r)|} = 0. $$

We can restate it as follows: for a.e. $x\in E$, for all $\epsilon>0$ there exists $r_0 = r_0(x, \epsilon)>0$ such that $$ |B(x,r)\backslash E| \leq \epsilon |B(x,r)|, \quad 0<r<r_0(x,\epsilon) . $$ I am particularly interested in the dependence $\epsilon(r, x)$.

I have a question about this. Probably it has been studied but I have not been able to find any reference.

Given $E$, can we prove some uniformity for $\epsilon$ in a positive measure set (maybe of measure smaller than $|E|$)? That is, can we find some $r_*>0$ and $\phi$ continuous with $\phi(0)=0$ such that $$ \epsilon(r,x) \leq \phi(r), \quad 0<r<r_* $$ for all $x \in \tilde E$ for some Borel set $\tilde E\subset E$ with $0<|\tilde E|\leq |E|$.

Edit: Initially I had two questions but I have decided to delete one.

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