Pherenike

Lol

I’ve used it for almost five years, flashed it myself on my FP3. I disabled microG and I’m very careful & strict about what I install on my phone, also their Advanced Privacy set of tools is pretty good. For my threat model is more than enough and I am very happy overall. Never had any serious issues, or even mildly serious ones tbh, despite people yelling about Android security updates arriving late. There was an outage in their cloud services in October that required a complete revamping of their server infrastructure and that took months but I don’t use their cloud so I wasn’t affected at all.

I have ING app, it works seamlessly through microG but I don’t need it for basic use of the app. I don’t use my phone to pay for stuff.

Oh, I see. Sorry.

He edited that book, didn’t write it, but okay, I like him too. His work on propaganda about Venezuela is fantastic.

I was not able to install any extensions on Cromite, how did you manage it?

There is absolutely nothing questionable about what he said, that article you linked just says they tried to dig up dirt on him and what they found was ridiculously unscandalous

They use Adblock Plus though. Would not recommend.

It all kinda boils down to the Cambridge Analytica scandal for me. Harvesting people’s locations and data, accessing and logging our daily lives is what facilitates mass manipulation of the public’s opinion, therefore distorting their view of the world and killing freedom of thought. GAFAM and others are specialists in controlling their users. I ultimately don’t want to be profiled, controlled and/or rail-roaded in any aspect of my life.

This is the way.

I’m not very tech-savvy, and that article looks very nice, but it’s kind of old and it’s true that they haven’t been as transparent (and frequently audited) as other services and they still require a phone number to set up an account, even if you can switch to only using a username later. Also, they removed encrypted database, and Molly brings that back which is the main reason I use it. Another thing I don’t like about Signal is how ferociously they’ve tried to shut down forks in the past, and how they don’t say that you need Google Play Services for it to work properly. Sadly it’s the only “privacy-conscious” service I’ve managed to make most of my family and friends use, after trying for years.

I see. Thanks.

I use the Molly-FOSS fork, do you know if that removes the metadata collection? I know it doesn’t use any Google Play Services and it comes with its own notification bubble though.

Musicolet, lets you create playlists but it can also create randomized playlists and have multiple queues at the same time. It’s not FOSS though, if that’s something you care about. But it doesn’t even connect to the internet so I don’t mind.