Why us mobile data such a privacy concern and wifi is so much better? I understand using standard calls and text is bad but if you use mobile data and not your phone number whats the difference between that and public wifi?

I get the controversy about the CEO being controversial but the services that proton make are still very good for the most part. And since they’re open source and encrypted you don’t need to trust proton anyway (aside from the VPN).

After trying out many different app launchers on f-droid Kvaesito is what I found to be the best. Kvaesito is very good and is what I use it allows you to swipe down and eminently start searching for apps.

My biggest problem with it (and it’s a big one) is ocasionally it will just freeze and stop working until I lock the phone and turn it on again. (maybe you won’t have this problem just try it out)

I honestly don’t see the big deal with people hating on proton. It’s still open source it’s still encrypted and doesn’t mine your data that seams to check most of the boxes for me. The only problem I had with it was the default main client which shows upgrades to go unlimited all the time but I just use Thunderbird now.

Not sure, I’ve never used session but I think less tech savvy people would want to use signal because it is similar to Whatsapp, which they are used to.

Cryptomator is open source.

Fair point actually. I didn’t think of that.

Is using app manager the same as jailbreaking? Could that be a security risk?

People who use alternative clients are just using add blockers on the main cite anyway so i don’t see why YouTube should even try to stop them.

Piracy.

Been using searx for a while it’s awesome. When I finally set up my own home server I will self host it.

Sorry but there is no way I’m using imessages so many people I know have an android phone so that just won’t work. It’s closed source, has no encryption at all when contacting anyone who doesn’t have an iphone. And it’s apple, and apple sucks. iMessages is half the reason why I became anti capitalist it’s such a great example of the pitfalls of capitalism.

I love the idea of PeerTube it works really well the only problem is basically no one uploads to it so most of the people I want to watch just aren’t there.

I’m not sure if that’s true, as far as I know brave is completely de-googled while not being based on de-googled chromium.

Yeah those are 2 good points that I didn’t think about when writing my comment. I guess they aren’t bad in terms of the fact that they spy on you (browser like brave don’t and brave has a built in ad blocker so it is mostly unefected by manifest v3).

But chromium is bad in terms that it is so dominant in the browser space that google can just do things like manifest v3 and no one does anything about it because they won’t even consider for a moment that firefox is a viable alternative.

People almost stair at me in disgust when they see me using firefox because they think it’s a terrible browser even thought they don’t really know why. I think that goes to show how excellent of a job Google has done brainwashing everyone to think chrome is the only browser worth considering.

Overall I love competition and using the less popular competing product, since it’s the only way you can stop for proffit companies from screwing it’s users over.

Always have a offside backup for any data you deeply care about it’s never worth he risk.

Depending on your ISP sometimes you can just call them, ask to opt out of cg-nat and they will do it for free.

That’s true, but when I said switch to chrome I ment the official google Chrome which Google makes not a chromium fork. Just because it uses chromium doesn’t mean it’s bad.

There are ways to send all of your internet traffic over tor. For example tails os does it by default.

And tor is definitely more secure than a vpn. Any VPN company can just log all your internet traffic and sell it if they want to. Compared to tor you will need to gain access to at least 2 nodes that the internet traffic goes through in order to get any mildly useful information, that is significantly harder than with a VPN.

Also I just wanna say arguments like these are so fun to read

I’ve had the same experience with vpn’s requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.