if you have the option, set: https://beacondb.net/

LICE

I believe you will happy with anytype:

https://anytype.io/

the source code is made public and your notes/database are encrypted by default. You can even sync locally from your phone/laptop without internet.

The only two negatives I have found are that the mobile app has 1 tracker embedded into it (amplitude) and you dont have a choice about your encrypted data syncing to their servers.

Zen browser was my favourite but this put me off:

https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/

Im impressed that you managed to do this, youtube for me is the last thing Im struggling to give up on.

grayjay is a happy medium for me - you can create your own feed from different platforms (odysee, peertube, nebula and youtube etc) and adverts are blocked

Ungoogled chromium looks good to me. I wish this author tested mobile browsers as well

I was really enjoying Zen browser aswell

Canonical is the company that create Ubuntu

https://canonical.com/

have you tried heliboard?

or use a linux phone like flx1 or sailfish.

https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

https://sailfishos.org/

organic maps is great, also magic earth

host your own AI using: https://ollama.com/

this paired with “AnythingLLM” is pretty powerful, and you dont have to worry about data being sent anywhere

ENTE for photo storage: https://ente.io/

Crypt.ee is also an option.

Have a look at: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

Shouldn’t make a damn difference! Ask this person to explain their thought process

Grayjay!

https://grayjay.app/

Can’t you set Libredirect to embed videos?

Either a frontend or https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tasomaniac.openwith.floss/

“Divest” has stopped maintaining their apps

From my privacy trials on ollama - any model downloaded does not know the date or time and cannot access the internet.

If you are still sceptical you could download something like alpaca on flathub and once youve acquired a model, remove internet access etc through flatseal.

I can tell you how to view the subreddit, but you wont be able to post still

Ive been meaning to flash this onto my fairphone but the websites instructions are a bit confusing (I’ve installed calyx, eos and graphene on other phones)

Its owned by Kape technologies - a former malware distributor that operates in Israel:

https://x.com/Snowden/status/1438291654239215619

• another recommendation for mullvad

The blockchaim & finance topic doesn’t really affect me, as long as I can use it for watching videos then it works. (and I’m not helping google)

In regards to the hate content, I would rather have the ability to self censor these things (mute/block) then have the platform itself decide what I am allowed to see.

Ive been using these front ends for a while now and there are constant issues.

Ive switched to http://odysee.com

its now ad free, and Ive found that: mental outlaw, Louis Rossman, someordinarygamers, Brodie Robertson, tech lore, switched to linux, the Linux cast and loads of others are also on the platform.

+1 for crypee

crypt.ee

Ive recently managed to do this;

Settings> Network & Internet> Hotspot & Tethering> Allow Clients To Use VPN

What I don’t understand though, doesn’t using mullvad automatically set their own DNS?

Would flatpak mitigate this?

I’ve also had issues with brave search on mull, whenever it decides It to check if I’m a robot it says that mull is missing a requirement

Fairphone + DivestOS

https://syphon.org/ is worth a look, its still in alpha but is very promising

I loved Joplin until I realised that your data is stored (locally) unencrypted.

I moved to https://crypt.ee