Yes, they do.
‘But it’s end to end encrypred’ 🙄

You can use Google, Microsoft, Apple and co however you want, the problem is, what you use

Had the same problem but the search engine wasn’t only switched, startpage was completely removed.
I hope, this was an exception. Glad to see an already opened issue

No longer maitained since half a year ago. Please stop using and recommending it

Depends on the user.

For me it’s uBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie AutoDelete and Binnen-I be gone

Yes

They already has these but made changed (they would say enhancements) to it. Unfortunately nothing relevant was included, but we waited more than two month for an update and we got one with patch level from two month ago. That is ridiculous.

Updates are not every month like exactly the last version proofs. Unfortunately delayed security updates are the major issue when using /e/

The point was privacy. Calyx has the philosophy that sending data to Google is good so you do not appear as unusual. But they forget that you can’t be detected by Google as an unusual user if you do not connect to Google at all.

Nonsense. Lineage calls Google and is not privacy respecting. /e/ is much better in terms of privacy.

Yes

No it doesn’t. What is a need? It is for troll and spam and bot protection. How does the links show that there is no need for it?

What an answers. Completely nonsense

WhatsApp claim to use this. They do not show their code nor did they do any kind of audit. Therefore we have to assume that there is no encryption.

Oh yeah, that’s what parents need… Do you need some medical help?

Consent coming from those, that did not sign Tte contract obviously…

They blocked all the time. If you weren’t Blockes before, it was luck.

If privacy is your topic, iPhones are out.
You could check /e/OS for example with Fairphone that includes parental control feature.
Your parents do not matter in this context and it would be shameful to use such features.

Avoid tracking apps and tracking in apps. Avoid big tech like Meta and use Signal instead. If your child is not willing to do without Tiktok, Insta and so on, you won’t prevent. You can only explain. Remember: Divice literacy is not media literacy

making Tuta Mail the world’s first email provider that can protect emails from quantum computer attacks.

I don’t see how mails are secured when being sended from or to a Tutanota user and to or from a non Tutanota user. Those mails are only secured on their servers.

This. You can’t use your client, not on your phone nor on your PC. Therefore Tutanota was never a viable option

They changed some basics from Mull and decided to go other ways. That’s why I’m not using thus browser

Hell no. The oposite. He is in favour for chat control. Thus going to be the end for freedom and democracy in Europe

I don’t think so

But it’s Telegram. Avoiding laws, their registered office tells us enough. No encryption (only in a few cases after one’s own initiative). I don’t see a better option.

First of all, Signals code is open. Many people arround the world can check (and they already did) if the messenger lives up to its promises, is secure, private and so on. The others are not. Whatever you think they do, you have to trust a company like Meta. You wanna be that naive?

All those apps collect data: when you are online, where you are online, who is talking to who. Maybe also what you are talking about… we can’t know. For example: Some psychatrists do not use WhatsApp because using such an app in the waiting room would provide Meta with information like ‘you have mental health issues’. Signal on the other hand does verifiable not collect such data.

We also can see bahaviours coming from big companies to direct societies into a direction of their favor. They act like this, because maximum profit and power is what they are working for - they are simply companies. Signal on the other hand is a foundation which aims to provide security, encryption, privacy and fight against censorship (not in terms of content but in terms of countries blocking messenger services). What could be the more trustworthy base?

Btw Signal uses donations to pay their development and Servers so you can use the app for free. What does Meta use to handle costs for WhatsApp, Facebook and so on… Maybe they are charitable 🤞

To name differences:

• No adds
• No tracking
• Local backup (not on Google services or something like that)
• No exchange of personal data like phone number (they use a hash instead)
• You can use a pseudonym in form of a user name to get in contact with others (without telling them your phone number) and you can easily delete it and use a new one
• Signal created the Signal protocol which is called the gold standard, as it is the most secure and to encryption mechanism. They were the first so add resistance against quantum computers

And finally the better question is:
Why should the world use WhatsApp and co and not Signal? They do not have one advantage. If the whole world would use Signal, Threema or similar apps, it wouldn’t lose anything but would win so much. Think about that

/e/ has good but not perfect privacy. It still contains connections to Google and they added a tracking parameter to their update calls.

Their update cycles are very slow. You are usually one to two months behind monthly security updates. Full bulletins are a year behind and Webview is a problem as well. They ignore this point and do not realize, that Insuffizienz security is a privacy risk AS well.

So if you want good privacy with a convenient user experience and without thoughts about security, here you go.

Startpage.com does not

Session does not have much things in common with Signal. They removed good things and nowadays it is not good headlining when saying ‘fork’.

They changed some fundamentale that werde used for and in Mull so I do not recommend it yet

NewPipe needs VPN or Tor for privacy which usually gets blocked

Oh yes. They don’t know the page… They do know what and what IP.

There is no reason for considering Calyx at all. Graphene and Divest are better in terms of security and privacy.

If one want’s easy and convenient privacy, /e/ might be a valide option. No need for Calyx, Lineage or Iode

eMail is affected as well. There is no alternative. And mails are not private if not all participants use end to end encryption

A switch to what? To nothing?

To clarify: eMail, web chats, gaming chats, Signal, Threema and so on are affected as well

As mentioned before, you don’t need a cookie banner. You could simply inform, that you don’t collect data other than necessary session data.

The default is Fairphone OS. It is Google Android but they don’t pay to license the name ‘Android’, so they have to use an alternative name.

You can install /e/OS (even preinstalled by Murena) or DivestOS. Any other option doesn’t make sense as Divest is best in terms of security and privacy among all available custom roms and /e/ is most convenient (good but not perfect privacy, bad security but with MicroG, relock and App Lounge as well as Murena Cloud)

Fairphone is an option. Can be relocked. It is not important, what Fairphone supports but if it is supported by custom ROM developers. Fairphone is supported by most. But please avoid using Calyx or iode. They are both outclassed by Divest.

At least for /e/OS I can assure that relocking is simple enough. As there is partnership between Fairphone and Murena (/e/ developers) OTA updates are safe for future. Unfortunately the Fairphone support is horrible and /e/ is always too far behind security patch level.

Graphene only supports Pixel

Does not have swipe except when using a Google library