“I don’t care if they have all my data. I don’t have anything to hide”

GrayJay

Yeah, I figured it out after I posted. I’ll give this a try for a while

Can I use Brave search as default in firefox?

Say something persuasive.

How can we answer this question without knowing your dad or any more information?

Signal

Sure, yeah, anti-big tech.

No it hasn’t. Back this claim up with some evidence

Try deleting your account, that should solve the problem

Is this experience or conjecture?

I just told everybody that I only reply on Threema

if they can’t be arsed to use another app (which is an extremely effortless task to do) then they are probably not worth staying in contact with

So if someone said you have to use their messagee of choice - Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix, FB Messager, Discord - you’d have no problem meeting them there because it’s effortless, yeah?

Came here to say exactly this only not as well

Can someone explain why this is good or bad?

Can’t remember

I tried it a while ago but found the predictions were bad. Maybe I’ll give it another shot

Yeah, it’s been on and to answer questions below, no it doesn’t affect my battery.

I’m having small problems like suggesting capitalized words in the middle of a sentence and suggesting capitalized words as a different word than the non capitalized ones. Like it’ll suggest “That” in the middle of a sentence and also “that” at the same time, so two of the three slots are taken up.

I’m trying really hard to not revert back to Swiftkey (again, as I do every time I run out of patience with a new privacy respecting keyboard), and I don’t even use swipe typing. I’m still hoping that the more I type the better the predictions will get but after using it for a few months I feel like I’m just adapting to bad predictions rather than the predictions getting better.

No one is moving off Signal, don’t listen to him

Aren’t they all Safari anyway?

After looking at the article about why not to use Signal it sounds like you’re looking for any excuse no matter how small to not use something. If that’s the case you might as well not communicate with anyone at all.

What if I just never connected it to the internet?

Why did Proton adding a Bitcoin wallet cause you to look elsewhere? If it’s a product you’re not interested in, just don’t use it. Otherwise you’re stuck using providers that offer exactly what you want, no more and no less, which seems like such a narrow needle to thread, you’ll never find something or can’t stick with it for long.

I don’t think the email alias thing comes with Mail Plus, it’s part of Proton Pass. You either need to get Unlimited which includes all of their products or pair mail plus with the paid version of Pass. There’s a chance I’m wrong because I have Unlimited and haven’t really explored it, but look into it before you commit.

Deny it wifi credentials and it has nowhere to send the stuff it’s spying on

I’ve been using a Chromecast with Google tv, and have deprived my tv my WiFi credentials. 90% of what I watch is from my Plex server, 9% other streaming services, 1% digital antenna.

It’s not an ideal situation but as you know because you asked the question, the privacy situation in TVs is dire. Otherwise you’re doing ridiculous shit like plugging computers into it or whatever.

To be clear, this is a feature, not a bug

You don’t even need a store, you can install through the apk here https://signal.org/android/apk/

Signal does not collect metadata.

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Ok, in like 2 seconds of looking into Wire I see that the app is rated 2.8 stars to Signal’s 4.5 and under the “data collected” section it lists name, email, phone number, user ID, photos, and videos. Signal lists phone number.

Because Signal is awesome and the gold standard for privacy

Grayjay

I know but not all websites do

I’ll use passkeys if and only if they work with my password manager (Proton Pass). If not, I’m sticking with the password (and 2fa if they offer it)

Same.

Proton just bought Standard Notes, so keep an eye out for changes there. Otherwise, I use Obsidian but I have it sync to my home server so I can access the same data from my phone and computer.

It does swipe. If Swype is something different, then no

Awesome. Every so often I try a few different keyboards but always go right back to SwiftKey because the predictions are so good. I’ll give this one a shot

Also, I have a ton of aliases through Proton. I’m not going to put each on into haveibeenpwned

I use pocket casts and I tried switching to antenna pod because of a thread like this one and came right back to pocket casts. The deal breaker for me was no skip forward 30 seconds (e.g. ads) from the lock screen.

But doodlebug69 needs to accept a message from you before you can see their profile info.