What’s the point with what I said? The official repo has apps that are not signed by the developer but by this third party (repo mainteners)

It works fine from the developer build. Better not use the app signed by F-Droid. Also there are two releases of Aves: Aves Gallery and Aves Gallery Libre

Best experience you’ll have is from Accrescent

On Accrescent* would be better

What country are you even talking about? How on Earth can you burst in and shout a mysterious country’s laws without context?

We’re not your flatmates

Why would you burn a small forest to do that? If you don’t want to pay a service and know how it has to be done (you would have to develop your agent), do it by hand

I think you can deploy Matrix with Yunohost, which is very convenient as a first self hosted server

In addition to my answer to your original request, I can inform about stuff related to WhatsApp.

You can use WhatsApp on a Matrix server with a bridge. You can either selfhost or find a server which has the WhatsApp bridge.

There is also Beeper - now acquired by Automattic (WordPress, …) - which is a company matrix server with many bridges (they employed the person developing most of them). You can use a FOSS matrix client like Element X or their own client which is not FOSS but requires far fewer permissions than the WhatsApp app

Molly would be the independent and FOSS Android client

But that’s not a replacement for WhatsApp + Signal was funded by Radio Free Asia (under CIA control), which is something to consider

People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)

I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid

There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online

BTW you don’t neee an external app to remove network permission on GrapheneOS

I fell for it, but haven’t actually used it yet. I’ll stick to Deepseek, at least I know where they stand + they are not the ones that can use my data against me and probably won’t hand them over to western governments (mine)

I think Louis Rossman has a video explaining why F-Droid is not great

Probably also Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser, but I don’t know them much

Vanadium

I don’t think you can install it outside of GrapheneOS though

Sentences?

OP not your pet

You mean Matrix, surely

I’ve looked into the sources because that was weird to me as well.

It’s because the web “client” is using nginx as a local web server. You’re selfhosting the web client

The app still is 100% a frontend js client

OP did link to their public instance of the client, but gives more opportunities

Oh that’s really great news. Thank you for mentioning that!

FUTO keyboard is actually a very good replacement. I think I stopped using it because it didn’t do correction on multiple languages at the same time. Maybe there is an option for that now

You’re wrong on one thing though. A good portion of tracking either takes place in the client or is enabled on the endpoint.

Matrix client on a server with bridges to your proprietary chats

Well if you can stay pressed on the power button it should restart the device and it will be encrypted, with no biometric unlocking

Or Grayjay then

Google does listen, what do you mean? They have a feature in form of their voice assistant to make sure it can

There are browser extensions that block calls to known spy domains like Google ones

This is why Matrix is infinitely better than Signal. This and not having been funded by the CIA through Radio Free Asia. Even with weaker architecture

I didn’t know how to link to the exact video :(

Found a really funny one with two kids doing a skit about a drink in their garden, then an Helicopter crashes in their yard

Edit: this is a montage and the helicopter is part of the skit but unexpected turn of events

Corporate app frontends track everything you do and see. They can record your mouse movement and watch it again, they track your scrolls, every button click, and even sometimes what you type in inputs even when you don’t actually save them (like an Instagram comment you decide not to post, or a video search you don’t actually search). There is a lot of tracking done on the frontend. Some of it could also be done in the backend (and a part of that is), some not

I don’t have any answer for the point where you would not trust Google even for the hardware (even though I don’t think there is any risk on the current devices)

But concerning the “don’t want to support Google” an easier answer is to buy a second-hand Pixel

This has nothing to do with the subject. Unfortunately for all of us, you didn’t have to pass any test

It’s crazy to fear for Chinese espionage/tracking more than European or US one

No? If you accept tracking while on the page, this has consequences on your current session

It’s run by private companies, they’ll sell your location, face, habits, what you do and like in real life in addition to your online profile. Then they can do whatever they want. Sell you things, manipulate what you think

In part, yes it is. In the part where you want privacy from tech corporations

I never understand the presence of right wing people in privacy discussion actually. After everything they deliberately give up to either a fashist state or corporations

Plus, Grayjay is made in part by the guy in the post picture

Congrats on joining the GrapheneOS enjoyers

They stopped doing that unfortunately, I think. I struggled to find all 6 apps

I want Proton to replace Google. I wish for that. And during this time we can use open source software as well