People have been conditioned to believe that determination of an act’s morality is somehow changed when when carried out on a large enough scale, or when performed by certain entities.

Yeah, probably. The fact that you use mullvad is exposed to your financial institution, but as long as mullvad doesn’t keep logs (which has been legally tested to show that they do not), I don’t think it really matters all that much for most people.

Gross.

Not Lemmy, but mbin instance fedia.io doesn’t have any of that nonsense.

Does Wire still store metadata on who you message? That seems potentially more damaging than Signal’s phone number requirement, at least since the switch to being able to hide your number from everyone.

NoScript

Absolutely not; and everyone attaching their actual identity to it are insane imo.

Just go with GrapheneOS. Nothing else is even remotely close tbh.

It’s significantly better than all other options either way. Anyone who cares at all about privacy/security and can, should, in my opinion.