i see no reason to use that over normal ubo. even in china i believe you can get ubo…?

i thought simplex was completely decentralized p2p. can’t it simply be forked?

pretty good, the built in adblock isn’t much sophisticated tho. fenix with ublock origin is superior unless you really need chromium.

webview is the one embedded with your os, it could be outdated etc. it’s just not better than running a hardened chromium browser like cromite then.

isn’t firefox focus a webview wrapper?

fyi there is also redreader, no idea if you can still register from it tho

which client are you using? the element client on androud and desktop/web seems to be pretty glitchy.

I tried using Jami with a very technical friend. The android version kinda seemed to work, though a little glitchy. The desktop linux/windows version was complete garbage, completely unusable.

How is it better than Jami? Genuinely asking.

I believe Wireguard/OpenVPN/etc profile availability is more important than Google Play Store.

Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendation!

I’m trying to move a friend groupchat away from discord and there are users on all those platforms.

Are you hosting your own server? How’s it working with multi devices one one account (phone and desktop usually)? I’ve experimented with prosody a bit and it seemed like only one machine was able to receive message at one time, so the phone and computer quickly got out of sync.

Sorry for asking too many questions, it’s hard to find these things easily.

may i ask what clients you use for xmpp? conversations.im is the obvious best choice on android but not sure on ios, macos, linux, windows etc

pluma is good. i used it until switching to vim/emacs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluma_(text_editor)

imo tbh anything with lineageos is good enough. no gapps, microg if needed, and afwall/adaway(if that’s impossible, rethinkdns).

if you haven’t installed their games there’s nothing they can do.

I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I’m sure it’s not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.

btw my work website also checks if i’m active/focused on a tab or if I clicked off it, this addon spoofs it well https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/always-visible/

I’d love it if it actually worked… it doesn’t.

It’s extremely buggy. I’d rather use IRC, but the features it lacks isn’t ok for most people these days.

For me it’s Discord, I can’t find a good enough self hosted alternative with all the features me and my friends want.

Install Win10 LTSC, install explorer7, disable all the telemetry bs (services/policies)

Emails aren’t good. They’re still miles better than any of the alternatives.

imho lineageos is ok enough for privacy and older android versions still remain usable. so I still have a 2013 phone that does everything I need.

sure it might be insecure but I just do less with it.

I’ll just write down instructions etc on a libreoffice document and put it on the desktop or somewhere easily accessible

if it’s windows i would use rdp over tailscale. don’t expose it to the internet.

oh shit. I used to use this but removed later after realizing it wasn’t open source.

Sorry if I sounded mean but this is a privacy community and search engine is literally where you go to search for things you don’t know.

Have you tried searching before commenting?

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

Try Universal ADB Debloater, you can probably remove most spywares from it. Surely I can’t trust it as much as a FOSS rom, but from my quick network inspection my samsung stock rom with UAD makes pretty much no network connection at all.

universal adb debloater and rethinkdns

run the thing on an isolated container/vm? not much else you can do, your face/audio can’t be hidden anyway

nice script sir, tysm

not sure about win/mac, but for android yes they do keep record of stuff like what apps are being launched and upload/sync to google account. it’s not hidden though… it is(was) literally available on google account history or something (was about 7 years ago)

regarding keystrokes there was a case of a famous chinese keyboard app doing dubious stuff. not sure if i can say it’s on a os level but i’m pretty sure more than a few chinese phones ship with that. https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/

it’s not perfect, it loses tons of data for some reason. there’s also pretty much no way to properly archive documents in google docs (their history/metadata)

fuck google

Fennec is just upstream firefox with a few patches applied during build afaik, so they probably forgot to remove what upstream added. Nothing to worry about imo.

same, i just say I don’t do instagram and tell them my local whatsapp equivalent’s id or phone number. I’ve tried using instagram a few times but it can’t be used anonymously at all.

already being an apple user maybe you can buy your own domain and tie it to apple’s mail service. when you want exit just connect the domain to something else.

maybe jshelter can help?

codeberg seems to be working well for me. i got too many cloudflare captchas with gitlab.com.

just don’t bring your daily driver phone, leave it home. carry some secondary phone you can use for camera or navigation (offline maps) or fm radio