Using goolag play services will always decreace your privacy.

Based

True but I believe SimpleLogin is based in France while Protonmail is based in Switzerland. Two seperate governments.

But its though SimpleLogin, not ProtonMail itself.

Unfortunately there is no way, it requires trust. Just like you need to trust your email provider to not have access to your emails.

A privacy email provider and email aliases for everything you sign up for.

Email Providers

Protonmail

Tutanota

Email Alias Providers

Simplelogin

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Why not just stick with dumb light bulbs? Why does everything need to be smart?

If you use cash, crypto or goldbacks (goldbacks are not popular however) each payment is one time. Another reason why cash, crypto and the goldback are based.

For calendar and contacts I use EteSync since it uses E2EE just like Filen. Nextcloud is good but it does not have E2EE as a supported feature. There is a broken E2EE plugin for Nextcloud but only for files.

The Filen client works fine for me on Linux. It runs in the background and does not pop up after boot.

Do you mean weather Filen desktop clients can sync folders between your computer and the cloud? The answer is yes you can. If it detects you edited a file in a watched folder, it will upload the file to the cloud.

I would recommend Filen over Nextcloud since Filen is E2EE.

I would also recommend nostr over Gab since nostr is censorship resistant.

Before you change your accounts over to your new email, use email aliases like anonaddy or simplelogin for your online accounts.

True, but to just diss signal and say, “lets use instagram bro” is pretty pathetic.

If the roommate suggested an alternative messenger that was privacy minded like Matrix , then that is cool.

The roommate is a idiot or a dick for saying Signal sucks and suggests spyware instagram.

If you do not have instagram, do not get it. If you have instragram, delete it.

TOR is the closest thing you will see to a “federated VPN”. You should always trust your VPN more than your ISP. There are open source VPNs like IVPN and Mullvad.

True, however it will require some grassroots movement/discussion to make it known.

A globalist leaning. Macron if I recall comes from big money in the financial world. The do not have a leaning poltically, they are amoral, dark triad.

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Why?

So? I do not use the crypto features in Brave browser or thr BAT rewards. You can easily opt out.

It is spendable fractional gold. 1oz of gold is thousands of dollars right now. This breaks gold down for smaller transactions.

Avoid all governmemt infused apps and services. Weather it is foreign or domestic.

Brave Search > Yandex

Why do right wingers hate freedom so much?

What? Am I on crazy pills? This has nothing to do with polticial leaning. Its man VS big gov.

If worse comes to worst, someone can fork Firefox and remove the in-browser censorship. That is the beauty of FOSS.

An very new alternative to cash are Goldbacks. Cash made of gold, designed to be inflation proof cash.

!goldback@lemmy.world

What? Talking to a cashier is dreadful? That is why your againsh cash?

Who cares. When you’re right, your right. I am sure many “far right people” are against stealing from your grandma. Agreeing to this common sense moral is bad?

+1 for filen.

It is good for privacy as long you do not install Google Play Services and also do not download any apps that is bad for your privacy. However GrapheneOS is a better option which additional security benefits.

Goldbacks. Not popular by many means

That is why it is important to promote the use of crypto and use crypto as much as possible. There are many online stores and services that take crypto.

If you wish to only use Monero but a store only takes bitcoin, use a swap service when paying.

I was not aware of this.

Not much to gain except more privacy and fully open source. A downside is there are less extensions available since it gets extensions from Open VSX Registry. Also there are extensions out there that are not good for privacy.

I still think VSCodium is worth it however.

FlorisBoard is feature rich.

Linux Mint is great for beginners and is simular to Windows.

By allowing lurking twitter, apps and services like nitter can exist as twitter proxies.

I wish more VPN apps had firewall settings built into it.

Graphene is the best option but lineageos is also good and covers many devices. The con of lineageos is the lack of hardened security which graphene provides.