Sure you can go super private with more inconvenience with Graphene but there is a less drastic compromise. I turn off the advertiser id, block ads via DNS, use DDG and Brave for search, and browse via IronFox and Brave.

That way you keep the convenience of Google wallet and other services without the same degree of tracking and even if they get some info you won’t see the ads.

I’m really anxious about what they are doing to F-Droid though.

I use it but it is slow with notifications and I don’t like the way both sides have to agree to deleting or self destruct messages.

I second Kvaesitso. Great list though.

No. Wife and kids only use the Big tech apps. I think ads and tracking don’t bother them as much as they do me.

I’m shocked and disappointed. But I also moved to kvaesitso when the ad company bought it.

There isn’t an RSS feed for Discover I could just access with a feed reader?

I use Firefox with Phoenix on the desktop so the standard profile is just a little less strict than librewolf and the hardened profile is a little more strict. https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix

Firefox. Hardened via Phoenix https://github.com/neuroradiology/Phoenix-for-Firefox?tab=readme-ov-file

No mention of phoenix here? I moved from Librewolf over concerns it wasn’t keeping up and this project does much like the arkenfox stuff does by using the current firefox and just changing some settiings and policies so you are never behind the latest version of firefox. Check out their comparisons: https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison#safe-browsing

I used librewolf until there was some concern about them updating in a timely manner.

Now I used Firefox with Phoenix to maybe get the best of both worlds and IronFox on mobile.

Fair enough, but so far that hasn’t bothered me. I’ve used librewolf for a year which seems to have most of the same hardening and it doesn’t break the particular sites I use.

So far, the only site that didn’t work was bsky and the solution was a simple permission.

I just installed it without difficulty and it apparently auto updates after that but I am interested in the other criticisms. Where did you read them?

Correction. It does.

It looks like Ironfox doesn’t use Firefox sync?

And also if you don’t show email or phone number anywhere, as I don’t either.

I really don’t mind the single spam I’ve gotten so far and I accepted the request just because I enjoy playing with them.

SimpleX seems pretty nice but I had enough trouble converting my family to Signal. Did you there isn’t feature parity between the iOS and Android versions?

I was going to say I miss nothing but you reminded me of what I really miss. Mac Preview. It was so versatile and did a lot for a little built in program.

I used to use Sushi for gnome but it never did all file types and it stopped working for me a while back. I have never gotten it to work right again since.

Any day now

Good point, I actually didn’t think of that. But it wasn’t a bot. Anyway, I guess that’s the point of being able to throw away usernames.

I asked him to send me the check and just send it to my address since he had my Signal number. I’m expecting it before Christmas.