:/ Thanks for the report !

Like every VPN company that operate their own entry nodes…

Did you tried NymVPN ? I am curious if you can enter their mixnet from within China as they strongly advertise their product as censorship-resistant tech for freedom and activists.

I agree on this with the exception of PIA.

• Marketing is BS like most VPN
• Company is based in the USA
• They do analytics
• You cannot register “anonymously”

It’s not the worst VPN you could choose but there is better options.

Or maybe Miraheze but it doesn’t sem federated either

Hosting a wiki isn’t that expensive it’s basically texts and some lightweight pictures. The whole english wikipedia is around 109GB of data.

If you don’t feel confortable with CLI tools their is graphical front-ends for yt-dlp such as Open Video Downloader or stacher but using yt-dlp is always better

https://privacytests.org/android

I think brave provide a slightly better experience overall, and privacy is a bit stronger too. Cromite might be better in some areas but DDG has better tracking protection against analytics from companies such as Adobe, Faceboo, Google, etc… by default.

DDG mobile browser had a contreverasy with allowing Microsoft tracking (DDG search engine is using MS Bing’s back-end) but in other hands brave is also quite contreversial with affiliate link injections, optionnal “private ads” with Web3 advertisement. Cromite seems cleaner but is a community run project and there is no company backing it.

Honestly I haven’t used it in years but it’s definitely not the worst option you can choose on Android.

Zulip or Mattermost if you want basically a free (as in freedom) and open source alternative to Teams and slack But as you mention self-hosting isn’t really an option it can become expensive.

Maybe a mix of Signal and Jitsi Meet (there is several public free instances) if you want a good balance between privacy, price and efficiency

Maybe look at the kSuite from Infomaniak it’s not the best but might be a good balance too for your team.

Are you using Obtanium ? RSS Feed ? Or the app notify you and you manually download and install the update ?

So currently this is my recommendation for web browsers for Android.

Chromium based (best for security on Android)

• brave, disable cryptocrap, telemetry sponsor background and you’re pretty much good to go.
• cromite, an active fork of bromite which is basically an upgrade of ungoogled chromium
• Vanadium, if you are using GrapheneOS

Firefox based browser (none support per-site isolation as of today)

• IronFox, a active fork of Mull, basically the most harden FF flavor on Android
• Fennec, basically a fully libre FF flavor

Yes this is more correct. They wanted to provide to their user an alternative store that meets their security criteria so GOS users can download and install other apps safely.

The issue is that any firefox-based browser on Android lack of per-site isolation unlike chromium browser. It’s a security issue that Mozilla doesn’t seem interested in fixing. And it does impact every fork such as IronFox (previously Mull)

I am mainly using Firefox engine on all my computers but on Android I am using either Vanadium when on GrapheneOS and a tweaked brave when not.

For me personnaly it has nothing to do with supporting Google’s monopoly on web tech or not. It’s not about telemetry either, it is a security concern.

I think you are looking for one of these

• NotesNook (best free tier in my opinion)
• logseq (like an open source obsidian)
• Joplin (cloud is paid but you can selfhost)
• Standard Notes (only support plain text on free tier)

I don’t know why a e-reader would need location data in order to improve the app…

Yeah the source code for generative.fm is available here

• Noice Androiid and WebApp
• Blanket GNU/Linux Flatpak
• Generative.fm Online and Docker
• EasyNoise Android

The developer, Bilingify LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy. Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Location Usage Data Diagnostics

Source : Apple App Store

Yeah but the privacy policy isn’t great IMO