Vivaldi is probably your best choice, but I personally use ungoogled-chromium.

Man, I remember watching this guy about ten years ago. Great channel!

Syncthing. It’s not so much a backup as redundancy, though.

I have machines in the network that rarely get powered on, however, so I could possibly consider them offline backups.

No email provider will go to court for you for €3.99 per month.

From the start of the article:

Key Takeaways

• Proton Mail shared payment data with FBI through Swiss authorities via legal treaty
• Credit card payments eliminate anonymity despite encrypted email content remaining secure
• Third known disclosure reveals pattern of Swiss legal compliance over privacy promises

Viewer? Probably just Quick Look. It’s built into the Files app.

If you want to edit, just use Apple Photos. Everything is in there anyway.

Tox is interesting, though potentially less secure than Briar as they rolled their own encryption and have not been audited (afaik).

Neither do I. I use Mullvad Browser, which is based on Firefox.

Brave has its own content blocking system, which is on-par with uBO and better than uBO Lite. I tested it myself a while back, and Cover Your Tracks, Fingerprint.com, and CreepJS indicated that it was incredibly difficult to fingerprint: moreso than Librewolf, but slightly less so than Tor/Mullvad.

That said, however, PrivacyTests.org indicates that Librewolf blocks more tracking technologies than Brave, so it’s possible things have changed since I last experimented with browsers other than Tor and Mullvad.

Well, it does do a fantastic job of removing ads and reducing fingerprinting.

They are a provider as well as a client now.

Is this sarcasm?

More email clients:

• Linux/Unix
  • Evolution
  • KMail
  • Geary
• Android
  • Ltt.rs (JMAP Only)
• CLI
  • NeoMutt
  • aerc

I meant expose it publicly via the VPN.

#links2gang

Buy and use a burner phone while you’re there, and remember that VPNs are illegal.

• mpv should work with any video platform supported by yt-dlp.
• Haruna is a pretty good Qt frontend for mpv.
• You can use an RSS reader or something like pipe-viewer to manage your subscriptions.

Same

Ah. That’s not an issue for me, per se, but it is wholly unethical. I guess I’ll stop using it then…

Obsidian is proprietary, but I’ll look into Open Desk.

I trust Mullvad with my card number a lot more than Amazon, and I did mention that I would have paid with Monero if only I had any.

As for Posteo, great experiences all around. It mostly just gets out of your way and, unlike more popular providers, isn’t always telling you about how great it is. However, the SPAM filter could be better.

I use that too, and I also still have Libre.fm.

So far, though, I just haven’t seen any reason to stop using Last.fm.