There are so many different “privacy browsers” for Android, that it can be hard to keep track of them. FFUpdater is the one place I can find all of the good browsers, as well as information about each (including Warnings on why you may not want to use them).

It’s good to hear you get less captchas with Mullvad. At least for me, when using Surfshark + Private Browsing, I am basically guaranteed to get a ton of captchas on any Google searches.

Yes I agree Surfshark has done some weird things. I find it weird that it’s actually the same company now as NordVPN, but they don’t make it clear.

Regarding performance, Surfshark is decent speed but still slower than not using a VPN. The more annoying thing is that I get a lot more captchas when using Surfshark. I think these issues are common for all VPNs, though I haven’t tried Mullvad yet (I will when my Surfshark subscription ends).

Funny thing is I started using Surfshark just before they started all the YouTube sponsorships. Them doing so many sponsorships actually made me trust them less somehow, if that makes sense.

Mullvad “appears” to be more trustworthy but maybe they are just better at marketing that image. They still cost twice as much as Surfshark.

Is it noticeably faster than Surfshark for you?

As in the actual data is bad, inaccurate, opinionated and doesn’t explain anything. Half of the chart is just “Cloudflare lol”, like at least explain why.

It’s a chart that looks useful at first glance, but the more you look at it the less you learn.

StartPage also blocks VPN usage.

Ancedotal but Startpage works perfectly fine with VPN for me. Certainly better than Google, which works but requires a lot of annoying captchas.

Also the actual diagram is bad.

That sounds like so much work! I mean even just the website design, you’d need to extensively learn front-end best practices, CSS, JavaScript libraries… Clicks link

No problem! Let me know if you have questions. Docker was new to me a few years ago, now I work with it professionally.

You need to learn how to write a Dockerfile (plenty of guides online). Not that a Dockerfile is different from a compose.yaml file (in development I use both).

It should not be enabled by default.

Do you remember what the original was?

This is a common misconception. Podman has similar commands to Docker CLI but it’s not a “drop-in replacement”. Depending on your usage, you might run into things that don’t work the same.

Even if I did fully trust my instance, I also would have to trust any instance I message with.

I personally just use Lemmy for public comments.

Unless I run a Lemmy instance myself (which is possible), I have zero reason to trust an instance’s admins.

Even if my instance’s admin happens to be the founder of privacyguides.org, that doesn’t mean he will never read any “private” messages (or be forced by someone else to hand them over).