“The US and the UK trying to one-up each other for the worst tech laws and regs. “

Meanwhile, Australia … “Hold my beer”

You could also try Mint DE (Debian Edition) and get closer to the source (and ditch any of that Ubuntu crap).

I was in a training course recently run by 20 year veteran of Gov cyber security (not US).

When I asked him about GrapheneOS he said it was a good option and much better than vendor android or iOS, but that he uses Chinese phones (Huawei & Honor) for his personal devices exclusively these days.

Sounds like he had a pretty high turnover though and is obviously well aware of what information is shared/leaked and I imagine his devices are as locked down as they can be.

Surprised me though.

Could be an option if you really know what you’re doing. If not you might be better with a trusted provider like Graphene OS.

If only “greedy” was his only problem!

This is brilliant: “automating yourself from complexity only means you add layers of somewhere else”. Need to tattoo this on my forearm!

Makes me sick

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Have a look at Proton and Tuta (used to be Tutanova)

Are you using an endpoint in your country or overseas? I get massive variance when selecting servers further from where I actually live.

The sad thing is that people will buy this shit

Same shit coming to Australia

Mullvad servers have been targeted by YouTube. I’ve found consistent access with Freetube requires multi-hop using rented servers.

Depends in the VPN. I’m having to use multi-hop now with Freetube but with that turned on it is working consistently for me again.

I was a Guardian subscriber for a while until I looked at their “partners” that they were sharing my data with through the app.

What host os do you use?

There’s also the Mozilla.org Privacy Not Included report

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/

They have Renault as the least creepy and Nissan as the most!

Although I found I have problems with CAPTCHA with the .onion version

What could possibly go wrong?