uBlocks handling is very bad. NoScript was superior. Especially I could only block partial JS after it was loaded in uBlock.

To hide ones IP of course

That’s not the point. It was statet that each message is associated with the number. But it isn’t. The only way to achieve this in Signal is getting into your phone.

The document does not make clear using Tor is not a solution itself. It uses wrong statements, things that aren’t related to the topic and so on but on the other hand, they state (and so did you) Tor ‘is compromised’. That is not a ‘good’ document. It had some vibes of beging written by a competitor.

(And I do not say using Tor is safe or not I simply do criticize your source)

Oh my… This whole thread is literally the best of ‘Do you have something to hide?’, ‘Why should they use it?’, ‘What could happen?’, ‘That’s paranoid’ and so on.

Really disappointing.

DivestOS is the same guy managing the Mull browser. Maybe in future Signal or LibreTube. I tried to donate for Thunderbird but they don’t want money due to required mail and blocking specific mail services. I bought FairEmail and Netguard.

Other possibilities: Tor related services and PersonalDNSFilter

Divest is mich Mord than patches in Linaege. Please. Divest is far beyound Calyx in terms of privacy and security.

My recommendation:

• If you have (and I hope you don’t) a Pixel: Graphene
• If you are able to restrict yourself and accept to have not the easiest experience: DivestOS
• If you want an easy experience: /e/OS
• If you want the OS with most supported devices but you don’t care about privacy: Lineage

No need for Calyx, Iode and so on

Look for DivestOS supported devices. What I cannot recommend is Fairphone. Several Hardware issues, support refuses to accept them. The support in general is horrible.

Kind regards
A Fairphone 4 user with /e/OS

Next time send a letter. Letters will be banned.

Do never use Chrome. Use Firefox based Browsers (Librewolf, Mull)

I read that sideloading won’t be possible, app stores have to certify and apps as well and Kommission has to be paid to Apple even for alternative stores.

So: 👎

But it have [sic!] cool features so.

So what? If minimum requirements are not given, it can be as cool as possible. Only not so smart people think that’s a good deal.

Mull is better in terms of privacy and security but breaks some Websites and addons

Signal does not use google if it is not available, so no. If you think about privacy, stop using apps like Telegram and please stop using google services

What? Please stop spreading misinformation.

/e/ includes microG per default and thus calls google servers. /e/ includes unique identifyer per update call tracking its users. Graphene uses several proxy servers to hide user information, /e/ does not in similar way. And so on…

They use Graphene. That’s the point. Pixels are unfortunately the only supported devices. That’s why I won’t use Graphene as I would never support google. A pity, many do

It is google Android but they do not pay for the name so they call it ‘FairphoneOS’. It comes with all the standard GApps.

Addition:

• several unsolved (hardware) issues in the past
• security patches are far too late
• 8 years support
• Using the promoted /e/ results in loss of support (you habe to flash back FairphoneOS). Maybe this has changed as they are sellig phones with preinstalled /e/ by themselves
• Screws in the FP4 where very low in quality
• above-average batterie drain

The Smartphone is not completely degoogled. Please check before posting such statements. It can not be compared to Graphene. Graphene is far ahead.

See: https://divestos.org/misc/e.txt for a list of issues

/e/ is very slow in terms of security updates and they rely on some google services.

The only point you can make: If you want it easy and you don’t care about security and less google but not degoogled is okay for you, /e/ is your choice.

But please stay away from Fairphone. They have several hardware issues even in more than one generation (for example ghost inputs in 3 and 4) but they do not accept them and try to solve with software update which surprisingly did not work. And if you use /e/ you don’t geht support from FP side.

Fairphone is known to have several hardware related problems, but they usually ignore or do not acknowledge them. Recently they tried to argue a hardware problem (ghost inputs) can be solved via firmware update, but of course it couldn’t. Additionally you lose support for device when using custom roms (even /e/os). They only support google Android. You could buy from Murena but they can not help with hardware or firmware issues. Fairphone is very to patch their devices in terms of security.

But google is google. I would never give them money.