Exodus is mandatory on Android or alternatively also the similar PrivacyScanner

Agree,also Fairphone is a very good solution. Maps have a lot of alternatve solutions, more now as Google discontinued it’s Streetview feature, the only thing not present in other maps. Most other Google services have also pretty good alternatives, also linkeable Android Smartwatches have it (e/OS is normally good compatible with Android aps, exept maybe limited with Google ones, due to the lack of corresponding APIs)

https://alternativeto.net/software/google-maps/?license=opensource&p=2&platform=android

https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

90%bof the current web is controlled directly or indirectly by Google, M$, FB, Amazon, even OpenSource. It’s a shopping mall with surveillance by gov agents and AIs in every corner, not so far from Minority Report, not a model for the future if you want some integrity and sovereignty. It’s currently almost irrelevant if you use a VPN, TOR or whatever. they identify you in seconds if they want, more if you are browsing with mobile, knowing in every moment exactly where you are, well by GPS or triangulation.

The open web is more and more an data market of big corps, I see the future more in a decentralized web, I2P or similar.

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https://murena.com/kids/

Any social network or other web service, also Lemmy, is forced to give the user data it has, when there is an court order.

Correct, but P2P and Steganography are the only valid resources for eg.Periodists in oppressive countries. In western world all this isn’t really needed, there are enough some basics and common sense to protect sensitive data. I don’t think that any of the Lemmies here are from North Corea, because people there can’t even access other than the own state social network or even use other than the goverment server and ISP.

100% privacy don’t exist in the moment you go online, you can only patch the biggest holes, protecting somewhat against the surveillance of companies, but not against goverments when you are in a criminal investigation, irrelevant what you do, you cant avoid to be targeted if you act against the law, the more than 3000 criminal websites seized by the authorities in the Onion show what are the possibility they have in the web when needed.

Email is always a traceable identification if you don’t use an mail with alias features or front-end…

If you don’t post suspicious or radical content, even in oppressive regimes there are no problems. This also means that in these regimes using encrypted messages can be suspicious and a very close look from the authorities. In these regimes, then, it is often used to exchange problematic messages through steganography, that is, to hide these messages in innocent images, texts or music that do not arouse suspicion. Some OpenSource apps and services:

• https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.openstego.com/
• https://steghide.sourceforge.net/
• https://stegcloak.surge.sh/

etc…

There are always manners to show the middle finger to these regimes

If you live in an oppresive regime, there isn’t any posibility to use anonymously an social media, there the only possibility is using a P2P communication system, eg. https://securebit.chat/ or similar. All other, like Lemmy or other from the fediverse are traceable, even with VPN or even not accessible in such regimes with heavy controled servers.

Apps from Google Play are clickbaits and spam sources by definition.

Tons of alternatives out there

https://alternativeto.net/software/github/

I use imgur rarely, without account. Sharing images in sites like Lemmy, Mastodon, and other ActivityPub sites don’t need an image sharer, images can be uploaded directly or simply with copy paste. Hosting or backup images and any other files with Filen or Koofr, both 10 GB for free and from the EU (Germany and Slovenia)

I don’t think so, all data are on your device and in the one of the other user. No man in the middle. It’s similar to the paleolitic finger protocol (which still can be used after more than 50 years), but military grade encrypted.

Example of the finger protocol write this in your commandline for an message from me:

finger zerush@happynetbox.com

Yes, certainly a bad joke by this oversensible Lemmy US Flanders filter 🤬Forbidden Use of Carnal Knowledge it (to avoid censoring)

Well, it’s nice the developement of a new independent engine, but I’m old and not sure to see the first stable and usefull release of it. The engine is by far the most complex part of the browser, with the need of an big team to develope it for several platforms (even linux distros are not always compatible one with another)

Nowadays Blink is the most advanced engine, because nobody else than Google has the infrastructure and the amount of devs working on it, even with the power to modify web standarts. This is at the same time also the problem.

Yes, Chromium is 100% FOSS and everybody can modify and gutting it to his like, but always depends on the update releases from Google. The only solution is an independent Chromium team and community.

A new browserengine would change nothing, because it comes 20 years late in a market of nearly 80% Chromium in an web optimized by it, like dozends of other indie browsers with a handfull users each or even abandoned out there (eg Otter and others) even the grandfather of Blink, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by the German KDE, forked by Google and Apple.

This is the main problem, changing the infrastructure in companies which use Windows, Certainly Microsoft EU is way more privacy focused (forced by law) than Microsoft US which use even keyloggers and sharing data with Towerdata and a lot of others. But this, even so, companies and administrations use more and more alternatives to Windows apps and services The EU has tons of good and even better alternatives to those from US corps, it’s not a tecnical problem, but an political and burocratic one for companies and administrations to change, not so for the normal user, who can easily change his setup to his like from a huge catalogue of EU soft and services.