Have you considered just buying a domain to use as a catchall address. That’s what I use for the small % of services that refuse my simplelogin emails.

Just a reminder these safes are not actually fireproof. They are fire resistant and people should check what they are rated for before buying.

While these tools are nice to get a jist of things they are prone to mistakes and misinterpration. You should not be relying on them if your threat model requires you actually know what data your giving away instead of just being curious.

It has no clue who you are using tor. Just switch the circuit your on.

All of your criticisms have nothing to do with privacy or security. Some of them, like what you said about mullvad, is rooted in fud. Which tells me we have different priorities when it comes to browser choice.

I will agree the brave shit is annoying but hopefully Brave Origin will fix that. Their fingerprint and tracker protection is undeniable though.

Now that SecureBlue has made Trivalent available with its selinux architecture that should be everyones go to if your on a Fedora based system.

I’d take Mullvad or Brave on Windows over this

I’d also use Safari over this for anything in Apple ecosystem

Nobody serious about privacy or security should be recommending you keep using the pixel 6 after it goes EOL. Until then using GrapheneOS is a great choice.

After it’s EOL, if you can, you should get a newer phone. If not you should switch to an OS like Lineage (which is not that private or secure) that focuses on keeping older phone useful.

It hasn’t stopped countries like France, and Italy (not a complete list just examples) from being some of the least privacy friendly western governments.

I think its great that Europe is looking to rely less on US tech but nothing about whats going on with Europe (especially within the EU) makes me think privacy is a focus.

The obvious alternative would be Jami

Yes.

Eventually there will be a non pixel phone that works with grapheneos. This has already been announced.

https://github.com/TylerWilliamson/QuickWeather

Like I said, maybe it worth it to you. Some people commenting like a distress pin is some sort of pancea.

That is highly dependant on the country you do it in.

People, if you are taken into custody and are forced to unlock the phone and you wipe the phone instead, you are living in a fantasy world if you think you can’t get in trouble for that.

Maybe that’s worth it but let’s not kid ourselves that there wouldn’t be consequences.

Remember plausible deniability is a social concept not a legal one. It might of helped you get out of being grounded but it won’t save you from jail time.

Why? Both of those options are worse. You can’t be a privacy respecting service and not allow VPNs. If you do allow VPNs, it is going to force you to sometimes blanket ban an IP because bad actors use VPNs as well.

Typically this only happens on free VPN servers because people who abuse these services also realize they are going to get banned. The easiest solution is to use a premium VPN or signup with your actual IP address (depending on your threat model).

My guess is that whatever VPN server your connected to had someone else who was spamming or doing something else they weren’t supposed to. This caused the email addresses associated with that IP to be flagged.

One of the drawbacks to a VPN is you share your IP with strangers who sometimes do stuff you get penalized for.

The protocol is cool, the implementation becoming proprietary and enshittified is a bummer.

Stunner legal entity follows the law…

Fellas your VPN is not going to break the law for you.

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf