And you can also buy virtual debit cards With crypto

If so it can still be forked because it’s open source. So not an issue imo

Why not use KDE connect instead and skip the cloud?

Then you even have less privacy. Heard if UBO registers?

Having an Iranian close friend. They’re culturally in no way aware of why privacy is useful and important. So I have a complete profile on his phone with all my private data that’s synced to every service that syncs contact details. My pics and videos are uploaded to big tech and used to train AI because of the functions they provide to improve quality or made other modifications.

Looks like a hacky and far from perfect approach here. In the gap where you lose your VPN connection and the script triggers, there’s a timeframe that your torrent software will leak a lot of data. A better approach here is to enforce only VPN connections via your firewall. Whitelist outgoing connections to your VPN destination, blacklist the rest. On Linux make the torrent systemd unit also have a dependency on the VPN connection, that it: your torrent service won’t start if the VPN service isn’t active. So in case your VPN disables at some point,the firewall will still do its work.

Posteo yes and addy.io for using custom domains for incoming emails

Why should that be an issue? It’s fully open source