Nowadays I would recommend Zen Browser + uBO over Brave which has a nice user-friendly UI and supposedly disables telemetry. Before Zen Browser, disabling the crap Brave comes with takes a similar amount of effort as tweaking Librewolf’s aggressive privacy settings, but one of them is actually privacy focused and the other is run by a shady ad crypto company with a shady news feed that keeps pushing Fox News and a homophobic CEO. For mobile there’s Cromite.

OpenAI was also a non-profit until a few months ago

At least GrapheneOS isn’t something I’d pay for

I use a custom domain for basically all emails since I care more about portability than anonymity. Each account gets its own address, and if a site gets hacked and I start getting spam then I know which one it was. If I really wanted anonymity for something then I would use a randomly generated masked email.

privacytools.io is full of affiliate links and PG has shit tech bro recommendations like Brave browser

Tuta is used by the CIA for people who are afraid of Proton having ties with the CIA

I was on a trip for a few weeks to visit family, and just a few days after I got there my server went down and I lost access to all my stuff (I’m about to fix it when I return tomorrow). Stuff like that is why I will never self-host something as critical as email

With articles like this I wouldn’t recommend them.

Also Facebook Groups for obscure things, Facebook Marketplace, and even a lot of local political organizations primarily use Instagram

With meta on your resume you can easily find employment or freelance

And end up working for a company that’s just as shitty but worse pay, or finding less shit companies that don’t have the financial resources to employ more people

It doesn’t have to be “real weird shit” though for it to be a problem, coordinating about protests or other political activism on Signal is sketchy because of the phone number requirement, and just having your phone number be associated with another suspect phone number from inferred conversations is enough to potentially get you in trouble. Or if some national anti-abortion or anti-LGBTQ law happens and they put serious effort into enforcing it, activity on Signal, which is not anonymous, could be used against you and people you had conversations with. Yet I’ve seen multiple groups who shouldn’t be using Signal use it anyway and people thinking they’re anonymous on the platform because it keeps getting recommended. SimpleX and Cwtch have weaknesses also, but both of them take anonymity more seriously than Signal does.

I use it for getting modded APKs