Signal minimizes metadata, they don’t store it and encrypts everything, phone number isn’t a issue as long you don’t need anonimity, not everyone have to like federation and there are a lot of third party Signal clients which works perfect and they are allowed, like Molly.

Ente.io is recommended by many, but never used it myself, since I don’t need.

So after we mentioned this, let’s take a look at all Mozilla’s bad sites.

Sussy comment. 🧐

Sure 👍

Brave itself also don’t recommend there “private Tab with Tor” over the Tor browser, they said as far I remember in a blog post that u still should use the Tor Browser for anonymity

It’s depending on the extension and what it does. As long it’s only for the connection and rly does not anything else it shouldn’t.

Hardened Firefox has better privacy protections, while Waterfox is more like a browser focused on customization, design, performance and privacy without a lot of breakage. So it’s a good browser for “normal” people, but if u want smth more secure try smth like LibreWolf.

You’re welcome

Would you say that Vivaldi is (at least) better than Chromium for security and privacy?

Yes, definitly. For example they removed completly the privacy sandbox stuff from the chromium code and also includes some additional privacy protections.

TL;DR: Basically, Brave has a lot of protections which vanilla chromium doesn’t have (Bounce tracking, Fingerprinting, etc.) or uBlock Origin which includes, Brave also removed a lot of trash like the Privacy Sandbox thing, etc. Also Brave announced on X/Twitter that they will continue supporting MV2, Chromium won’t. Brave is the best chromium-based privacy focused browser you can get currently, if you rly don’t like Brave, Vivaldi would be a good alternative, but is weaker than Brave, since it includes not all the protections or alternatives which Brave has.

No? Please inform yourself better, electron based applications aren’t the same like a web app in a chromium based browser with a bunch of extensions, but okay.

A quote from the Whonix Docs:

"The following guide provides a higher security and privacy standard than relying upon online services such as ProtonMail or Tutanota, that promise “encrypted email” in transit or storage. Online systems can still be broken by an attacker capable of exploiting JavaScript flaws or undermining certificate authorities that provide encryption certificates for websites; see Webmail. Further, online providers can be hacked or coerced by adversaries to provide access for extended periods. " This is about Online Email Clients, but it also counts for Web Apps.

Signal is your way to go, so was it for me.

Which has it’s reasons, since Web apps are very insecure.

The typewise was incorrect and confused me for that reason, thx for explaining how he meant it.

Don’t use Telegram for Privacy.

This video explains very well why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRQKQkvUfE

Is not depending on how many is rather depending on which, but the quote less is more still counts. So basically just as less as you can and you feel comfortable with.

“4”?

So, before you listen to anyone or do anything stupid. They/he/she basically have remote access to your computer and and any random Antimalware software is probaly not gonna help you in this case, depending on how the attacker got access to your computer, use your phone to read and follow the steps I write down and yes he could probaly have access to all your files on your device. So do the following things:

1. Cut off your pc’s internet connection

2. Backup everything importmant to a USB Stick or any other portable medium

3. Change all your passwords for ur accounts via another device and enable 2FA if possible

4. Reset your entire system

5. Move everything back on ur PC from ur portable Medium

6. Inform yourself abt security practices to prevent this stuff from happening again

Alternative solution is to get someone IRL to help u with that, someone who knows abt this stuff and can check ur pc irl.