With Signal you only need a SIM card to register the account via the Signal app on the phone. You can receive the SMS for registering on another phone. After registering you can simply use Signal over WiFi. If this is too difficult, XMPP with a good OMEMO client for E2EE is an option. Easiest to install and start with is perhaps DeltaChat, E2EE chat via email : https://delta.chat/en/ You only need to learn what to do if the E2EE is not working right away. They have a FAQ and hints in the app.

Oh.That’s too bad :(

Each time you start your Tor browser after having closed it, it could be using a different Tor circuit, isn’t it ? Maybe the Lemmy instances you’re using only blocked a few IP addresses that are Tor based. You can check what you are using each time, clicking on the circuit icon next to the lock icon in the Address bar.

I am posting on lemmy.ml and piefed.social via Tor browser without issues.

Neat.

And the fonts in terminal and music player look similar ? What font is it ?

EFF and Fastmail for email seems like a perfect match. And Fastmail has servers in the USA which EFF might appreciate :)

upvoted +1 for icewm

https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/nitter_ynh/issues/42 So maybe running a private instance still can work.

I’m using LibreWolf, Firefox and Tor browser since years (I love LW and TB, sometimes FF is needed for less restrictions for some sites). With LibreWolf I don’t see any more access denied messages lately. On Tor browser this happens from time to time, but I don’t see an increase. When using VPN I see these sometimes in LW and FF but didn’t notice an increase. I guess it depends a lot which web sites one visits. I usually stick to mainstream news, tech sites (like Stackexchange) and not much more. With LW and FF I often use the cool LibRedirect Firefox add-on to avoid some tracking and ads, maybe that helps. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Regarding Cloudflare : I think this really also depends on how the website user has configured their Cloudflare settings. For example with Anna’s Archives where I once in a while check for an e-book Cloudflare has not been offensive at all for the download links. Cloudflare is there checking, but no nagging (captcha), no blocking even with Tor browser. It is even possible that the default Cloudflare settings are pretty hostile towards Tor and VPN users, but that the website admins have no idea that it is so, and just followed some popular howtos how to configure Cloudflare for their site.

There isn’t a a lot of options for public facing organizations. It kind of sucks but it is true.

Really ?

Also email isn’t private or secure

Agreed.

and it will never be private or secure unless you use gpg everywhere with everyone. Even with gpg you still have a public identity.

One problem with GnuPG is that it will take a lot of effort to make normies use it.

Look up their MX records : Microsoft email

After all the fuzz about Mullvad having used Gmail for email and now self-hosting, have you checked what EFF uses for email ? So long privacy !

https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto

• Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start

• Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change

• But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun

• In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)

• We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

But does this mean that in 6 months I just don’t have an email there anymore?

Yes, sounds like it. I can imagine that they have decided for this path, instead of a server migration Skiff->Notion, to make sure that previous non paying Skiff users do pay at Notion if they choose for Notion.

CyanogenMod is discontinued. LineageOS is alive afaik.

You can have your own custom email domain and for the use cases you want to be “anonymous” use simplelogin or addy.io on top of that.

Still using Google fonts for this spreadsheet ? Why ?

Posteo, mailbox.org, Tuta.

• https://posteo.de/en

• https://mailbox.org/en/ (can have your own custom domain)

• https://tuta.com/ (can have your own custom domain but like Proton you cannot use K9-mail app and similar)

That’s really great news, and hopefully an inspiration for other companies to follow suit. Tearing the Google email monopoly into smaller pieces bit by bit :)

Just for the record, the other post mentioned by the OP can be found here : https://old.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/197a9pd/mullvad_uses_gmail_for_its_support/

Had not heard of JShelter before, thanks.