Sonalder

:/ Thanks for the report !

Like every VPN company that operate their own entry nodes…

Did you tried NymVPN ? I am curious if you can enter their mixnet from within China as they strongly advertise their product as censorship-resistant tech for freedom and activists.

NYM is a next-generation mixnet with a VPN product built on top of it. Obscura is a VPN that provide a first hop then send traffic to a Mullvad hop.

I agree on this with the exception of PIA.

• Marketing is BS like most VPN
• Company is based in the USA
• They do analytics
• You cannot register “anonymously”

It’s not the worst VPN you could choose but there is better options.

If you don’t feel confortable with CLI tools their is graphical front-ends for yt-dlp such as Open Video Downloader or stacher but using yt-dlp is always better

https://privacytests.org/android

I think brave provide a slightly better experience overall, and privacy is a bit stronger too. Cromite might be better in some areas but DDG has better tracking protection against analytics from companies such as Adobe, Faceboo, Google, etc… by default.

DDG mobile browser had a contreverasy with allowing Microsoft tracking (DDG search engine is using MS Bing’s back-end) but in other hands brave is also quite contreversial with affiliate link injections, optionnal “private ads” with Web3 advertisement. Cromite seems cleaner but is a community run project and there is no company backing it.

Honestly I haven’t used it in years but it’s definitely not the worst option you can choose on Android.

Are you using Obtanium ? RSS Feed ? Or the app notify you and you manually download and install the update ?

So currently this is my recommendation for web browsers for Android.

Chromium based (best for security on Android)

• brave, disable cryptocrap, telemetry sponsor background and you’re pretty much good to go.
• cromite, an active fork of bromite which is basically an upgrade of ungoogled chromium
• Vanadium, if you are using GrapheneOS

Firefox based browser (none support per-site isolation as of today)

• IronFox, a active fork of Mull, basically the most harden FF flavor on Android
• Fennec, basically a fully libre FF flavor

Yes this is more correct. They wanted to provide to their user an alternative store that meets their security criteria so GOS users can download and install other apps safely.

The issue is that any firefox-based browser on Android lack of per-site isolation unlike chromium browser. It’s a security issue that Mozilla doesn’t seem interested in fixing. And it does impact every fork such as IronFox (previously Mull)

I am mainly using Firefox engine on all my computers but on Android I am using either Vanadium when on GrapheneOS and a tweaked brave when not.

For me personnaly it has nothing to do with supporting Google’s monopoly on web tech or not. It’s not about telemetry either, it is a security concern.

I t has imporved a lot lately you should :)

Do you know about Radicle ? It’s not federated but distributed and darknet based

There is also Radicle that is building a darkgit with p2p distributed design

Radicle seems to be the most resilient darkgit ! Self-hosted gitlab, gitea or codeberg is already better than GitHub

I’m pretty sure Anna’s Archive is backing up Sci-Hub, isn’t it ?

MateSFX

Riseup VPN is not a commercial VPN and works in a different way that most VPN, basically it allow you to root traffic through their foundation’s servers. You have no guarantee to have great speed at any time or based on your current geolocation. Remember that a VPN does not bring privacy or anonymity but yes for a free VPN it’s better than the majority of options.

Another usecase for Bitcoin and Monero ! Pirate needs to be sovereign from state money !