That’s cool, thanks!

Graphene gang

It provides pretty good translations, but it’s not particularly good for privacy. Obviously it’s better than Google, but their privacy policy isn’t great.

• Lingva is a private frontend for Google translate
• LibreTranslate is an independent, free, libre, open-source translation solution
• Translate You is an Android app that allows you to connect to various translation APIs, including Lingva and LibreTranslate
• Firefox Translate allows you to translate websites when using Firefox or LibreWolf

I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, but I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use Proton Drive if I need to share files with other people. I use self-hosted Immich to sync my photos from all of my devices.

Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for your precious photos and videos!

This is good advice.

Glad you found a good solution

I used to do that before, but work profiles on Android 14 kinda suck, so I am trying out Aliucord right now, so far I’m pretty happy with it

Just installed Aliucord, I’m pretty happy with it so far

Have you tried all of GrapheneOS’s first steps for maximizing app compatiblity?

They’re not from the EU

Signal isn’t from the EU either, so why would different rules apply to it than to Threema

Why would Signal stop accepting European phone numbers? It’s not like they want to leave the EU, they can just continue offering their services to EU users, but they can’t have servers or offices or any legal entities in the EU if they get banned. That’s not such a problem, you can access Signal over the internet from anywhere in the world, and if EU states start blocking Signal, you can still use Signal TLS proxies, good old VPNs or Tor. Edit: Signal is also banned in Iran, but they of course accept Iranian phone numbers, as they don’t impose the ban, the Iranian government does. You don’t really have to worry about this, I’m sure Signal will do everything in their power to continue to operate, even in jurisdictions in which it’s banned.

In terms of security, Vanadium is better than Mulch. Mulch uses some of the patches of Vanadium, but it lacks many security improvements that are present in Vanadium. My current setup is Vanadium for tasks where high security is very important, and Mull for just standard browsing.

I use Vanadium for high-security tasks, but Mull is my default browser for standard browsing. It has better privacy, because it has built-in anti-fingerprinting mechanisms and you can actually install proper adblockers like uBlock Origin. Also, I don’t want to support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines by using a Chromium-based browser, so I prefer Mull which is based on Gecko.

Shizuku uses adb to grant apps elevated privileges, which unnecessarily increases attack surface. For security reasons, I would not use it.

Have fun! Don’t hesitate to ask me via DM if you have a question or encounter any problems as I’d say I’m quite experienced with all the tools I listed.

A few of those are not shown on the picture, but this is my personal list of favorites:

• GrapheneOS

It’s just the best, most private and secure mobile OS.

• Signal

End-to-end encrypted messenger with great history and track record

• LibreWolf

A Firefox-based browser with out-of-the-box privacy improvements and pre-installed ad-blocker

• Mull

Firefox for Android with privacy improvements

• SearXNG

Self-hostable meta-search engine

• Whoogle

Proxy for Google search

• Piped

Private YouTube frontend

• LibreTube

Piped client for Android

• Notesnook

End-to-end encrypted notes app

• Aegis

Good 2FA app for Android

• Bitwarden

Secure, FOSS password manager

Edit:

• NextDNS

Private DNS service with customizable filters

• SimpleLogin

Email aliasing service allowing you to create a new email address for every service you want to sign up for

I meant Cloudflare DNS, I don’t understand why Firefox uses Cloudflare DNS when there are so many other great options like NextDNS. The reason why many people in the privacy community dislike Cloudflare or CDNs in general is because they are often hostile to VPN or TOR users, and they centralize the web.

Not using Cloudflare as a DNS resolver would be an even better solution.