Man, I remember watching this guy about ten years ago. Great channel!

Tox is interesting, though potentially less secure than Briar as they rolled their own encryption and have not been audited (afaik).

The beginning‽ They’ve been up to shit like this for years!

Hey, it’s not like I’m surprised. I suggested that everyone leave for Signal as soon as Facebook bought the damn thing. The trouble was that nobody but my immediate family actually listened or cared.

Bold of you to assume I get spam in my emails or SMS

My family already moved to Signal about a year ago, and I have an online friend who I talk to over Tox; but my friends from high school pretty much only use WhatsApp, Instagram, ans TikTok, and they have never been open to my suggestions of switching to Signal and the Fediverse.

Same

My family moved as soon as I asked last year; but my old friend group is rather stubborn.

Yes, but I didn’t sign up to receive ads in WhatsApp, nor did I agree when creating either account.

Most people don’t use it as a derogatory term anymore.

Try this: https://albertlauncher.github.io/

It’s better.

Librewolf isn’t available on Android.

On the desktop, it’s decent. It’s also what I recommend to most people asking me for advice. However, on that front, it’s beaten by Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser.

I mean, that would work, and it would be a fun site to visit; but visually impaired users and non-English speakers would have difficulty without alt text, and at that point you’d may as well just write a regular page. However, as I said, it would be fun.

I know, and I’m still researching the best way to mitigate this. So far, I’ve come away with the impression that Tor Browser and Brave do the best jobs of minimising fingerprinting, otherwise I would have just disabled JS in Vanadium and called it a day.

As it happens, Brave started crashing for no apparent reason shortly after I posted this, so I’m back on Tor Browser. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, I’m aware of the irony.

I flip back and forth between Brave and Tor Browser, depending on which one appears less fingerprintable; and I’ve disabled all of the analytics.

I generally do the same. In fact, on desktop, uBO is set to hard mode. Unfortunately, I do need to access these sites from time to time.

HTML and CSS can do quite a lot, and you can use PHP or cgi-bin for some scripting.

Of course, it’s not a perfect alternative. JavaScript is sometimes the only option; but a website like the one I was trying to use could easily have just been a static site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/