NymVPN is too new for me to feel comfortable using personally. Also it seems that they worked with Brave which I’m certainly not a fan of.
I wouldn’t recommend Jottacloud as their privacy policy seems iffy and they don’t have e2ee.
Filen’s privacy policy seems better, although they do say they do analytics. They do have e2ee though. Definitely much closer to Tuta than Jottacloud.
I like IVPN because it feels like a pretty drop-in replacement for Mullvad. It’s also available on Accrescent which is great for anyone using GrapheneOS.
As for AirVPN, I thought you needed an email to sign up but after checking their sign up page, it seems you can enter whatever string you want for your email.
They also support port forwarding unlike IVPN so if that’s super important to you maybe AirVPN is the way to go.
It also seems AirVPN is slightly cheaper year by year and significantly cheaper if you buy 3 years at a time.
AirVPN has never had an independent security audit though, so if that concerns you IVPN is the way to go.
Otherwise, it seems like AirVPN is a real contender if you’re worried about price and/or port forwarding. Maybe I’ll give both of them a try before I commit to one (still waiting for my Mullvad days to run out).
Mail - Tuta Mail
VPN - IVPN or AirVPN (Never been independently audited but cheaper and has port forwarding)
Drive - Selfhost Nextcloud or Tuta Drive
Calendar - Selfhost Nextcloud or Tuta Calendar
Docs/Sheets - Selfhost Nextcloud or LibreOffice (offline)
Pass - Bitwarden or KeePassXC (offline)
Authenticator - 2FA or Aegis (both are offline but that’s a good thing with 2FA)
Meet - Jitsi
Lumo - Local AI or Kagi Assistant (paid, comes with privacy-focused search engine) or Duck.ai (free)
Wallet - Cake Wallet
Content filtering can be done by the DNS and/or VPN. If you need the browser to do it for you instead, Titanium lets you install extensions that can do that (although the security is worse than Vanadium, it’s better than Brave).
You can’t have good privacy without good security.
I know, I mentioned this in the original message. They said they didn’t want to use Vanadium because of the inability block ads. I was saying that if they insist that they don’t want to use Vanadium, Titanium is the next best option.
Basically Vanadium > Titanium > Brave Origin.
Chromium-based browsers have better sandboxing than Firefox based ones on Android.
Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted, heres GrapheneOS talking about exactly this: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/111474646701309564
Personally I don’t mind the empty spaces if it means better security, but if it’s that important to you Titanium has extension support.
If you’re using Graphene, Vanadium is the way to go instead of Brave Origin. The security is significantly better as it’s made for the OS (and you know how Graphene is with security). Also, no more need to use Brave! If you’re ever using a different Android OS, there’s Titanium, based on Vanadium.
Never heard of Titanium, thanks!
I mean you don’t need to import anything, that’s just if you want to easily transfer your Youtube subscriptions.
What customization and preferences are you talking about? If you mean your subscriptions, you can log into your account and transfer your subscriptions under Youtube in the “Sources” tab.
Grayjay Desktop is my preferred frontend and has more platforms than just Youtube. It also has a mobile app with sync.
Graphene is the best by a long shot, security wise and degoogling wise. In fact, you can use GrapheneOS with absolutely zero Google services running on your phone. /e/OS uses MicroG which while better than your usual Android phone, still runs with privileged access to your device. This is in contrast to GrapheneOS’ optional sandboxed Google services implementation which gives Google the same privileges any other app on your phone would have.
One of two Mullvad CEOs personally donated 5,000,000 SEK (~500K USD) to the Swedish Örebro party, who support ethnic cleansing. “Sweden is for the Swedes”.
Mullvad’s response was just fence-sitting on the issue.
By paying for Mullvad, you are funding the man who donated to the far-right Örebro party, and likely will again.