Than you guys need to try Rethink it’s ad blocker on steroids. You can use rethink with a actual VPN, tor Block direct connection with IP address And many more

Yep pretty lightweight and simple with no extra bloat

Go for it. It’s really good in terms of privacy

Yeah thats the reason.

I had no issue with signal (except phone number verification) but according to my family members signal uses a lot of ram and battery. Non of them have Google play services. XMPP doesn’t use that much resources and it’s simple, no unnecessary bloat.

XMPP. It replaced WhatsApp in my family that signal failed to do.

Saddest truth

Who you contact, when, how, from where is bing collected

Meta services is a dependency for fb messanger. But can be uninstalled with adb or canta

Fdroid official app is still outdae to me. Repo doesn’t automatically update itself and so on. I shifted to Droid-ify. Try that

Or just use droid-ify

So true

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Maybe lets see what happens

I was saying local backup

If this feature rolls out but you can’t pay for it. You can always use Molly (fork of signal). If you can support the project than do it. But if you can’t than don’t force your self

I would trust fdroid more than 50 individual developers

From when vanadium has ad block support?

They are the trackers