The ones that you refer to is for them to make money. Ok so why is that bad? Do you pay to use their browser? No. Are they funded by Google like Mozilla is? No. Does this tactic interfere with your browsing since you can disable these shit? No.

I’m not defending Brave at all but one should be criticizing objectively.

Ladybird is at least 2 years out from any production version. And they still have funding I think.

So comparing all browser I believe they least shit is Brave. Librewolf is fine too and in terms of speed it’s not that far behind and in real life no one will give a shit or even notice. It all comes down to usability in the browsing experience.

If you are referring to the crypto side of things you can easily disable them. I don’t see any spyware TBH.

I used both Cromite and Brave. Ended up using Brave (disabling all the crypto things) since it offers better handling in ad blocks and anti fingerprint.

Don’t know about iOS but yeah for Android it’s shit. They say they’re working on it.

Check out cosmos cloud too…

SimpleX chat.

Me too.

Maybe this? https://nuclear.js.org/

They also have some trackers I think. Try SearxNG.

Get a Pixel, install GrapheneOS and you’re done.

Why is that?

FeedMe for Android.

FeedMe for Android.

Oh yeah I missed the "just for fun’ bit…

Why don’t you use regular chat apps that have voice video capabilities?

Unfortunately I don’t remember about the retention setting.

I would avoid Pidgin since I’m not so sure they implement fully omemo encryption. Try Gajim.

Ah good to know about Conduit!

Well that’s how the protocol works saving data on every participating server.

Simplex chat might be another alternative but is on early development as far as groups and desktop client.

Username checks out!

Many years ago I used XMPP with Prosody and it was ok.

• You can setup some retention time for attachments and history depending on the space you have.
• There are clients for multiple platforms but not very much advanced vs competition.
• Security is good with omemo protocol. In so e clients you have to turn it on since it’s not by default.
• Audio video calls on one to one is good as long as you setup stun coturn server. Android to iOS calls still in progress.
• Check out Snikket for an all in one solution.

You might want to also consider Matrix (dendrite option ?) for your needs.

Or even better flash LineageOS on it!