BrilliantBadger

Yeah its like those sports headlines where they try vibe you up for some trash talk

“Player A had a perfectly blunt statement about Player B”

Only to read & find out they said Player B was great, such drama lol

All just rage bait everywhere, AI or human that’s the clicks plan

I use both same products, just manually copy to phone periodic as my vault is pretty static

Made the move from bitwarden not that long ago, actually a bit before their price increase (just timing not because of it). Nothing bad about BW to say, it worked great for me for years.

My motivation was wanting my password manager fully offline.

Keepass are fantastic programs, and actually now more pleased with my move after seeing some negative moves from BW I needn’t be concerned with

+1 for Keepass!

The e/os Advanced Privacy feature is very nice, great way to see which apps have tracker whilst blocking them. Same as running DNS filters but built in experience, easy to view

In itself LOS is fantastic but needs be combined with something like reThinkDNS or another DNS filtering option

Rethink on LOS is fantastic, in particular if you can do the whitelist method - block everything by default, and permit only that which you approve. Takes some time & effort but great control is the reward

I prefer layers, example LOS w/rethink DNS all going thru Control D or NextDNS with Hagezi lists enabled

Overkill? Perhaps , but I love the reporting , helps in learning what’s going on, and apps/sites to be avoided

Posteo has been fantastic for me, but no bring your own domain as some have mentioned a deal breaker if that’s your bag

Super cheap, unsure on any political stances but they embrace being green / sustainable so that’s usually a give away :)

Use it with betterbird and Thunderbird android just works great

Windscribe has Anonymous Account (Hashed Login)

Nice. Similar, I got the N100 off the bay to give a try. VoLTE now works good in USA with Tello /Tmobile, at least in my area, that was certainly a show stopper for some time, huge win!

Got OpenVPN working, uWolf runnng my NextDNS so can filter/watch the logs, MMS has some issues (only works with wifi disabled, but I think they have a fix coming), no RCS as you mention.

As you say, not quite there, but good progress overall. Hope for continued progress, and love to see the many more posts on it than ever before!

Using a privacy focused Android phone project for now, but long term the real answer is Linux or some other new project to tear away completely from Bigtechs dependency & stranglehold. Thanks for your adding development to the cause!