Also of note, some providers have data caps. I haven’t looked at all providers, merely Nymvpn as I was interested. Turns out they have a 2TB/month cap. Might not be an issue for some, but might be for others.

From what I understand Nymvpn uses 2-hop connection, aka your data goes through two of their servers before reaching its intended destination, versus 1-hop with most other VPNs. It’s more private, but you’ll sacrifice speed as a result of having to go through at least 2 servers. They even have a 5-hop mode, which I don’t know, probably would be slower than tor xD

Check the privacy policy: https://p2p.mirotalk.com/privacy

E2EE usually implies that your connection goes through the company’s server(s) before reaching your contact during communication. With Mirotalk, your connection is P2P. You connect directly to your contact. Your video stream never goes through the company’s server. And the connection is still encrypted of course.

So yes, your stream is encrypted. Honestly, if it wasn’t, no way they’d be in business as encryption is probably the bare minimum nowadays when it comes to any kind of communication.

Ubiquiti is business oriented, not consumer. It’d be very foolish for them to snoop on the traffic of their business customers.

Ubiquiti is also a traded company. Their stock would crater in lieu of such news.

As a consumer, besides reliability, privacy is another main reason to paying extra for enterprise gear.

Give MiroTalk a try. Can be self-hosted and just like Jitsi, no need to install anything, it’s all in-browser. Has all the features you’re asking for.

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk

If you want to test drive it:

https://p2p.mirotalk.com/

For the known top trackers, it’s to have more control over nefarious users such as duped accounts, banned users and potential law enforcement trying to sign up. Sure it’s not a bulletproof solution to deal with bad actors but it’s still an effective way. You gotta remember that these trackers are free (yet private). The admins/operators don’t get paid, so last thing they want to do is waste time dealing with such users.

At the end of the day you still have to trust them with your real IP, but it’s mostly to protect themselves afaik. I obviously can’t speak for every tracker out there.

You probably need to make a request to Izzy. From what I remember he has requirements, such as max app size, which makes me wonder if maybe the ProtonMail app just became too big for him to build and host.

Here are the requirements: https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/wikis/Inclusion Policy

It’s probably because Proton changed the repo. I was grabbing their release via Obtainium and noticed the version I had was way older than the version on the Play Store. Had to update my Obtainium entry for ProtonMail to the new repo: https://github.com/ProtonMail/android-mail

I was/am in the same boat, but I quickly gave up for the following reason: Why bust my ass trying to give my business? If Lowes blocks me then f*ck em I’ll take my business to Home Depot. It’s their loss.

Totally.

I guess the privacy advantage of a regular SIM is that as soon as you pop out the sim card out of your phone, towers can’t track you anymore.

With eSIMs on the other hand, I can never truly trust that an eSIM is de-activated? Feels like you actually just have a permanent sim card in your phone and your phone can just be tracked no matter the status of your eSIM. Or is this not technically possible?

Can’t really answer, but if the library was available to all your Plex users, Tidal probably has countermeasures for that or maybe would ban your account.

Seeing 10 different songs (assuming you had 10 users streaming at the same time) being pulled from their servers from a single account would definitely raise suspicions.

Maybe you can get away with it if you have a Family type account with Tidal.

If there are only 2-3 of you, maybe it’s worth a try though.

I can’t give you an answer, but what I can tell is that, unfortunately, being on iOS, you won’t have a lot of options when it comes to FOSS apps.

Apple charges developers $100/year to be able to publish on the app store, so that gives very little incentives for iOS developers to publish their app without any kind of monetization, whether via a subscription, ads, or mass data gathering.

I have a lot of respect for FOSS apps on iOS, because not only do devs offer an app FOSS, but they’re paying that $100/year out of their own pocket.