Not exactly setting the good example.

Be excellent, but that does not mean you need to spend your attention to them. Let that kind of advertising system quietly die.

2017 for me if we go by having processed that year…,

Check out AlternativeTo

I’ve been thinking of different browsers as well, but not sure which. Probably LibreWolf.

Def not Chrome or Safari though.

Link for those not using TikTok

(at the end it features that vid)

You could check out Wire, Session, and Threema etc.

Signal and Simplex are also pretty good.