Raistlin

I would personally go with the pixel line, as they just have the google spyware, and not 3 other companies spyware installed on top of Google spyware. Also they generally have decent security updates, and get them faster than most other brands, and then you have the option to switch to grapheneOS should you want too. They are also fairly affordable especially if you are getting them second hand.

Yeah I use both

True, but it is insanely slow, and blacklisted by many websites.

Yeah that sounds quite nice, I’ll look into it.

Fair enough, and the window burn animation is definitely nice.

I would say there’s an argument to be made against duckduckgo with how they’re not open source, and the whole allowing Microsoft trackers deal, but it is definitely a better option than google or bing. I don’t understand why you’re mentioning their browser however, as there are definitely much better alternatives.

Honestly I’ve found it to be surprisingly stable, and the only time the system broke, it was my own fault.

I bet lizard man personally, he just feels slimy a reptilian.

Which often means shoving them into massively underfunded institutions, that are full of corruption and abuse, making it a less than ideal alternative.

I honestly think the trick for E2EE is to just collect so little, that even by complying, you can’t give them very much. That trick has worked really well for Signal in the past.