Signal is easy to on board folks to. Not a huge fan of the phone number requirement, but it’s worth the trade off for me. I used Session for a while, but media sharing was buggy. I’ve heard good things about Simplex, but the inability to have a desktop client was deal breaker for me.

Anti-Brave?

Even with e2ee, I wouldn’t trust it since they use a closed-source, proprietary encryption protocol.

I’ve used it. I like how it can show trends in test results too.

I love how the only rational person on the thread gets down voted.

I just use an audio recorder while the call is on speaker phone.

Molly (fork of Signal) allows you to use multiple phones https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

I used it for a couple years, but came back to signal because I had so many issues with media sharing.

FYI, the Pro has been discontinued: https://pine64.org/2025/08/14/august_2025_short_update/

So, does that mean it works?

I’ve never had an issue loading my tickets in the browser.

You have to adjust your number, since this happened 5 year ago 😅

Can you explain why you chose the hand and eye? A hand print is a very identifiable trait, so it seems counter to the idea of privacy.

Freetube connecting to local invidous node.

I use Firefox Focus/Klar as my default and if I want anything to persist, I’ll open it in Brave or Chromium.

I’ve used MyPhoneExplorer

You can run it as a docker, pretty easily.

Run this to generate your visitor_data and po_token

docker run quay.io/invidious/youtube-trusted-session-generator

Clone the repo in link below (step 2) and paste those values into your docker_compose.yml file in the appropriate fields. Also, generate a nice long string for the hmac_key

https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production

This does give you an “identity” with YouTube, but you can generate new tokens as often as you want, replace them in your yml, and restart the container.

Once the container is running, update FreeTube settings abs change the “current invidious instanc” to http://localhost:3000/

Let me know if you get stuck.

I’ve use Plik before with success.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#file-transfer---single-click--drag-n-drop-upload

Why proxy a brave search request? Isn’t brave search already private?