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Well, I did not mean in a backdoor way. If google has a backdoor for the three letters agencies, I don't expect they would reveal it even if the whole country of Argentine flipped itself over.

I meant in a public way. The play store can install apps remotely through a google account but I have no idea how far this goes.

Is google even able to do it? They are unable to push os updates directly in most cases, sinco those go through phone vendors. Idk if they already have the ability to remotely uninstall apps. Maybe through the appstore?

I use ESET and rate of false positives is very low for me (as long as you disable detect "potentially unwanted applications", it asks during installation).

Matrix is quite similar to (older) Discord and therefore a good (easy to switch to) alternative.

so we went full circle. From gender being synonym to biological sex. Then making a load of different definitions for gender. And now figuring out we never needed a different definition of gender.

Social media activism in a nutshell.

I think Tutanota (or just Tuta now?) does this, since search works correctly.

I think not using PGP helps Tuta a lot with this, since PGP is really outdated and does not play well with modern features.

XMPP is often neglected even though it’s the most secure, private, fast, and reliable framework for end-to-end encrypted messengers.

This. I studied on how e2ee works in XMPP when I was trying it a few years back. It is absolutely atrocious. I have seen half-assed school projects with better security than most XMPP clients. Largely caused by encryption being bolted on through an extensions of the standard as an afterthought and going throug several revisions. Its usually not even enabled by default.

Now you may find a good client implementation, I think conversations for android seemd decent, but with everyone using a different client and no way to ensure the other side uses a secure one, there is little point.

This post is the personification of why downvotes should be enabled.

Sure, but there are good reasons not to use XMPP if you need security.

As dark ark say, the official mullvad app allows split tunneling. I have split tunneling enabled for things where I am logged in with my real identity. No point hiding my IP from steam when they have my credit card number with my name.

I never tried calyx, but graphene is great for me. As to your two comments:

1. Graphene has network acess as a standard permission, so you can just deny network access by not giving permission
2. Yes, graphene intentionally does not ship with anything but barebones apps so you can install the ones you like. I like this approach a lot more than having bloatware I don't want pre-installed but it is a matter of preference