You think that Proton and Brave is on the same level of privacy as Google, Apple, and Microsoft?

Still better than Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, Microsoft Edge, and Google Chome.

They missed to mention Jitsi Meet, posteo.de, Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP (for an example Snikket). But other than that, really good list! 😃

And yes, you can use others servers for Nextcloud, Piped, and XMPP/Snikket. No need for self-hosting your own.

You were not rude to me. You asked a simple question, that’s it :) I’m autistic too.

Firstly. People don’t like Piped or Invidious because they often gets broken due to Google’s work to try shut them down completely.

Invidious is basically all broken already because of this. And it can be hard to find a good Piped instance that works.

I have Piped installed on my server and it happens that I get “login to prove you’re not a bot” or what the error message is.

And secondly. People tend to be very mean online and I don’t trust any people until they have proven they are indeed nice and not mean in any way (like judging or trolling).

Lastly. I am in a very bad mood which boosting the second reason.

Use a front-end like Piped or Invidious and be happy.

Negative comments and dislikes incoming in 3, 2, 1…

Yes, but iOS is even more closed than Android which makes all iPhones a small prison for open-minded and privacy oriented people.

Google is Big Tech, logs everything. Apple is Big Tech too, but only logs tiny less than Google. All Big Tech is a big no-no if you’re privacy oriented. This applies to all services that uses Big Tech, too.

Here’s my response to the -2 votes or whatever it is called. I bet it’s because of the last sentence. If you surf a website with a browser with uBlock Origin and blocks Big Tech, that’s good. But a lot of people visits websites and allows everything, feeding Big Tech with even more data than they already have. That was why I wrote it is a big no-no even services that uses Big Tech. Signal included.