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Yes, from the toot, all of this data is visible on a Google Takeout export.

I use Tailscale's MagicDNS. Definitely a huge convenience as I run a few services that I use on the web browser, so having a domain name instead of the IP address is a win.

I don't understand this part. ProtonMail does not offer a burner address service. Are you referring to the ability to create aliases on a ProtonMail account? If you are, that's possible with most other hosts too.

A proper burner address service would be SimpleLogin or Anonaddy.

http://ai./ and https://ai./ does not work either. Is that an issue with my DNS resolver?

I thought it was just me where Bitwarden didn't work on the private window.

I would have moved from 1Password to Bitwarden as well, but I stayed on the 1Password ship for its native app. May reconsider now, as they are moving to electron.

On the other hand, my company recommends using their standalone license, which does not exist anymore. Online password managers is a no-no at this place. Perhaps self-hosted 1Password will be interesting when it arrives.

The standalone license was killed off a while ago, I guess a month ago.

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969624

It is? The last I remember, editing a field on 1Password X opens 1Password website instead, where the changes can be made.

Your understanding is correct. 1Password requires a key in addition to the master password. And finally, 1Password can have 2FA for itself, which is stored on my Authy. These are reasons why I am comfortable storing my 2FA codes on it.

Bitwarden has 2FA support too, but does not have the unique key feature that 1Password has.

Same path. It'll be very hard to move away from 1Password. App experience, sync, security features like key in addition to master password, family organizer-based recovery of an account, these are a few things that stand out.

This is an incorrect take. It's true that Signal's server code had not been updated for many months, but that doesn't have an effect on security as messages are end-to-end encrypted locally on the clients/apps. The client/app code had been consistently updated during this period.

Signal responded to the server code being outdated as well: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...

I relate to this a lot. reddit.com struggles to load on my MacBook Air 2015, or a Windows with 9th gen i5 with 8GB RAM.

I have an extension on my Firefox to always load the old reddit. There is an account-specific setting to always load old reddit, but there are times when I browse without an account.

In the same boat. Happy paying ProtonMail customer at the moment but doesn't serve much value as none of my contacts are ProtonMail users. I see email as an insecure communication medium anyway, so moving to iCloud+ seems like a good idea. Also a Migadu user, but all domains on their micro plan (limit of 5) are used up at the moment.

I was a paying Tutanota customer for two full years, but ended up cancelling recently. Reasons being lack of IMAP (ProtonMail does), slow development, [missing features](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/search?q=missing&restrict_...) yet their focus is on building quantum cryptography defense, and most importantly, their recent change in domain limit. It used to be unlimited on the 12 EUR plan, but without any announcement to the end-user, they limited that to 1. They [fixed that later](https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/lwr2ag/important_...) but I no longer trust their business practices.

You can have an independent login account but that comes at an additional cost of 12 EUR. That's on the top of the Business plan's cost of 12 EUR + 12 EUR.

Speaking for calendar, I basically signed up for a new Google account with that custom domain email address and use calendar on it. Syncs neat to my Android.

The ephemeral functionality is different from end-to-end encrypted functionality. The former is part of the end-to-end encrypted chats, and can be modified as needed. It's basically a timer that controls when your messages disappear.

>Telegram does an excellent job at ephemerality from a practical standpoint. Without being able to audit their server though, we have no clue if 'disappeared' chats and messages are actually scrubbed from their server.

Aren't disappearing messages a feature of secret chats? If my understanding is correct here, these messages are not backed up to the cloud. Rather they are stored within your device. That's precisely why e2ee synced chats are not available.

This is incorrect. WhatsApp is E2EE as well. It does not backup the keys to their cloud. Rather, you seem to be referring to the fact that they offer cloud backup on Google Drive, in which case the chats are stored in plain text.

Same. I have been using DuckDuckGo for over 4 years now. There is not much reason to go back to Google. DuckDuckGo ticks all my requirements:

- General search.

- Prefix search with "\ " to jump to the first result. (often use it for those links that I am certain of ranking first)

- Bangs for site-specific searches. Use it for online shopping.

- Quick currency, temperature conversions, math.

On the mobile side of things, the tracker blocker functionality with one-click-erase functionality are neat.

There's nothing really to not like about DuckDuckGo. If desired results are not available, Google search is one step away. Just prefix with "!g"

I briefly considered Ecosia but the lack of first-result jumper and bangs were a problem for me.

Brave Search is something I want to try but the large amount of space between search results is slightly bothering.

There seem to be two different features:

1. Redirection to Google.

2. Piping Google's results back to Brave Search's UI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27594754

The original commenter was asking about the latter.

I am not able to locate this setting. I am using Brave Search on Firefox. Is that available only on Brave Search on Brave browser?

I was on the free tier but hit 300k requests in roughly 25 days. My primary smartphone, laptop, and parents' smartphones. Upgraded to NextDNS, happy customer for an year but jumped ship to pihole. Have two pihole devices on the Tailscale network. NextDNS was great. Checks all of my requirements. Just wanted to support open source software. I donate to pihole often instead.

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27136002

It is for this reason I am moving away from ProtonMail to Migadu. Literally any IMAP-offering email service would do. All that we need is a custom domain.

I sent Mark a message yesterday on Signal. It was "delivered" but not "read", obviously. Today, I don't see that contact as a Signal user anymore. I see a "Invite to Signal" button on that conversation view. Guess he deleted the account?

>Can also attach multiple 2FA tokens to one account

This is new to me. Most websites that I have seen offer only one 2FA token, but it could be scanned on any number of TOTP apps.

May I ask which registrar it is? The ones I know only offer email forwarding for free, not a full-fledged email account.