IVPN and Mullvad are probably the best VPNs if you simply want to transfer full view of all your internet activity from your ISP to one of these 2 companies. If you want to keep your internet movements private from everyone, use Tor browser. Its slower and doesn't do udp, but it is much closer to real privacy than the commercial VPNs. Of course, if you are a high priority target of a large nation state, then Tor might not be enough for you, but for most people it works well for those things you want private. If you just want to watch movies, torrent and stuff like that, regular VPNs are the way to go.
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The solution is that companies, groups, and individuals simply run their own instances, just like Lemmy. These bills will actually do us good and get us to drop these massive, centralized, communication companies that have all our data and spy on us anyway. We spend all our time asking if this or that company spies on its users or not. Run your own server, there are plenty of high quality open source projects out there to choose from and it's really not that hard. Run a server for friends and family. People wanna b lazy and then whine.....
Unfortunately Switzerland has no power. They were bullied out of the private banking they were famous for and they will get bullied whenever they have info that some other western state wants. Anyway, the privacy benefits they offer are mostly cosmetic. No ruler wants privacy. When we understand that, then we can stop looking for things that don't exist and start creating solutions.
Signal has much work to do to be a real "privacy" app. Get rid of phone numbers, get rid of metadata, stop contact mining. They say they don't mine contacts but it is easy for them to do if they wanted to, so I assume they do.
Tor is great but has speed issues and no udp, so no voip. A lot of room for improvement there also. We should welcome all that try to improve on what we have.
Signal is wannabe private because of phone number, metadata and contacts mining (even though they say they don't, they can). Simplex looks promising and the guy is headed in the right direction. As soon as he makes it that the servers cannot correlate which IP is talking to which IP, I will say they are a really good solution. Telling people to use Tor with your app for privacy is not a solution.
Besides that, it is a very well made app that has a nice UI and works very well. Also many good features.
Privacy is diametrically opposed to the ability to control the people you rule over, so no state is privacy friendly. There are only degrees of extremism. The poorer countries are more privacy friendly in the world because they lack the resources to spy on everything. If they could they would spy more.
I'm gonna assume you're being funny
Mega offers e2ee and good prices. Collaboration does not update correctly on mobile (android and ios). Besides that, works well.
Koofr is also very good with a full e2ee option for the paranoid. You can also pay with Monero which is important. Any service that is selling privacy but does not offer a private method of payment is half-assed. Mega only takes Btc and calls all other crypto "shitcoins." Draw your own conclusions.
Proton Drive is well on the way but missing a lot of features and the smoothness of other cloud providers. I think they need 6-12 months to really be up to snuff.
Good security-wise, maybe. But who protects you from Apple? They have access to everything they so conveniently sync for you for free. That is neither secure nor private. The same goes for Google. People don't understand how much of your stuff they have access to.
LibreWolf is about as secure as a browser can get out of the box. Check out the stats here.