Russia is reportedly planning to block WhatsApp as well.

I switched off after having found that its privacy settings prevent extensions like Dark Mode from reading your dark mode status in the OS. There’s a workaround but I might as well use something else.

That’s overkill. Shaun’s video on Harry Potter is less than two hours long and tells you all you need to know.

We know WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol for encryption, but it also collects a lot of metadata. Arguably still better than Telegram that collects everything. Its secret chats may be e2ee but nobody uses them even for discussing sensitive matters, and they don’t work on the Desktop.

Removed

Depends on whether piracy is less of an ethical issue than supporting a sexist transphobe.

The corporate overlords are inherently right-wing, which is why they fund, build, and embrace those platforms. There’s no revolt in joining them.

As far as I know, Startpage uses Bing, not Google now. The same is true for Ecosia.

Its Russian founder recently praised Musk in an interview for Tucker Carlson.

There is guilded.gg as well but I don’t know if it’s better for privacy.