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Ah, thank you. It’s been a while since I had to work with Android.

Material Design is still modern? I thought Google had revised that again.

(Using only Apple devices, I wonder if I should make an Apple-like interface now…)

Mullvad and Perfect Privacy won’t need your bank details though.

TL;DR: the NATO is our enemy.

Some yes, some no. Zürich works quite well.

These days, things have greatly improved.

Websites will never change their URLs today.

wink wink nudge nudge say no more!

Made by Mozilla Corporation, an US company. Just saying.

My RSS reader (Newsblur) lets me do that too, to some extent.

• Stopped using reddit, went here instead.
• Intensified my Mastodon usage, winding down my Twitter activity.
• Started using my own mail server for more than just a few tests.
• Changed search engines a few times (I’ll probably stick with Kagi now).
• Reduced my subscriptions and cleaned up my RSS feeds.
• Stopped doomscrolling (I subscribed to a weekly paper newspaper instead).
• Started using Ulysses for writing. Works very well.

I never leave my VPN, so that’s the easier way anyway.

Touché.

Virtually every website out there today uses Javascript.

Most of those work without it.

Lemmy uses Javascript.

Lemmy is one of several ActivityPub-capable applications. You do not need to use Lemmy inside a web browser in order to participate here. In fact, you don’t even need to use a web browser.

The Web generally does not function without Javascript today.

I disagree. Some websites (with lazy developers) work less well without JavaScript. You’ll gain less annoyances (no JS = no pop-ups and no sophisticated anti-adblock techniques), more speed, less energy consumption, less potential security risks. You’ll lose… not really much. “Web applications” (usually worse, slower and less reliable than installed software), a couple of websites which are very focused on providing effects over contents - sounds like a fair deal to me, but again, YMMV.

Yes, there will never be absolute security. If it runs on a computer, it most likely has security flaws.

Are you advocating for some form of isolation? If so, what?

Kernel sandboxing. I mean, breaking out of browser “sandboxes” is a game these days.

Any site you browse to – including those not labeled as such – could well expose you to that vulnerability.

Which is why using the web without JavaScript is a security measurement which I strongly recommend to enable. Sure, many sites will be “less interactive” then, but I’m afraid that it is the only solution. For the usually: rather small number of websites which you absolutely need to use with JavaScript enabled (do you, really?), a separate browser inside a container (or VM) would be a good option. I admit that this is not the most comfortable setup, but I really prefer to be safe than sorry. YMMV, but you asked.

I don’t think that “fun” should be the only relevant aspect, especially not with network-facing applications managing personal data.

Compared to native platforms.

Yes, because browser sandboxes will NEVER be as secure as kernel sandboxes.

“PWAs” are still less efficient than native apps. There are many disadvantages - and one advantage (“it’s easy to make one”).

If there’s one thing that everyone could have learned from the Snowden papers, that one thing is that you aren’t “paranoid”.