I’m currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don’t have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device

So, even now, it could be doing something that isn’t able to be audited

I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I highly-valued the cohesion and simplicity of having a suite of tools provided by a single vendor and all on a single bill, despite how often this turns into a vendor-lock-in strategy

Proton was part of my attempt to de-Google, precisely because it offered email (with custom CNAMEs), calendar, and storage, and because they open-sourced their clients and tools

Despite the UX and feature set being quite bare, I was okay with justifying this with the added privacy (which was a nice-to-have but not a deal-breaker for me)

It seems like all the alternatives are either less open-source, have even fewer features, are even less cohesive (indeed, I’d have to select entirely separate solutions and give up all integrations) or seem to have even fewer resources for development and project sustainability

I’d moved from Bitwarden to Proton Pass only 6 months ago, so moving back wasn’t too much of a difficult choice (both services have great import/export and Bitwarden even offers self-hosting)