Session does not have much things in common with Signal. They removed good things and nowadays it is not good headlining when saying ‘fork’.

They changed some fundamentale that werde used for and in Mull so I do not recommend it yet

NewPipe needs VPN or Tor for privacy which usually gets blocked

Oh yes. They don’t know the page… They do know what and what IP.

As /e/ and iodé depend on Lineage, there would be no difference. Only Graphene (Pixel-only) and Calyx (critical) are directly based on AOSP and could thus make a difference

Lineage covers many devices but is not very privacy friendly. It does not include Google integration by default. The ßain advantage is longer software support.

Graphene is most secure and privacy friendly OS and comes with support for sandboxed GApps (optional). Unfortunately it is only made for Google Pixel devices so I’m out.

Depending on your reasons and device you could also check alternatives like /e/.

Them using Discord for cooperation and organization is a bad start. I’m not convinced

Messages are not end to end encrypted and can thus be read from service provider.

Additionally Google is integrated into website.

There is no reason for considering Calyx at all. Graphene and Divest are better in terms of security and privacy.

If one want’s easy and convenient privacy, /e/ might be a valide option. No need for Calyx, Lineage or Iode

eMail is affected as well. There is no alternative. And mails are not private if not all participants use end to end encryption

A switch to what? To nothing?

To clarify: eMail, web chats, gaming chats, Signal, Threema and so on are affected as well

As mentioned before, you don’t need a cookie banner. You could simply inform, that you don’t collect data other than necessary session data.

The default is Fairphone OS. It is Google Android but they don’t pay to license the name ‘Android’, so they have to use an alternative name.

You can install /e/OS (even preinstalled by Murena) or DivestOS. Any other option doesn’t make sense as Divest is best in terms of security and privacy among all available custom roms and /e/ is most convenient (good but not perfect privacy, bad security but with MicroG, relock and App Lounge as well as Murena Cloud)

And:

I was searching for any native(non-proxied) YouTube client for Android in kotlin.

Fairphone is an option. Can be relocked. It is not important, what Fairphone supports but if it is supported by custom ROM developers. Fairphone is supported by most. But please avoid using Calyx or iode. They are both outclassed by Divest.

At least for /e/OS I can assure that relocking is simple enough. As there is partnership between Fairphone and Murena (/e/ developers) OTA updates are safe for future. Unfortunately the Fairphone support is horrible and /e/ is always too far behind security patch level.

Graphene only supports Pixel

Does not have swipe except when using a Google library

You didn’t get the point. It’s about community relevance.

VPN is both, an interface on your device and a network connection (to a provider). Netguard only uses the first. So every request is going through Netguard but is not sent to a VPN provider, it leaves your device like it would if Netguard wasn’t active.

So no VPN provider can see your traffic.

While being sent through your local Netguard, the request is checked whether it should be blocked or not. This is done by its name. If the name is on a block list (real list or manually blocked) Netguard ensures that the request will end in nowhere otherwise it will go through.