For the most part it’s a business for them, and that’s what matters, they target Mac users because they are more likely to pay. If you need speed and customization there is neovim and Helix (Rust based). From users to users, no business interests here. Or VSCode just works for almost everyone.

Monero node, i2p instance.

I don’t. There are great storage solutions you can use: Wasabi s3 via rclone. Hetzer storage boxes. OVH and any cheap S3 storage via rclone.

Go to MetaGer

Can I use it from EU?

There are ways to do it on a rooted phone, many did. Use a different account for it.

Can we get via Obtanium?

I guess people just prefer and are more active on Discord

Luke + MO

DDG uses bing and they filter results based on their biased opinion. Just give me results let me care about the rest! Brave has a limited index, plus not a huge fan of their crypto scam. StartPage gets results from Google and seems better than the above two. But Google itself filters results so not great. tbh, to get unfiltered great results try Yandex, they do have good index and seem no or less filtering. It would be great if SearX would provide a wrapper around Yandex, but AFAIK Yandex blocks bots and non-human interactions and it is hard to add SearX support. Kagi - I don’t want an extra subscription.

For now, I think SearX/Whooper instances are good enough

Telegram

Private chats on Telegram seems to the middle ground

They have that the named list, isn’t? They just could go through that if that’s what they really care about

Try FileRun

Vendetta on mobile Webcord on PC

Any website you connect have access to your public IP for each request, hence location recommendations

IVPN

Adguard is good, very good. Their rules are default included on uBO, they know their jobs well so getting very good product. As an alternative you can consider NextDNS

Cash is bad, but better than CBDC

They offer -10% on Monero!