Have a look at Deltachat

Its starting to make headway: FOSS, Decentralised and anyone who is tech inclined can setup their own Relay.

If the company is owned by “Kape” its ikely a Israeli honeypot:

https://medium.com/illumination/vpns-the-privacy-trap-4aef67f39634

Kape’s portfolio includes ExpressVPN, acquired in 2021 for $936 million; CyberGhost, purchased in 2017; Private Internet Access, bought in 2019 for $127 million; and ZenMate.

Together, these services account for three of the six most popular VPN products globally, serving approximately 7.4 million paying subscribers.

Kape also owns VPNMentor and Wizcase, review platforms that rank VPN services — including Kape’s own products — for consumers seeking expert guidance.

host your own:

https://www.ollama.com/

I cant say about US providers, but Ubuntu touch isnt ran by Canonical - its a group of volunteer devs called UBports:

https://ubports.com/

Fairphone with e/ - you can also flash ubuntu touch onto the fairphone 4 & 5 if you wish

https://localsend.org/

Only dislike I have with Debian is upgrading it was always a headache, but I think rolling release just suits me more.

Its a great distro

Polarnight:

songs of syx, couldnt stop playing that, just started dredge aswell

https://psono.com/

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/passwords/?h=psono#psono

Gait Recognition ™️

https://element.io/en?

Its still an option with CachyOS

https://grayjay.app/

Works fine through Steam

systemDeez nuts