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 Alby seems to be trying to make it complicated... It requires an extension to your browser, but vanadium doesn't do extensions, and I hate extensions anyways. I did the whole Firefox extension bonanza 15 years ago and I'm done with it... 
 Use mull from fdroid
Can do pwas and more secure and private firefix fork  
 oh, yeah, on mobile... i have no idea

it's a web app, anyway, the main alby hub interface, and it has a wallet built into it

i'm not sure how you connect other things to it, for like amethyst and stuff there needs to be some kind of wallet connection, i don't think i even have zaps enabled on my mobile device, but if i did probably i'd be using Wallet of Satoshi because it's simple... mutiny has a wallet built in but their ToS are kinda shady because of google and shit but i guess on graphene with obtanium or fdroid or whatever it's a moot point

i keep hearing about NWC and alby hub so i guess there is probably a way to connect it 
 I have a start9 server, so I could host alby myself and skip their fee. That's appealing. But what's not do appealing is, I lost my password to my server, so I need to redo it. 

Or I could use walletofsatoshi and just always have VPN on... That's probably the easiest 
 yeah, WoS is always the easiest on mobile, and USG can GFT since they are unequivocally hostile to americans these days 
 Have you used it? It's telling me to register an account with an email. Is this really necessary? Cuz I see a lightning QR code already 
 hm yes i think an email is required for alby in general 
 a cloud provider needs a way to message you and because of certain stupidities in nostr they can't rely on using nostr DMs 
 So annoying... Yet another single use throw away email to save 
 oh, wait a sec... to run the hub?

if running it on start9 requires an email it's probably to send you messages about the state of it 
 @Alby can you enlighten us - self hosted alby hub needs email? what for? 
 by default i get emails from my alby hub telling me that it needs upgrades and when that is finished to unlock it again 
 Gross. Email that I have to actually pay attention to. I hate email. 
 haha, yeah, i hardly get any emails these days either, and many of them i don't want either, and have to unsubcribe from them

but what other way are you gonna get alerts? SMS? lol 
 It used to require Alby Account to launch it, since few releases it doesn't anymore.
You can run the Hub without having Account at Alby.

You can receive e-mail notification when it's linked (check in Hub's "Connections" tab)