I use MullvadVPN, GrapheneOS and Linux but I also search for any more apps not like OSes. What’a your favorites?

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    9 hours ago

    I use open-source applications that don’t require internet access for tasks that can be done perfectly offline, which is great not just for privacy but for many other reasons as well.

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    Matrix messaging apps. It’s nice to have modern messaging features, end-to-end encrypted, with no single point of failure, no Google involvement, and no phone numbers. I expect to start recommending it widely when the 2.0 features land in the popular clients.

    WireGuard VPN. It’s fast, even on low-power devices.

    Self-hosted Mumble. Excellent low-latency voice quality for chatting or gaming with friends.

    Radicale, DAVx⁵, and Thunderbird, for calendar and contact sync between mobile and desktop, without handing the data over to Google or anyone else.

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    Lots.

    However I want to give FreeTube some love. Out of all the YT frontends, FreeTube has never failed me and always been a treat to use. I’ve used it on both Linux and Windows, and the experience is always reliable.

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 days ago

      I’m the same here as I too use the Fediverse and LibreWolf, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the former: by the very nature of how the Fediverse works, it is honestly pretty damn terrible for the purposes of privacy. Unless I’m missing something, which mind you is certainly a possibility.

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        I think the fediverse does have a privacy problem, however as long as your account can’t be linked to you (malicious instance, your email being breached) it doesn’t matter all that much (at least for my threat level) because the info is confined to the fediverse, where little can be done with it, especially if you swap instances/accounts commonly. Yes, one could create a profile on you based on what you upvote/downvote, but they can’t for example use that to serve targeted ads, because the fediverse doesn’t have a ad network and when visiting other sites they can’t associate your profile with you (assuming you don’t reuse your username), unless I am forgetting something.

        tldr: The fediverse isn’t private, but the data is practically useless

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        13 days ago

        Ones like Lemmy fit in fine to my threat model. They enable me to use privacy tools up-to-and-including Tor routing, without a phone number or other personally identifying info (you can’t do those with many other social media platforms). I can use the Fediverse pseudonymously, and if I ever want to, anonymously.

        I’m not hiding this conversation from you, but I am hiding my identity from companies.

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 days ago

          Ah yea reddit seems to hate TOR.

          Not to mention that most subreddits have a soft ban on new accounts. Extremely infuriating.

          Lemmy seems so welcoming to TOR users, I mean I had to fill out an “application” but I just used a temp email. Lovely place, hidden behind anonymity, well kind of… as long as the NSA doesnt suddenly spend the entire US budget hunting me, I’d be anonymous. They got bigger fishes to catch.

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        13 days ago

        obviously public fora content is not meant to be private but using a fedi instance is privacy focused solution vis-a-vis redidt who tracks ever fucking click and finger prints your browsers while permittitng rando creeps like sundar and faceberg to do the same.

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          13 days ago

          Privacy-focused isn’t a term I’d choose, but it certainly allows privacy-concerned people to use it, and like you said, avoiding the capitalist surveillance crap that for-profit companies are pulling.

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    13 days ago

    Openwrt on my flint 2 With adgaurd/pihole I know its not technically an app, but lots of people forget there routers exist and are a very big security hole

    You would not believe what my samsung tv pings

    Tiktok (somehow came preinstalled)

    Hulu(we dont have a hulu account)

    Tubi(we dont use tubi)

    Amazon(it seems to be for samsung tv plus)

    I ended up blocking everything except amazon, samsung tv, and netflix on the dns level

    Its also really good for stopping non power users (aka family member’s) from getting malware/phished

    –edit fixed formatting

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    • MullvadVPN, and a free and privacy respecting OS is another good idea.
    • So is using privacy respecting apps: LibreOffice instead of MS Office, Codium instead of VSCode. And so on, with many FLOSS alternatives to the usual proprietary ones.
    • Services also matter, imho: I’m using ProtonMail for my email (Tuta would be another clever choice, imho, and there are probably others). I’ve very recently switched from iCloud to filen.io for my cloud storage needs.
    • Using one’s phone as little as possible. I’ve almost nothing on mine, I mean only stuff I’m required to have (banking and IDs, stuff like that), no email, no social, not even music or games (the game I enjoy the most play I also I enjoy it the most when I play it offline: chess ;))

    And then… I also started using analog tools much more in the last two years. This helps a lot maintaining one’s privacy. Amazon can’t track my reading habits when I read a printed book (even less if I do not buy it from them), Goofle cant’" track my writings when I use pen and paper instead of their apps, Apple (or Google or Microsoft) can’t track my paper agenda or my paper notebook. And the NSA or whomever is playing that role in my country can’t ask any corporation to install backdoors in my IRL encounters with people so they could spy on me. At least, they cannot do that for now ;)

  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    • ProtonVPN – VPN
    • LibreWolf – Browser
      • uBlock Origin
      • Skip Redirect
      • NoScript
      • Decentraleyes
      • CookieAutoDelete
      • DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (tbh I’m not sure if this isn’t redundant frankly what with the others I have installed; might get rid of it…)
    • KeePassXC – Passwords
    • FreeTube – YouTube
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    13 days ago

    I don’t do much. Just changed dns to next dns, and set firefox to whipe all on exit.

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    12 days ago

    XMPP + OMEMO & Mumble for chat, offline maps from OSM, self-hosted feed aggregator

    NixOS, OpenWRT, LineageOS for microG, but would like to remove Android from my line up.

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        12 days ago

        Linux, Capyloon, KaiOS… kinda don’t care so long as it isn’t controlled by some US megacorporation

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        12 days ago

        e/OS. I have it on my FairPhone5, and it’s great for getting rid of google.

        https://doc.e.foundation/

        Of course graphineOS is more secure, but my main concerns are privacy and sustainability, so it was by far the best pick for me.

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    12 days ago

    Tubular (NewPipe + Sponsorblock), Fedora, Mastodon through Tusky, Lemmy through Eternity. Still waiting for LineageOS image for my phone (SM-A536B) tho.

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    12 days ago

    Some outside what others may say. Depends on what you’re trying to make private.

    Self-hosted Vaultwarden/BitWarden, SearXNG, and Firefox Sync. All things missing from your list to privatize the web.

    Signal/Matrix for chat.

    Organic Maps when you don’t need traffic for privatizing location.

    Self-hosted Nextcloud for file storage.

    And Obtainium (and gam for Linux) to break away from the stores themselves.

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    Freetube instead of youtube,

    Thunderbird calendar instead of something like google calendar,

    Signal instead of Discord or text,

    Tellico for all media lists instead of something like goodreads or online movie or game lists,

    Obsidian or Joplin for notes and organizing creative pursuits

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    Right now it’s whipper, beet, Navidrome and Symphonium.

    I’m buying cheap CDs in thrift stores and ripping them and really enjoy listening to my own music on my own devices.

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      Omg I just started doing the same thing, and I also love it. Really enjoying using Plexamp, it’s one of the best apps I’ve used in a long time, and it might be the best music app I’ve used.

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    Instead of naming my all time favorites I’ll name my most recent favorites…

    Inter Profile Sharing - FOSS app to share files and text between android profiles. Super useful as a GOS user.

    WG-tunnel - A way more feature rich version of the Wireguard app.