I use MullvadVPN, GrapheneOS and Linux but I also search for any more apps not like OSes. What’a your favorites?
Favourite: GrapheneOS
Others that I like: Monero Librewolf SimpleLogin MullvadVPN PiHole
I don’t do much. Just changed dns to next dns, and set firefox to whipe all on exit.
Cromite.
Mulch is a mobile chromium browser made by DivestOS (same folks who make Mull). Maybe worth checking out over Cromite.
Why?
Cromite is excellent.
Too bad it’s chromium based, but works a whole lot smoother and snappier than Firefox based browsers, oh and safer as well… So for the time being, Cromite it is.
Librewolf on desktop Linux is my weapon of choise.
I trust the DivestOS team while I have no clue who runs Cromite. Plus, Bromite being abandoned made me look into other options, which makes me trust Divest to keep Mulch running longer than the Cromite team I guess.
Well who knows?
I have no problem switching to an alternative is Cromite bellies-up tomorrow.
For now though I’ll stick with it.
For me the fediverse and Librewolf on Linux
I’m the same here as I too use the Fediverse and LibreWolf, but we should 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.
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
Most people, however, are not that careful about partitioning their accounts (myself included, frankly).
i mean it’s in the name:
FEDiverseLol.
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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.
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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.
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.
- 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
uBlock Origin NoScript
NoScript is redundant with uBO. As well as DuckDuckGo extension.
Decentraleyes CookieAutoDelete
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
Which free tube app there is several? I was using libretube or something but it bugs out a lot.
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
gamfor Linux) to break away from the stores themselves.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.
What would you replace Android with?
e/OS. I have it on my FairPhone5, and it’s great for getting rid of google.
Of course graphineOS is more secure, but my main concerns are privacy and sustainability, so it was by far the best pick for me.
Mullvad, Tor, i2p, Graphene, Linux in general, Proton, SimpeL
What is i2p good for? I install it evert now and then, give it a whirl, and then uninstall it
Like hidden services, I like the ideas of uncensorable content and real free speech or similar
Yeah but how do you use it? There’s no searchable index as far as I’ve seen
If people share links, public index
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
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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 between files and text between android profiles. Super useful as a GOS user.
WG-tunnel - A way more feature rich version of the Wireguard app.
I needed inter profile sharing so so so many times. No more texting myself photos! Damn I can’t believe I didn’t think of this.
Author says it should work even in airplane mode which is pretty cool.
Honestly, just Unbound for DNS filtering + Tailscale + commercial VPN solves 99% of my problems with privacy online.
Tailscale
Have you considered Headscale?
I made my own list of software, and most of those listed are software I use daily.
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.
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.
