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.
Pi-Hole for home Wifi, Guest Wifi for IoT devices. For Desktop PC I use Linux, hardened Firefox, uBlock Origin extension. For the Phone I use NextDNS, work Profile for IoT apps, and F-Droid for some apps.
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.
By far my all-time favorite app - Freetube. Used to be KDE Connect for transferring files between devices, and still is an useful app. But man Freetube is amazing
Freetube who is the Dev? I find several apps named this.
Oh I thought this was android like fdroid or something. Damn. I'll still check it out in desktop.
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.
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.
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?
Linux, Capyloon, KaiOS… kinda don’t care so long as it isn’t controlled by some US megacorporation
For me the fediverse and Librewolf on Linux
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.
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).
Public forums do not have privacy
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.
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.
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.
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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Invizible pro, Cromite, Apktool M/MT Manager (for manually reverse engineering apps), App Manager (for finding spywares in apps), Warden (for disabling them)
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.
Tubular (NewPipe + Sponsorblock), Fedora, Mastodon through Tusky, Lemmy through Eternity. Still waiting for LineageOS image for my phone (SM-A536B) tho.
Rethink DNS.
I'm running stock android for work reasons, Rethink is awesome
uBlock Origin NoScript
NoScript is redundant with uBO. As well as DuckDuckGo extension.
Decentraleyes CookieAutoDelete
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 ;)
Monero, SimpleX
I don't do much. Just changed dns to next dns, and set firefox to whipe all on exit.
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.
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
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
Honestly, just Unbound for DNS filtering + Tailscale + commercial VPN solves 99% of my problems with privacy online.
Tailscale
Have you considered Headscale?
I really wanted it to work on Fly.io but I couldn’t get it to. I’d also like to get the Tailscale software Dockerized but running multiple nodes on the same host with custom DNS was a complete shitshow.
I really love Tailscale, but the daemon and CLI seem to be absolute garbage.
Favourite: GrapheneOS
Others that I like: Monero Librewolf SimpleLogin MullvadVPN PiHole
CommonSense 2024, the best antivirus solution I’ve ever tried. Highly recommend it. Compatible with phones, tablets, computers, potatoes etc.
But is it compatable with my 1999 toaster. It can run doom if that helps
If it supports Electricity V 230, you should be fine. If it’s still on V 120, all bets are off.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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