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What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hai@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Title says it all. I'll go first:

I don't really have any on my computer (all I use that for is Vim, Firefox, and Git), but on my phone: Orbot (basically Tor as a VPN on your phone).

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[–] willeypete23@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought it was regarded as a dick move to put a lot of traffic through tor?

[–] EatSleepBatheRepeat@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hear such mixed messages about this and would love for somebody to educate me. Do we:

Avoid using tor to free it up for those who actually need it
Use tor whenever, and normalise it so that somebody using tor isn't immediately considered to be a journalist/dissident/person with something to hide.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Avoid using too much bandwidth on Tor. Do not stream or torrent over Tor. Use it for basic browsing as much as you want, without burdening the nodes in terms of bandwidth. Never use your personal login accounts over Tor.

[–] hai@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you really aren't supposed to... I rarely use Orbot to be honest, it's just super useful if I do need to use it, like on a network that blocks a whole bunch of things and you want to catch up on Matrix messages or whatever. Also, if you're worried about your phone updating or making a bunch of useless requests, you can turn on low data mode/mark your current connection as metered.