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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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[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 18 hours ago

It's not about what you use, it's what you don't.

[–] goog70@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Freetube who is the Dev? I find several apps named this.

[–] codenul@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Linsensuppe@feddit.org 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For me the fediverse and Librewolf on Linux

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i mean it's in the name:
FEDiverse

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[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Public forums do not have privacy

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • 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 ;)

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • 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
[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

Monero, SimpleX

[–] iii@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] karthnemesis@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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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[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] nis@feddit.dk 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

I made my own list of software, and most of those listed are software I use daily.

  • Fossify mobile suite: It contains all basic tools from a launcher to a notes app
  • Clipious: Open source youtube frontend
  • Obtainium: Frontend to download apps
  • FluffyChat: Matrix client
  • Vanadium: Secure chromium fork
  • Mull: Less secure then Vanadium but Firefox based
  • Thunderbird: Lemmy client
  • Termux: Android terminal
  • Thunderbird: Open source email client (now on mobile)
  • HeliBoard: Open source keyboard
[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Rethink DNS.

I'm running stock android for work reasons, Rethink is awesome

[–] sproid@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

CommonSense 2024, the best antivirus solution I’ve ever tried. Highly recommend it. Compatible with phones, tablets, computers, potatoes etc.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But is it compatable with my 1999 toaster. It can run doom if that helps

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

If it supports Electricity V 230, you should be fine. If it’s still on V 120, all bets are off.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mulch is a mobile chromium browser made by DivestOS (same folks who make Mull). Maybe worth checking out over Cromite.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zingo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Well who knows?

I have no problem switching to an alternative is Cromite bellies-up tomorrow.

For now though I'll stick with it.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, just Unbound for DNS filtering + Tailscale + commercial VPN solves 99% of my problems with privacy online.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] chevy9294@monero.town 3 points 2 weeks ago

Favourite: GrapheneOS

Others that I like: Monero Librewolf SimpleLogin MullvadVPN PiHole

[–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Invizible pro, Cromite, Apktool M/MT Manager (for manually reverse engineering apps), App Manager (for finding spywares in apps), Warden (for disabling them)

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