My privacy & user friendly setup

For my smartphone

Android with privacy by default in mind and without any Google code in it but an option to enable microG .

Worth mentioning :
GrapheneOS 🔒 Most secure and private CustomROM
DivestOS Not always secure but pretty good
/e/ almost never secure
LineageOS for microG Not secure
LineageOS Not secure

My linux-based operating system for my gaming rig.

I love it !

Worth mentioning :
Linux Mint For Windows users
elementary OS For macOS users
Fedora Seems to became one of the best choice for linux begginers

For more advanced privacy and security :
Qubes OS
Whonix
Alpine Linux

For my work laptop !

If you don't use iCloud and the Apple App Store macOS is quite a solide option in my opinion !
I use Little Snitch to have better control.
But you could use :
Radio Silence Cheaper, simpler, a bit less powerful
LuLu by Objective-See FOSS

Worth mentioning :
airyxOS Early stage of dev

A liveOS that you can run on any PC since you install it on a USB stick ! It clean EVERYTHING after you shutdown the machine !

DDG is my go to recommendation as it's a powerful Google competitor and the default on the Tor Browser !
They also have an HTML-only version and a Lite version + an onion site.

Worth mentioning :
Startpage Google index but private 🔍
Qwant French company 🇫🇷
Brave Search Nice index IN BETA 🦁
MetaGer 100% renewable energy + non-profit 🌍
Mojeek The OG of private search engine 👴🏽
Swisscows The one under the Swiss Alps that gives some benefit to charity. 🇨🇭🏔

Self hostable :
Searx Open source multi search engine scrapper
Whoogle Search Open source Google scrapper with no JavaScript or tracking

I would recommend to read their privacy policy :

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
https://www.startpage.com/privacy-policy/
https://search.brave.com/help/privacy-policy
https://about.qwant.com/legal/confidentialite/
https://metager.org/datenschutz
https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/
https://swisscows.com/privacy

Or compare them with this website : https://searchengine.party/

For Android

I always go with Bromite. You can add their official repository in your F-Droid client or download the APK from their official website/GitHub.

Worth mentioning :
Mull Gecko based (Firefox)
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
Privacy Browser

For iOS

The most private and secure iOS browser yet. Not the best UI but fully featured !

Worth mentioning:
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
Mozilla Firefox Disable analytics
Firefox Focus Disable analytics
Orion Browser IN BETA

For your computer

I always go with Firefox. Disabling Mozilla analytics in settings and installing uBlock Origin makes it more private.
If you want to harden your FF I would recommend you to look at Arkenfox user.js !

Worth mentioning :
Brave Chromium based
LibreWolf Firefox but with a brave approach (no cryptocrap)
Orion Browser WebKit based (Safari), macOS only IN BETA

For every device

Tor Browser is the best when it comes to privacy and anonymity. But it's slow and some websites are broken.

For iOS

The Tor Project recommends Onion Browser has there is no official Tor Browser app on the AppStore due to Apple controlling the web engine of your devices.

My browser selector on macOS

The browser selector I would use on Windows 10

My browser selector on Linux kernel

This one is a must. If you just installing it will automatically blocks all ads and most trackers. But it has more features than that. I recommend you to look at the doc.

I really love this one. It allow you to reddirect your traffic to privacy front-end instance.
For exemple a friend send you a link of a funny cat meme on reddit. If you have this extension it will redirect you to the exact same meme but instead of loading the official quiet invasive reddit website it will load a LibReddit/Teddit instance.
Works for :
YouTube -> Invidious / Piped / FreeTube / Yattee
YouTube Music -> Beatbump
Twitter -> Nitter
Instagram -> Bibliogram
TikTok -> ProxiTok
Reddit -> Libreddit / teddit
Imgur -> RimGo
Spotify Preview -> PlaySoju
Wikipedia -> Wikiless
Medium -> Scribe
PeerTube
LBRY & Odysee
Google Search -> Searx / Whoogle Search / Startpage
Google Translate -> Lingva Translate / LibreTranslate
Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap / FacilMap
Send

The best F-Droid client in my opinion.
I do use the official F-Droid client because it ships with privilege extension on CalyxOS, but with the new Android 12 third arty store feature, this one could totally replace it.

If you're on iOS the easiest, legal way to sideload apps is AltStore. Unfortunately it's not comparable to any third party store on Android but hey it work and does not break Apple Terms of Services !

Monero(XMR) is the digital-cash. Untraceable, anonymous and secure by default !
To me it's like bitcoin but for the modern days, you can't make something perfect on the first try ;)

Learn more on their website and in this amazing book

ONLY USE WALLET RECOMMENDED ON getmonero.org

Bitcoin(BTC) is the first cryptocurrency. It's secure but not anonymous by default, even if people think so. Actually it's not private at all since the blockchain is public and that nowadays people gives KYC while buying crypto. Look at it like the digital-gold. It's more accepted than Monero though.

BTC for Android

THE best crypto-wallet for Android (better than any iPhone wallet) if using bitcoin privately matters to you ! BTC only