My mom doesn't give much attention to which apps she uses as long as it works and does what she wants. Luckily I think a lot about what software is good or not good for my mom. These apps give you better control, no ads, mostly open-source AND they are as convenient as the more famous (but evil) apps.
A menstrual cycle tracking app that's open-source and leaves your data on your phone. Use it to track your menstrual cycle and/or for fertility awareness!.
It is a period tracker that stores your sensitive information on your device.
Federated image sharing platform prioritizing privacy, safety, and user control, ad-free operation, no algorithms, open-source, and supports self-hosting.
My mom never liked Facebook so she used Instagram. We now all know that that is the same... For choosing an instance I went to https://fedidb.com/software/pixelfed and filtered it by Latest Version, Open Registration and Region: Europe.
Open-source service offering unlimited anonymous email aliases, encrypted forwarding, spam protection, and anonymous replies to keep your identity private.
10 free aliases, that way she doesn't have to share her real email address all the time.
An encrypted messaging app focused on privacy, supporting texts, calls, photos, videos, files, and group chats, with no ads or trackers.
Whatsapp without bloat, I mean if you don't do it for the 'privacy', do it for the convenience of not getting AI-slop or messages from Whatsapp itself.
I've set the blocking level to Optimal so that she doesn't see ads on websites + turned on blocking cookie banners.
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of intrusive ads and online tracking, and to protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing faster, safer and more comfortable with AdGuard!.
You can also choose for AdGuard instead of uBlock Origin Lite. It has a lot of features: blocking ads, protecting you on Safari, changing your DNS-server or VPN... but for most of the features you'll need to buy a subscription.
Our public encrypted DNS service uses DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT). This protects your DNS queries from being snooped on by third parties when not connected to our VPN service as your DNS queries are encrypted between your device and our DNS server.
I've set this up while connecting to the home wifi.
Search engine donating over 80% of profits to global reforestation, supporting millions of trees planted, funded by ad revenue, with mobile and web access.
Good search results and most of their profit goes to planting trees instead of extra horns for the evil persons of the internet.
You can choose between getting the search results from Google and/or from Bing.
Just explain why you want to set it up and she will understand it. You just have to make sure that it doesn't make her digital life more complicated.
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