X
★★★
Twitter was very anti-free speech.
X became very free speech, so I originally gave it 5 stars, because I am in favor of individual liberty.
But now the Musk is having people banned for things he happens to disagree with, such as criticizing H1B. Still more free speech than under Twitter, but not much more.
The most active areas that use Reddit (highest concentration of users) are ones like Eglin Air Force Base and Russian troll farms.
This is not going to fix the government propaganda.
Good, practical limitations. I don't much care for Etsy anyways, as they allowed the Chinese and Indian sellers in, selling mass amounts of Temu/Aliexpress junk as if it were handmade. And because the government (at least Chinese one) subsidizes their sellers shipping, it is cheaper for them to ship to the USA at least, than it is for USA to ship to USA (unless you are a big company like Amazon).
Good, Wayland is more secure
Mullvad Browser
★★★★★
Built on Firefox, it strips away telemetry, trackers, and other privacy-invasive features while adopting a “hide-in-the-crowd” approach to minimize your digital footprint. Unlike mainstream browsers like Chrome or Edge, Mullvad Browser is designed to make all users appear nearly identical to websites, reducing the ability to track you based on browser characteristics like fonts, screen resolution, or hardware APIs.
If you have to choose between this and Arkenfox.js profile on Firefox, this is a...
It's not really a private search engine, and its a proprietary browser: https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
The search is fine if you support planting trees. There is nothing wrong with that, I think it's good.
However, claiming to be a privacy browser when your privacy policy shows anything but that is deceptive.
And it's proprietary, we have no idea what's going on in the back. As others here have said, it already partners and shares data with Google and Microsoft, some of the big no-nos in the...
DuckDuckGo is not open-source, it is based in the USA (which generally means can have less privacy), and worst of all, they have started shadow banning results.
What I mean by shadow banning, is that they decide, based on their politics, the ranking of specific websites.
Now, I actually agree with their politics on the matter in question (concerning Ukraine), but I will no longer be using their search engine, because to me, humans controlling the rankings is unethical and nothing short of...
Portmaster
★★★★
It's not a bad app, but it is quite bloated, and lacks useful features like anonymized DNS through DNSCrypt currently. It would actually use less system resources to have Simple Wall + a dns service like YogaDNS, unbound, pi-hole. And you can have better ad-blocking with a client adblocker like Zen ad-blocker (and of course browser ad-blockers are even better, being able to block scripts and content filters).
It does have pretty granular control over connection, so that's good. But not as easy...
Windows - Privacy, Security, Open Source
This is a list that prefers open-source and lightweight Windows applications. A few partially open-source or proprietary applications may be added if there are no great alternatives.
Read the descriptions, as I wrote most of them, which gives advice on similar apps or other things to take into account.
Comment at the bottom if you believe anything should be updated or have any questions.
Android - Open-Source, Privacy, and convenience
The best Android apps for privacy and convenience. Open-source preferred. Remember, the most secure way to download an app is from its repo, such as Github. The Google Play store is actually more secure than F-Droid, as long as the app is trustworthy.
All of these have been tested as working on GrapheneOS and Android.
But remember, the more apps, the higher the attack surface.
OSINT
Find info on people
For more: https://github.com/lockfale/osint-framework
Online Privacy & Security Tools
Online tools to protect your privacy and security.