I use MullvadVPN, GrapheneOS and Linux but I also search for any more apps not like OSes. What’a your favorites?
- 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
Invizible pro, Cromite, Apktool M/MT Manager (for manually reverse engineering apps), App Manager (for finding spywares in apps), Warden (for disabling them)
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.
I made my own list of software, and most of those listed are software I use daily.
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.
Rethink DNS.
I’m running stock android for work reasons, Rethink is awesome
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.Tubular (NewPipe + Sponsorblock), Fedora, Mastodon through Tusky, Lemmy through Eternity. Still waiting for LineageOS image for my phone (SM-A536B) tho.
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.
What would you replace Android with?
e/OS. I have it on my FairPhone5, and it’s great for getting rid of google.
Of course graphineOS is more secure, but my main concerns are privacy and sustainability, so it was by far the best pick for me.
Mullvad, Tor, i2p, Graphene, Linux in general, Proton, SimpeL
What is i2p good for? I install it evert now and then, give it a whirl, and then uninstall it
Like hidden services, I like the ideas of uncensorable content and real free speech or similar
Yeah but how do you use it? There’s no searchable index as far as I’ve seen
If people share links, public index
Honestly, just Unbound for DNS filtering + Tailscale + commercial VPN solves 99% of my problems with privacy online.
Tailscale
Have you considered Headscale?
Favourite: GrapheneOS
Others that I like: Monero Librewolf SimpleLogin MullvadVPN PiHole
Instead of naming my all time favorites I’ll name my most recent favorites…
Inter Profile Sharing - FOSS app to share between files and text between android profiles. Super useful as a GOS user.
WG-tunnel - A way more feature rich version of the Wireguard app.
I needed inter profile sharing so so so many times. No more texting myself photos! Damn I can’t believe I didn’t think of this.
Author says it should work even in airplane mode which is pretty cool.
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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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
Which free tube app there is several? I was using libretube or something but it bugs out a lot.