DeflectedBullhorn

@DeflectedBullhorn@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re on a Pixel, why not choose GrapheneOS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people find good information on the internet these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, I suggest sorting the comments by controversial on Reddit for another take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Raivo is “source available” actually. No real way to verify it, and no legal way to fork it from my understanding. For the moment I’ve settled on 2FAS as the best iOS replacement. I’ve used Tofu, but its inability to export is a dealbreaker, and the lack of updates is troubling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I tend to agree with the PrivacyGuides.org Team on this one. I’ll break it down slightly differently though. Brave isn’t BAD per se, but I strongly prefer not using a Chromium based browser unless it’s 100% necessary.

  Most private and secure but frustrating to use: Tor Browser

  Private and secure, still frustrating for daily use: Mullvad Browser

  Able to be private and secure, defaults aren’t perfect. Firefox + uBlock Origin

  Private and secure by default, potentially slowly updates and a smaller team might impact security. LibreWolf

  Chromium Based Browser with good Security and Privacy, defaults aren’t perfect: Brave

  Chromium Based Browser with good privacy, but potentially slow updates and a smaller team. Ungoogled Chromium + uBlock Origin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to have introduced you! 🙂 Hope you find it as helpful as I have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t feel like leaving the PG community atm, but here are a few suggestions that come to mind after reading your list.

  Search: SearXNG

  MacOS Firewall: Lulu

  DNS: NextDNS

  Email Alias: AnonAddy

  2FA: 2 FAS, iOS and Android

  2FA: Remove Ravio (sold to sketchy app maker MobiMe). I consider this compromised until proven otherwise.

  YT Proxies: Yattee (iOS App)

  File Encryption: Cryptomator (File encryption app, optimized for the cloud)

  Notes: Joplin

  Podcast: https://podverse.fm/

  Graphics: Digikam ente

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure. The manual down ranking of Russian search results didn’t really bother me, but the undisclosed inability to block Microsoft tracking in their browser was enough to have me avoid it going forward. Not a good look, especially when there are already better options in the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason for not just using PrivacyGuides.org instead? I like seeing a lot variety, but PrivacyGuides seems like the cream of the crop in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Brave’s dependence on Chromium (and therefore Google) to be troubling. They don’t have the engineering team to keep up with Google as they continue backtracking on the “Don’t Be Evil” motto.

  For the same reason, I prefer Brave Search over DuckDuckGo. DDG relies almost entirely on Bing for its results. In comparison, Brave Search has a completely independent search index and does its own web crawling.