What is a privacy-friendly app or service that more people should know about?

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21 Comments

Fake4000@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y

Syncthing.

Amazing that you could sync your android phone's data to a PC locally. No cloud drive needed.

ag10n@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nextdns.io for hosted DNS blocks ads and malware.

Also this list

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

Interstellar_1@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah I love that list. I contribute to it when I can. This one is also great, I just found it recently.

Tazerface@lemmings.world · 11 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Syncthing, NextDNS, Obtainium, F-Droid, Briar, Futo Voice.

iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
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sbv@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Briar and Futo Voice sound cool.

How do you trigger Futo Voice?

Tazerface@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 2y

I tap the microphone icon on my keyboard.

raldone01@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Obtainium seems very cool! Installs/Updates apps from GitHub GitLab releases.

neidu2@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 2y

Matrix

4am@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

Quad9

clemdemort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Freetube!

Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Cherrytree. It's a hierarchical list-making application which you can easily use to organise your entire existence in a single encrypted file.

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

F-Droid

It's a FOSS app store for Android. Contains many privacy apps.

F-Droid website

(I usually assume everyone on Lemmy already knows about it)

tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

In the case of "app", for what platform?

I mean, virtually all of the software in the Linux distribution that I use is privacy-friendly in that it doesn't send data about me elsewhere.

Interstellar_1@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y

Any platform, the question is purposefully broad

iiGxC@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Simplex and signal

Interstellar_1@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What does simple x do better than signal?

iiGxC@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y

Idk all the details, the difference is probably negligible for most people tho

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Warpinator also works on phones.

Interstellar_1@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What is that?

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's a device to make phone calls, but that's not important right now.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Surely you aren't serious!?