A list of online services to regain control over your privacy online

pixelpoet 1 year ago |

Pretty ironic that the cookie agreement is one of those ones where you have to click a billion times on each vendor's legitimate pain in the ass setting.

Thanks for selling my data! Now please, tell me more about online privacy...

freetonik 1 year ago |

>Rumble instead YouTube

The front page of Rumble is full of American conservative and far-right content. The company behind Rumble hosts Truth Social. A weird way to "regain control over your privacy online".

lazyeye 1 year ago |

Much better

https://www.privacytools.io/

morjom 1 year ago | |

Or

https://www.privacyguides.org

(I do remember there was some debaucle between the sites)

aspenmayer 1 year ago | | |

> (I do remember there was some debaucle between the sites)

That's putting it lightly, per Privacy Guides:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/

> PrivacyTools has become exactly the type of site we warned against on the PrivacyTools blog in 2019.

swizzccp 1 year ago |

Just spam from the proton team, they really are notorious spammers. How could anyone trust a "privacy" company that does such shady marketing? Look at antics on Reddit for a primer sadly now on linux org even.

kwar13 1 year ago | |

Mind elaborating a bit? This is the first time I'm hearing this. I thought their entire selling point was privacy and end-to-end encryption for emails.

quickslowdown 1 year ago | | |

That encryption is flimsy, they can (and do) break it for governments.

fracus 1 year ago | |

Apparently Protonmail have been cozying up to Trump as well. I've heard Tuta to be a good alternative I'm trying out. They are also encrypted but I think they also spam you with their "plans".

gausswho 1 year ago | | |

Got any details on this apparent cozying?

fracus 1 year ago | | |

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...

gausswho 1 year ago | | |

I'm four days later responding, but for what it's worth I find this source to be damning of email as a captured protocol, but meh on the implication that the Proton management is cozy to the Trump administration. Rather just clumsy in the quiet part out loud way.

fracus 1 year ago | | |

You can't wake a person pretending to be asleep.

bbbhltz 1 year ago |

The first list on the thread is not the greatest advice, in my opinion. But, I suppose that is a good way to start a thread: mix reasonable with unreasonable. Later commments mix security and privacy together.

gfkclzhzo 1 year ago |

Browser, Desktop - Icecat

Broswer, Mobile - Fennec

Credentials - KeepassXC + Aegis/WinAuth

File Sync - Syncthing

Video - Jellyfin

Music - Navidrome

Audiobooks & Podcasts - Audiobookshelf

Books - Calibre Web

Pictures - Immich

Finances - ActualBudget + SimpleFIN

DNS Filter - AdGuard

Email - FowardEmail + Thunderbird and RoundCube

VPN/DDNS - Cloudflare Tunnels

Search/LLMs - Kagi

FuriousDog 1 year ago |

There's one I have been trying for now Zunu suite by ziroh labs

kittikitti 1 year ago |

All you have to do is put in your name, phone number, email, credit card, and address and your privacy is preserved!*

* Unless you missed a payment, in which case we will get our fixers with all your information to harass you until you do.