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These are some notes on technology I use to improve my daily security and privacy, inspired by a page on [1]Supernova's capsule.
1: gemini://supernovas.space/mytoolkit.gmi
Stay away from services that reap benefits from using my personal data
For an exhaustive list of my [2]recommended software, see below:
[3]ProtonVPN, the best free and privacy-respecting VPN. Based in Switzerland.
[4]Bitwarden password manager, using the EU-based servers.
[5]Mozilla Thunderbird, an email client that just works.
5: https://www.thunderbird.net/
[6]LibreWolf, a Firefox fork with privacy enhancements. Let's topple the Blink empire!
[7]ProtonMail, one of the best free and privacy-respecting email providers. Based in Switzerland.
[8]Codeberg, easily the best git hosting out there. Based in Germany.
[9]NextDNS, which lets me block ads, trackers, and even TLDs (such as .ru). Based in USA, but I configured my account to store its logs in Switzerland.
[10]SearXNG, a distributed metasearch engine that I have used happily for a long time, excluding a period of about a year when Google's antics made Searx, SearXNG, Startpage, LibreX, and LibreY unusable.
[11]Filen, which provides large-capacity cloud storage for very reasonable prices; including a free tier and the option to pay once for a lifetime subscription. Based in Germany.
ALRIGHT! I know Apple sucks. Stop telling me to get an Android! It'll happen eventually! Just shut up for a bit!
[12]2FAS Auth, which is quite reminiscent of Raivo (which was my go-to MFA solution until its mysterious sale to a shady company).
[13]Ice Cubes, a pretty neat Mastodon client
13: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
[14]NetNewsWire, the only decent RSS reader on iOS by miles! (Except for the generic RSS Reader app I was using beforehand, which was alright)
[15]Onion Browser, the closest thing to Tor Browser we'll get until Apple allows Gecko on iPhones.
[16]WireGuard, which lets me use ProtonVPN and NextDNS at the same time
16: https://www.wireguard.com/
[17]iSH, which is essentially an x86 emulator running Alpine Linux
[18]a-Shell, a lighter and less versatile shell app, which just runs a shell on top of the Darwin kernel that iOS is based on. Package management is done mainly through pip.
18: https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/
As you should be able to see at the bottom of my front page, I have four laptops running different Linux distributions.
[19]Bitwarden, as mentioned before, is a password manager that I use with the EU servers.
19: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/bitwarden-password-manager/
[20]Flagfox is a simple extension that shows the nationality of whichever website you're on. It turns out that Repology, a popular software version tracking service, is hosted in Russia!
20: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flagfox/
[21]I still don't care about cookies is simply a cookie notice blocker. It was forked from the original "I don't care about cookies" after it was sold to Avast.
21: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
[22]NoScript is a script blocker, which can make browsing a little clunky, but considerably faster, more secure, and less bloated.
22: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/noscript/
[23]Redirector is an extension that redirects you from specific websites to other sites, depending on your config. I use it to automatically send me to privacy-respecting proxies and alternative frontends of popular sites. E.g. YouTube -> CloudTube, Xitter -> Nitter, Medium -> Scribe, etc.
23: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/redirector/
[24]ToS;DR is an organisation that reads the privacy policies and terms of service of various websites, then gives them a privacy grade. This extension places the grade in the address bar, next to Flagfox, where I can see it.
24: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/terms-of-service-didnt-read/
[25]uBlock origin is, to me, the most essential browser extension. It blocks ads and trackers with superb speed and with minimal resource usage.
25: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
EDIT 22/02/2024: I thought the dev behind one of the projects above was dead. Either he's a zombie now, or that was a Mandela effect. Either way, I've corrected it.