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

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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...

>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".

Much better

https://www.privacytools.io/

https://www.privacyguides.org

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

> (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.

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.

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".

Got any details on this apparent cozying?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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