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What are your favorite privacy programs you use frequently? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use MullvadVPN, GrapheneOS and Linux but I also search for any more apps not like OSes. What'a your favorites?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ones like Lemmy fit in fine to my threat model. They enable me to use privacy tools up-to-and-including Tor routing, without a phone number or other personally identifying info (you can't do those with many other social media platforms). I can use the Fediverse pseudonymously, and if I ever want to, anonymously.

I'm not hiding this conversation from you, but I am hiding my identity from companies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ah yea reddit seems to hate TOR.

Not to mention that most subreddits have a soft ban on new accounts. Extremely infuriating.

Lemmy seems so welcoming to TOR users, I mean I had to fill out an "application" but I just used a temp email. Lovely place, hidden behind anonymity, well kind of... as long as the NSA doesnt suddenly spend the entire US budget hunting me, I'd be anonymous. They got bigger fishes to catch.