Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:
Check out our website at privacyguides.org before asking your questions here. We've tried answering the common questions and recommendations there!
Want to get involved? The website is open-source on GitHub, and your help would be appreciated!
This community is the "official" Privacy Guides community on Lemmy, which can be verified here. Other "Privacy Guides" communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by this team or associated with the website.
Moderation Rules:
- We prefer posting about open-source software whenever possible.
- This is not the place for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our forum first.
- No soliciting engagement: Don't ask for upvotes, follows, etc.
- Surveys, Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team.
- Be civil, no violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith.
- Don't repost topics which have already been covered here.
- News posts must be related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the post body or a comment.
- Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from reputable sources are acceptable.
- No help vampires: This is not a tech support subreddit, don't abuse our community's willingness to help. Questions related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their configurations are acceptable.
- No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must be matched with evidence.
- Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which are not listed on privacyguides.org. See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website.
- General guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.
Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
On iOS so everything is technically just safari anyway unfortunately. I use the DuckDuckGo browser as I’ve never had any issue with its search function and I like the layout of the app, and appreciate at least a slight increase in privacy and tracker protection. I am also unreasonably attached to the little fire animation that plays when you click “clear all tabs and data.” That is my largely nontechnical but honest review haha
LibreWolf as my main and Brave for logging in to more disposable stuff.
Brave search is my main search and using Duckduckgo if I don't find what I'm looking for.
Currently using Orion on iOS. It’s made by the same people behind the Kagi search engine (which I also use now).
It’s still in alpha, so I occasionally encounter a bug, but the fact that it has built-in advert and tracking protection, as well as cool tab-suspend features sold me.
It tends to be on a newer version of WebKit then then Safari as well.
Oh, and did I mention it can use both Chrome and Firefox extensions?
I use LibreWolf on my laptops, Lynx on my old laptop, and Brave on my iPhone.
Kiwi Next + Ublock
Currently using firefox but I'll probably be switching to Safari on Mac once proton pass is out. Depending on where proton pass is available on android or if it allows autofill in all apps, I might switch from fennec too.