Share your favorite privacy apps and services!

General
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For me, DuckDuckGo and 1password are my two favorites, and Redact of course!

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A few privacy tools I always keep around

  • Bitwarden: password manager is still the biggest “privacy ROI” move IMO, especially if you turn on 2FA everywhere.

  • Signal: boring answer, but it’s the one I actually trust for everyday messagingg.

  • Mullvad VPN: simple, consistent, no weird upsells, and good for basic network privacy.

  • uBlock Origin: the “install it and forget it” browser add on that immediately cuts tracking and a lot of junk.

  • Firefox + containers: keeps logins and trackers from bleeding across sites.

  • SimpleLogin (or Proton Pass aliases): email aliases are underrated, it stops your real inbox from getting sprayed everywhere.

  • NextDNS easy way to reduce tracking across the whole device/network without tinkering too much.

  • 2FAS / Aegis (Android) or Ente Auth: I like separate authenticator apps instead of SMS codes.

  • * Ente Photos: for people trying to get away from “everything in one Google bucket.”

Curious what everyone uses for their digital EDC

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Find my device goes on everything I own, it’s usually the first thing I install. Luckily I have not had to use it yet, but I will be ready when the time comes…if it comes.

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Never give your credit card out again to anyone or any website. It’s bad ass.

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Portmaster is per-app network control plus monitoring with privacy-oriented defaults. Great for spotting noisy apps and blocking them without breaking everything else. Love it and highly reccommend.

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Amazing app I love it and it’s on every computer I own, including all our mobile devices

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mysudo and multi-login for creating different personas online. you can login to diifferent “personas” for different things. you can see all your own custom computer footprints and full proxy useage. both are very good apps.

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Multi-login is great.

I also use https://www.textverified.com/ which allows you to use other people’s phone number to verify accounts, and it’s cheap. So for example, you want to signup to a sports betting site or a new email service or whatever but you don’t want to use your real number, you can pay like 50 cents and use someone elses number. I use this service on a weekly basis.

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not really an app, but a anonymous google search start page.

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oh also brave, the best browser for privacy imo https://brave.com/

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email - proton mail

instant messaging - signal

search engine - DDG

VPN - Surf Shark

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Proton Authenticator is fantastic

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Bitwarden for me, can’t go wrong!