Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
Note: This setup is both for my android and pc Edit: For those recommending paid services and selfhosting, I don't have the money nor resources for either. Also it seams some people are confusing my android setup with my PC setup so I'll write it down. Android: Brave(movies) + Ironfox, Search: Brave + DDG, VPN: Proton ( not always on), GPay = Cash, Auth= Aegis Auth, Pass: KeepassDX, PC: Firefox= Librewolf, VPN = No VPN (VERY slow internet), Search: Searxng + DDG, Pass: KeepassXC,
Arch's recent stance on age verification, and specifically how they said it, has made me switch off of Arch for good, which is... Unfortunate, since it was the first distro I truly loved. Gentoo is what I use now, but that's a bit farther down the line. I don't know a good rolling release distro that's not super inconvenient, unfortunately.
Brave is... Not great. Bad, even. I prefer Vivaldi for my Chromium fork. Mullvad browser for my Firefox fork (I also just. Refuse to use Firefox proper anymore because of their AUP). Note that one of Mullvad's CEOs donated to a Swedish far right party, so... Make that decision how you will. It's a free browser, so... Meh.
My default search engine is Wikipedia. When I want to use a general search engine, order of operations is Marginalia, then Startpage, but SearXNG is a good one. I just found it a bit more inconsistent.
Tuta's a good provider, I just needed a client because I don't check my email otherwise. I'm on mailbox.org now because of that. They're cheaper, and private email is kind of a farce anyway. Also mailbox is cheaper, assuming Tuta doesn't have a free plan now. Given you said you're not using paid apps, they might?
I'm using CachyOS an optimised arch-based distro. I was searching for an alternative to brave on desktop, the top recommendations were Vivaldi and Helium, so i will try both. From experience, Mullvad is very good especially against fingerprinting. Tuta has their own app on android and for desktop I use the website, they're the most secure option out there, they also have a good free plan.
Very nice. Only complaint is this only existing as a jpeg rather than a vector svg.
I highly recommend NextDNS. You can also filter domaims with it. It even has lists so you don't have to filter every one. I use the "No Google" and "No Facebook" lists, along with several others.
Check out ente as an alternative to Google Photos. I've been using them since 2023 when Google announced they own your photos and they were going to be ~~instead~~ ingested into AI.
Edit: typo. Looks great BTW. Good progress.
I'm not using ente because they have a cloud storage, the only safe storage is the one you have
How about Immich then?
Fair! I could be held hostage in that way, but as a paying user, I (so far) trust them to use my subscription fees to pay for servers. I really like that all the ML processing happens locally, and they have no insight into any of my photos. I did look into Immich, but at the time, self-hosting was not an option as I was living in a developing country.
Edit: I was mostly looking at how a gallery app (which is also the one I use) isn't a replacement for gPhotos.
i hate brave. use waterfox with kagi or librefox with kagi or startpage