nikitavoloboev / privacy-respecting Goto Github PK

It would be nice to add the GNU Ring messenger. http://ring.cx

Decentralised, blockchain based app, anonymous and open source ☺️

Yeeturl webpage says "Due to many issues we've had with Glitch (such as slow loading times, project hours and no way to pull code from a git repository), yeeturl is now hosted on Repl.it. Please use yeeturl.github.io instead." However, even the new link doesn't even exist. I don't see any harm in removing it from the list.

Exchange content with https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy for maximum information quality.

Google Keep is a pretty nice app to keep notes. But since it is made by Google, I do have my doubts when it comes to privacy. Are there any nice once out there that has good UI and has really good privacy?

This list seems to implicitly assume that Apple respects privacy, which is at odds with the FSF's analysis.

Depending on how much privacy you want to suggest at the OS level, you might consider advertising Tails and/or Qubes:

• https://tails.boum.org/
• https://www.qubes-os.org/

Migadu Email Review

Basic Information

Name: Migadu
Category: Email
URL: https://www.migadu.com/
Jurisdiction: Switzerland
Source: https://github.com/migadu/

Description

Migadu is an independent email hosting from Switzerland.

Encryption:

• Allow users to use their own domain name.
• Supports standard email access protocols. (IMAP, POP3, SMTP).

Privacy:

• Doesn't require personally identifiable information (PII) besides username and password.
• Privacy policy that meets the requirements defined by the GDPR

Security:

• Allows 2FA,
• Supports DNSSEC
• Website uses HTTPS and Subresource Integrity
• Registered on the EFF's STARTTLS-Everywhere
• No TLS errors/vulnerabilities when being profiled by tools such as Hardenize or Qualys SSL Labs, this includes certificate related errors, poor or weak ciphers suites, weak DH parameters such as those that led to Logjam.
• Valid DMARC, SPF and DKIM

Trust:

• Public-facing leadership or ownership.

Marketing:

• Complies with DNT, no poor claims.

Issue's:

• Doesn't support DANE
• No valid MTA-STS and TLS-RPT policy
• googletagmanager.com is present on the homepage

Why I am making the suggestion

They are down to earth with the offering of unlimited domains, storage, etc. I would give them full marks for philosophical, ethical, and technical merits.

Taken from Drew DeVault on mastodon.

My connection with the software

I have no connection with the software, however I am enthusiastic about it.

• I will keep the issue up-to-date if something I have said changes or I remember a connection with the software.

WhatsApp - Uses Signal Protocol but logs all the metadata around messages

The Guardian article linked there was wildly misleading and bad journalism, as denounced by the authors of Signal themselves, amongst many other experts. Also, it has nothing to do with "logging all the metadata".

Please don't spread that unfortunate FUD.

• https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/22/whatsapp-signal-and-dangerously-ignorant-journalism/
• http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687

https://www.apple.com/privacy/ is nothing but a marketing campaign.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ is the real privacy policy.

I love this list, but I notice the only reason Microsoft's products are in the "bad" list is "owned by Microsoft". They aren't really too bad nowadays on privacy, especially compared to Google, or how they used to be. It just seems a little biased to me, especially since Apple Siri is included in the good list, but they were using contractors to listen to audio snippets without being clear, etc.

Hello sir, I'm a graphic designer and I would love to contribute to your project with a logo. This is completely free, take it as a contribution. In case you agree I would be presenting sketches and you will be choosing/modifying the aspects you like more so we could work on the perfect logo for your project together.

Let me know what do you think? best regards :)

There are several BSD's missing, including OpenBSD (probably the most secure OS in the universe), and other Unices (pl. of Unix) like the illumos family. Non-Unices like ReactOS which tries to be a free Windows replacement, Haiku, KolibriOS. Just browse Wikipedia for a more complete list.

At least, if you mention FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD should be mentioned.
Allow me to include GhostBSD, NomadBSD and FuryBSD which are desktop friendly/live takes on FreeBSD. OS108 for NetBSD.
The BSD's have a truly free license compared to GNU's ones (the GPL's) which are free, but with restrictions (hence restrictive licenses, versus BSD's totally free, as in a gift, licenses).

https://prism-break.org/en/all/

A wonderful professor Sir Martyn Thomas first made made take Startpage seriously and I preferred them over DDG because of nativity, but then Techrights pointed out they were sold over a year ago to some data collecting company.
Startpage itself claims to maintain it's control over it's privacy policy, but it has became harder to trust them.
My research is just other peoples research (and superficially so).

So just a heads up.
https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-startpage/

Could you add Pale Moon and Otter to the list of browsers?
Here's some info about Pale Moon:
General Information: http://www.palemoon.org/info.shtml
FAQ: http://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml
Rumor Control: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21626&p=164710

One of the devs is sometimes kind of rude to people who regurgitate myths about the browser, which has given them a lot of bad PR lately, but I really don't think it's fair to judge the community as a whole based on his behavior as some do.

The Otter browser is a project by former Opera devs to create a browsing experience like that of Opera, powered by the WebKit engine, qt5, and eventually Chrome's add-on system. It's kind of buggy at the moment, but may at least be something to look out for in the relatively near future. The website is here: https://otter-browser.org/

Lastly, I'd like to mention Gab at https://gab.com/ which is more or less Twitter without the ridiculous amounts of censorship. While it is often called an "echo chamber for the far-right" so are Minds and BitChute, and the claims are just as false for Gab as for them.

Many social platforms are closed-sourced and invasive. Though, some have private alternative front-ends that allow users to browse the site free of trackers, ads and cookies by proxying their web traffic through the alternative client.

Examples:

• YouTube -> Invidious
• Twitter -> Nitter
• Instagram -> Bibliogram
• Reddit -> Libreddit

This would be a great addition to provide resources to those who don't want to ditch a platform altogether (services like YouTube and Twitter are especially hard to avoid on the internet) but still want to browse them privately.

Being a bit meta here, but ownership of github (and the entire Chad’s garage problem) should probably be pointed out, too?

Delist: Keybase, Silence and Telegram.
Add: Status - Encrypted instant messenger with an integrated Ethereum wallet (cryptocurrency) that also includes support for DApps (decentralized apps) (web apps in a curated store). Uses the Waku protocol (a fork of Whisper) for P2P communication. Only available for iOS and Android.

I know this a strange one, but should there be an alternative for GitHub now because Microsoft is taking over? I might slowly move to GitLab.

I would like to suggest that we include a note taking software section to the list. Digital notebooks are ubiquitous and something that most of us need. Therefore, including privacy-respecting alternatives in the list can help many people to protect their data further. e.g. #42

What do you think about it?

Snips.ai got bought by sonos and doesnt offer its service anymore.

I've been using the ultra-modifiable iOS app since January 2021, and I'm delighted with this wonderful alternative privacy-friendly (configurable) browser

Website: http://www.icab-mobile.de/
App: https://apps.apple.com/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id308111628

Vivaldi browser has an UUID, that's a Unique User ID.

It does install per a Unique User ID

See: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/11413/privacy-does-v-create-unique-installation-id-for-google-other-privacy-mods-of-srware-s-iron

IVPN - they even ran an article saying don't use a VPN, pretty good company.
Azire - all the desired features of a privacy-respecting VPN, only problem is that they haven't been audited.

https://matador.cloud/ is invalid at the moment