Sunday, May 4, 2025

Anyone up for some PRIVACY? - Check out these amazing sites, apps, browsers, VPNs, and more!!

Does anyone out there value their privacy? And also what sites did we forget?

Search Engines:
Duck Duck Go Over 55 Billion anonymous searches - DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
Lukol
Gibiru
Startpage - gives every page a privacy rating plus lets you search without trackers!

  • Secure Browsers:
  • Brave.com Brave stops online surveillance, loads content faster, and uses 35% less battery.
    Tor Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.
    Duck Duck Go Browser - For WindowsFor iOS, For Mac.

  • Instant Messaging:
  • Signal
    Telegram

  • Social Media:
  • GETTR A brand new social media platform founded on the principles of free speech, independent thought and rejecting political censorship and “cancel culture.”

  • Secure Email:
  • Proton Email - No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.

    Videos:
    Rumble - you'll like Rumble!  Check them out!!

    Artificial Intelligence - AI

    Free VPN:

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    2 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    I also like Startmail and Startpage. - Steve

    Anonymous said...

    One interesting privacy hack is that if you encypt your drive, you can have up to something like eight passwords for bootup. The default setup is to have one password that unencrypts the drive. However, it is fairly easy to add another password or two and attach it to a script that will perform some action on bootup. In particular, for instance, you can have a nuke option that will delete the encryption header from the disk, which makes it both unreadable and unrecoverable. This is useful, for instance, if you are crossing a border and are forced to provide a password. Entering the password doorstops the machine. Or, you can have multiple partitions and the alternate password will make the second partition unreadable, or delete files or folders (understanding that files and folders are never completely deleted, particularly with SSD drives). It takes a little effort, but it's a nice privacy hack. ChatGPT, of all places, will provide you with a tutorial if you ask for it. Be sure to give it your distribution. For instance, I use Kubuntu, and the encrypted device (a so-called LUKS device) does not have an obvious name. However, ChatGPT told me what it was.