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- Added spaces missing before "("
- Added warning not to use Tor for torrents
- Added recommendation to use onion services as much as possible instead of clearnet
- Added more recommendations for "favorite apps and services"
- Removed extra spaces in parenthesis (like "( Sample )")
- Fix typo that Nokia "fell from 98th place to 5th place", used the citation from the English Wikipedia article of Nokia
- Used the official capitalizations of software, corporations, websites, etc.
- Capitalized "american", "russian", etc. Fixed "Peoples" to "People's" (regarding the official name of China)
- "TOR" --> "Tor", "vpn" --> "VPN"
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Favorite apps and services
Goals
- Privacy conscious, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE).
- Decentralized, no reliance on cloud providers like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Spotify, Netflix, etc.
- Self-hosted and self-reliant, simple files preferred.
- Make sure no sites / services are US based.
Media
- Download all music / movies locally, using torrents behind a VPN. (Don't use Tor for torrenting, it won't work and will just put unnecessary load to the Tor network)
- Use AirVPN, Mullvad, NordVPN, ProtonVPN
- Use qbittorrent, deluge, or transmission for a torrent client.
- Use MPV or VLC, open source media players to play media.
- Use emby for streaming to other devices.
Documents
- Write all documents and notes in markdown.
- Spreadsheets in Libreoffice.
- Install Syncthing, and put all your documents in a synced folder.
Tasks
- Use a todo.txt file for a personal task list, synced with syncthing.
- QTodoTxt as a desktop client, Simpletask Cloudless for Android.
- For shared task lists, use Etherpad.
Collaboration
- Use Etherpad.
Browsing
- Use Firefox or Tor Browser, with the addons:
- uBlock Origin
- HTTPS Everywhere
- Privacy Badger
- Facebook Container - As suggested, this keeps all Facebook stuff in it's own Firefox container.
- Google Container - The above, but for Google.
- Startpage, Searx (onion service), or DuckDuckGo (onion service) as a search engine
- If using Tor, use onion services if possible instead of clearnet.
Passwords
- Use KeePassXC.
- Install the Firefox KeePassXC plugin.
- Use a long master pass phrase, with at least 10 words.
- Sync your password file everywhere you need using syncthing.
Chat
- Use Signal or Matrix / Riot.
- Use Thunderbird for email, e2ee with pgp if possible.
Social Media
- Mastodon, GNU Social, or diaspora*
Operating system
- Use Linux, preferably Arch Linux or a variant.