A Brief Privacy Guide
categories⌗
- casual: convenient option for casual usage
- secret: for a more intense threat model, for example, if you are a blogger in Florida
- avoid: something recommended by other privacy guides that I would avoid
web browser⌗
brave is a browser with its own cryptocurrency, if you love the indie web, and want to keep it free, say no to web3
operating system⌗
- casual: nixos, any linux distro
- secret: tails
see also: paranoid nixos, remote LUKS unlocking for nixos over ssh and Tor and keep an eye out for Spectrum OS, an OS that will combine qubes-like virtualization with nixos’ ability to generate minimal VMs
search engine⌗
- casual: duckduckgo
- secret: duckduckgo onion (tor link)
- avoid: searx and other meta search engines
meta search engines just proxy searches to duckduckgo or google, what’s the point?
messaging⌗
- casual: matrix
- secret: no recommendation
- avoid: signal
signal is not on f-droid and they have some pretty lame excuses for not allowing builds of their app to be distributed outside of their own pre-compiled binaries
filesharing⌗
- casual: nextcloud, magic wormhole
- secret: onionshare
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