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,
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Don’t agree with a lot of them. Like choosing Brave. Please do a critical search on it.
And the most private mail, is either a self host, or a mail hotel… And then something like Thunderbird. You can host your own calendar there too… Because Fossify Calendar don’t host your calendars.
Don’t use AI…
And Arch is certainly not for everyone. Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu and the likes are a lot better.
Firefox has a great Password manager, if you are one of the poor sods, who can’t remember all your unique passwords. ;-)
Signal is Trump/fascism supporters… Shouldn’t use that either…
every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?
Seriously. People need to stop suggesting Brave.
I lowkey think it’s viral marketing.
A lot of programs and services I use are not present so I did not include those alternatives.
Of those I included, I use only a few, too. These are sane alternatives for the common user.I have not once seen a picture like this, and “guide” ones, that doesn’t have several glaring issues.
This one started really good, then brave pops up, then proton, then AI…Why is it so fucking hard to look up the stuff you’re using? How are you aware of several of these that are not well known yet somehow not aware of how bad brave is? It’s just so weird every single time.
What’s wrong with proton? I’ve heard it tries to misslead people indirectly into making them think proton is non for profit but I believe the services themselves are fine.
Brave is fine.
For the record it’s not. It’s a chrome variant with a crypto bro ad company skin on top.
Just to throw it out there self hosting docker containers you could use your local PC but I started out with 30 dollar 1 litre PCs. I had three 1 hosted my firewall and the other 2 dockers. I had most everything I could need.
Just curious for the firewall one, did it have two built in NICs or were you using a USB dongle? If two NICs, what model?
If you use a Chromium Browser there is Vivaldi, instead of GDrive, Filen is good, but kDrive or Murena fit it better (both including online Office and workspace, EU), for YT there is also Aluga, AI > Andisearch, Sketchapedia, WhatsApp > SecureBit Chat, Google Photos > vgy.me
Vivaldi has essentially no fingerprinting protection, and it also inserts affiliate links by default without your constent.
Adding to the list of people warning you away from Brave. It’s a complete scam. Practically malware at this point.
every privacypack image has brave on it. is this some kind of rule?
Every time a “privacy” list shows brave, i instantly ignore the rest of it because i know they arent serious.
This, I cringe when Brave and privacy end up in the same sentence. They’re shady af
Should you change your DNS if you have your VPN on?
yes and no, ideally vpn also handles DNS querries but sometimes with faulty implementations DNS can leak. mullvad has a test in their website but only works for mullvad vpn.
i was using this site for testing, does the job
Would a faulty implementation be only if you did it manually? In other words, if I just go through the motions of turning on the VPN, theoretically there should be no leak right?
Get brave off that list.
Another good gmail alternative is kmail. Another good WhatsApp alternative is matrix. Change organic maps to comaps, it is fork of it but community focused. Another google photos alternative is aves, much better than fossify gallery. When using obtanium, you might want to install appverifier to check if app is legit. Another YouTube alternatives are peertube and odysee. Brave is bad, its CEO likes crypto and ai. Mullvad vpn is good vpn, you can also use tor. Instead of google wallet you can use curve wallet or upcoming Walt. Also, good alternative to google search is 4get
Fairmail
Fairmail is bad, Thunderbird is much better
Don’t use brave. Brave is a cult at this point.
I wish Nobara Linux would move off it. Every third or forth update, the Brave repo I disabled is re-enabled. Not a huge deal, but I’d rather see the Librewolf repo instead.
You can raise the issue to the developers but from what I see, they don’t have a public page for bug reporting so who knows how many issues actually exist within the distro.
Given that Nobara is just a fork of Fedora, and I assume you’ve gained a little CLi experience, why not just switch to Fedora?
I switched to Nobara last spring from MX Linux (Debian) when my brand new GPU needed brand new mesa driver, but MX said it was months away from being added to the stable channel. Nobara is (or was, Dev has slowed down) bleeding edge for most things. I no longer need that, but I like it okay, and my setup… Look, I’m just Lazy when it comes to setting up all my games and apps I have installed all over again…
Hage you tried MX’s AHS ISO?
I was running AHS at the time. I asked in the support forum about my GPU and they warned me against forcibly upgrading Mesa. They told me it would be months before they got to the required version (
25.3?25.0.2), so I started distro shopping.ETA: link to my post in MX support forum, fixed Mesa version
Did testing or deb-backports have a working version?
I think they mentioned that the (then) upcoming Trixie was running 25.0.1, but Phoronix listed the next version (25.0.2) as the first viable version. Either way, I figured if I was going to risk hosing my machine, I might as well just take a decent backup and try some of the distros I had been eyeballing.
Why not switch Linux distros then?
I bet one of the maintainers is a cult member (or is being paid to re add it) either way eww.
IIRC, the sole Nobara Linux maintainer is GloriousEggroll, AKA, the creator of GE-Proton that is the go-to for some windows-on-linux gamers.
I wonder why they are weirdly pushing Brave then huh.
I have an older comment regarding GE supporting AI use by Lutris dev & using AI for Nobara’s wallpapers. I also felt like Nobara wasn’t too stable. GE has done a lotta work for that hobby project, but I’ve switched to CachyOS since & it’s been a much smoother experience.
Its been stable for me except for one update which broke basic privilege escalation prompts. I forget why as I struggle to sleep. I have been messing to try cachy next though
Does Tuta sponsor one of these privacy roundups every month or something?
Tuta is the best option for encrypted email I’ve seen so far. I used to think proton mail was good, but the ceo supporters maga and they are funding french far right YouTubers. Their reddit subs are also actively trying to censor that fact.
That’s twisting the facts
the issue is the inability to use imap and smtp - i use mailbox.org instead
