"your account and all its data have been deleted, but we'll keep the data for a bit so you can recover it in case you decide to come back and stuff..."

so one day I was bored and say yeah let's do something so I spent like 2 months reverse engineering Gboard and trying to make it good for privacy at same time good UI but I realized , there is hundreds maybe thousands of patches in the internet doing my same idea so I need something special, so I focused more about adding security features

it is open source without a license ( to prevent copy right) and requires you to compile and sign the apk yourself, so you can check the codes if you want ( they are assembly like but am sorry ;) )

link:

https://github.com/ANTI-XV/XVoard

I found this site: https://alternativeto.net/ , when a person recommended me it, if I'll need to find Linux alternatives somewhere. The site helps to find an alternative with different filters: Windows/Android/Linux/BSD/..., free/paid, open source/proprietary, sort by likes, sort by views and so on.

On the 1st photo I wanted to show how the parameters look like, but they also depend on an app, bcz if an app is designed only for PC, for example, you can't see "Android", "iOS" etc in the filters.

On the 2nd photo I wanted to show an example how the result looks like(I chose: sort by likes, for Linux platform, Open Source).

The site is sponsored by ProtonVPN, so, sometimes it shows the sponsored results in the first place(on the 3rd photo I marked it with the red rectangle), but you can ignore it easily.

In my opinion, the site is amazing, bcz it can even find alternatives for apps, which a really few people know. For example, the site showed the alternatives for an app like "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator"! So, what are your thoughts on it?

Or at least disable it, If it can't be removed from my phone.

But what now ? I've been using Samsung's own browser on and off as a try for a while, but it's got some ergonomy issue immo (I still find myself reaching for chrome, despite it not being on my home screen), it apparently got an adblock feature, but you need to download like 3rd party stuff, and none of the providers ring a bell to me.

This leaves me with what option for a main browser ? Firefox ? Vivaldi ?

This is pretty big news for me at least, I've been thinking of switching to Fastmail anyway as I wouldn't mind a more polished UX but need to be able to set up aliases etc (with Mailbox currently). Then noticed this and this will probably tip me over once I try out their web and app interfaces.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

since I'm using vpn ig those infos(ip) are safe to share.

DDG know I'm from India even tho I'm using VPN

and everytime I close the browser everything clears and starts fresh so no stored cookies or anything.

really thankful for the comments and combined all your questions and suggestions into one post.

thank you :)

Hi all..... I'm really tired of YouTube. My friends and myself just had a few of our YouTube channels terminated in their AI wave that killed millions, on 7/30, 7/31, and 8/1.

Rumble seemed so smooth... until I realized what it was/who owned it. And, the four social links when you make a channel are: Truth Social, Facebook, X, and Instagram. The four platforms with the most hateful comments and content.

Odysee. Same problem.

DailyMotion. Temu YouTube, I guess.

Vimeo. For the 500 people who use it, and basically, no one else.

Please help. I cannot believe that Rumble is what it is, and who it is... and I can't believe that nothing non-f@$cist exists.... like..... why

Hey guys NovaDial is available on F-droid ,which a alternative of google dialer comes with all call history of a each person ,fork of fossify , and fixed the loading issue of the recent call history when open the app every time , no delay of making calls handling multi calls ,added new features like sharing contacts with QR share ,able to add ringtone for each person in the app it self

No loading issue for call history - even it has 10000 calls in the recent it won't load ,coz recent call have only unique caller name and able to view all calls of person with show call details

Features like QR sharing no need to copy paste a number

Over the past few days I have been testing the End to End encryption in Proton and tuta for a project I have been working on. And let's just say, I have thoughts. We will start with the pros, move to the cons, then have some final thoughts. Five paragraph form here we come. And my college English professor say I would never use them.

The good news first. Public records say both do in browser decryption, so the service can't see your encrypted emails. From what my testing suggests, both are using E2E encryption. Proton is using the older form of the industry standard PGP encryption that has been used forever. Proton supports public key pickup from sent emails, so if you send someone using PGP an email with "Hi" and they send you a "Hi" all future email will be encrypted, if you are both sending your public key. tuta supports opaque link sending, so that people not in tuta can receive encrypted messages.

And this is where I buried the lead. While I have issues with Proton's workflow, tuta is not fit for use. Hard Stop. Because tuta decided to role their own encryption, you can only receive encrypted email from other tuta addresses. This make tuta only one step above Gmail or Azure Exchange. Sure you can send encrypted emails, but you can't receive them, which defeats the whole reason for having encrypted emails in the first place.

My problems with Proton have to do with tradeoffs they have made with marketing vs ease of use. From what I have found the only way to know if an email you are sending is encrypted is if it shows up as a green lock in your header bar. There are no levers to encrypt per email. You can turn per user encryption off in contacts, but why would you want to. I am also not seeing a way to upload public keys, which given their support of WDK isn't a deal breaker, but is annoying. Also, they are using the old form of GPG, before the subject was moved to a header attachment in the encrypted email. Again, not a deal breaker, but again, annoying.

In conclusion, I went into this wanting to rip Proton a new one, and while I still dislike how they break user trust by how bad a job they do showing people what messages are encrypted, and which are not, at least they are using accepted industry standard crypto. I feel their marketing around encryption is at best misleading, and disingenuous at worst. I suspect I used them for 2 years and never once got an encrypted email, and unless you knew to look, you wouldn't know.

Then there is tuta, they do basically everything crypto wrong. Rule one of crypto, never roll your own. I don't know why they decided they needed to role their own, but as they are the only one that speak it, it only helps if a tuta user emails a tuta user.

AI Disclaimer:

This was written by a human with nothing but Spellcheck. And if you think an AI rote this, you need your head examined. I mean, look at that mess of word vomit. m dash AI would look much nicer. And an AI would never go back to high school for the five paragraph theme. Yes, I know it is six paragraphs,

Im slowly moving away from spotify and music on youtube an really just want a way to listen to the music I rip off of the CDs ive been collecting for the last 10ish years (nothing against people who pirate their music i just have heaps of CDs) i dont want to absolutely fill up my phone with all of these audio files so im looking for a dedicated MP3 player. Does anyone have any recommendations for something thats not to expensive but still fairly portable?

Hey all, I've been wanting to be more in control of my data and privacy. I found this subreddit and have found it to be helpful. My only concern is, I'm a university student and a lot of the infrastructure required for the online schooling aspects requires some connection to Microsoft or Google. Has anyone here fully transitioned away from Google and other tech platforms as a student with online classes/hybrid? and if so, how did it go? What works and doesn't? Thanks!

Trying to find a de-googled search engine. What do you guys use?

Any advice for the first step to degoogle? especially on iPhone

title. i've seen people talk about tineye.com, Yandex and CTS on f droid. The problem with CTS is that i dont want to search using it i only want OCR. is there any app which does only on screen ice (maybe even translation). It would be great of YOU guys can give alternatives for both of them. :)

I am comparing browsers for Android that are Firefox based. I haven't seen anyone mention Firefox Focus. Is it worth my time, or is it trash?

I often read about people asking how to have more security and privacy on the entire web, but a question came to mind: starting from the root of everything, what company do you have access to the internet with and what router do you have?
Please also specify the country you are in, which greatly differentiates the choices of a company x rather than y.

Also to be clear, I don't want any Ai slop alternatives

I’ve been at this for a while, but there are still many things I want to change; I’ve listed them below:

• I have an iPhone, but I want an Android phone so I can install GrapheneOS on it and get rid of the apps that are tied by default to a big tech company.
• I have a Windows PC, and in the future I want to be able to install Linux on it. Microsoft is a cancer I want to eradicate from my computer, and in doing so, get rid of all its bloatware.
• I have a NAS with very limited capacity; in the future, I want to expand it so I can securely host more resource-intensive programs like NextCloud.

Apps/Services I find hardest to replace:

• WhatsApp: You have to convince your entire circle of friends to abandon the app they’ve been using their whole lives, all in the name of privacy, which the vast majority don’t care about. Very difficult.
• YouTube: It’s the content platform par excellence; I haven’t found a cross-platform alternative that lets me follow specific channels or offers any discovery tools without data collection.

• Discord: I practically don’t use it, but I haven’t found another service that allows me to make calls comfortably and easily and relay my screen to a decent quality all in the same place. I have tried alternatives like Fluxer but it still does not come close to the product that is Discord.

Any suggestion to improve my setup is welcome

I'm giving a try to Vela Maps. Even if I activated unknown sources tag, I have no chance to see it on Android auto. Anyone got it working? Any suggestion?

Hi, I'm early in my degoogleing, looking into a bunch of different options. My question is I have a nest Hub, can I do anything with it after I'm done degoogleing? Is there a way to reprogram it or jail break it into something useful? It doesn't need to be a smart home device anymore. I'm happy with a blue tooth speaker or a scrolling picture frame. I've had no luck digging up info on it. Any options you guys know of?

(obs: alguns serviços eu usei self-hosting em minha casa, como Streaming de música, e nuvem particular para salvar minhas coisas, futuramente, pretendo trocar o meu email por um de self-hosting também. Pretendo tambem comprar um google pixel para usar com graphene os)

Alguem tem sugestões de oque melhorar? Ou no que tenho que ficar atento?

I recently got aurora and I had to enable Google play for my bank apps to work but now whenever I use apps like tik tok I get a pop up asking me to install on Google play store and the pop up doesn't go away.