infosec/privacy

• privacy guides beginner
• the new oil also beginner
• go foss foss alternatives
• hitchhiker's guide to online anonymity detailed information
• prism break recommendations
• ethical ethical alternatives
• simple opt out guides to turning off excess data sharing

• bitwarden cloud-based password manager
• exifcleaner remove exif metadata from files
• fawkes edits photos in a way that confuses facial recognition AI
• terms of service; didn't read human-readable TOS's and privacy policies
• have i been pwned data breach tracker

network

• tor .onion network
• I2P (invisible internet project) P2P network layer

• mullvad anonymous sign-up, $5/mo
• proton vpn part of a suite of useful services, prices vary, has a free option
• ivpn anonymous sign up, prices vary

operating systems

• distrowatch open-source operating system info and news
• distrochooser helps you pick an open-source operating system

• artix linux my arch-based distro of choice
• debian if stability is essential, debian is perfect
• linux mint commonly recommended to people new to linux
• fedora a well-established and popular distribution

Web Browsing

• firefox what i use constantly. highly customizable, and can be hardened depending on your security/privacy needs
• tor for anonymous browsing and accessing the tor network
• librewolf firefox fork. arkenfox.js added by default, privacy focused if you dont want to harden FF yourself
• ungoogled-chromium chromium browser de-googled completely
• mull android firefox mobile fork, hardened, and telemetry removed
• bromite android browser based on chromium, with an option to replace the default webview for android. de-googled

• ublock origin powerful but lightweight adblocker, javascript blocker, and more
• violentmonkey userscript manager
• stylus userstyle manager
• sponsorblock autoskips ad segments in youtube videos
• containers isolates cookies to specific tabs
• consent-o-matic for a configured auto-response to cookie pop-ups
• Indie Wiki Buddy auto redirects and fandom wiki's to an ad-free front end. can also show you independant wikis instead of fandom wikis
• nightTab an open-source customizable new tab/home page
• shinigami eyes highlights known trans-friendly people and pages, as well as anti-trans people

• userstyles.world created as a replacement of userstyles.org
• USO archive archive of userstyles.org
• greasyfork userscripts
• openuserjs userscripts

communication

• thunderbird email client - desktop
• k-9 mail email client - android
• protonmail email provider (has other services), free or paid
• tutanota email provider (has other services), free or paid
• startmail email provider, paid
• disroot email provider (has other services), aimed at activists, need to fill out an application for an account
• riseup email provider (has other services), aimed at activists, invite only
• autistici email provider (has other services), aimed at activists, selective
• simplelogin email aliasing, owned by the company behind protonmail
• anonaddy email aliasing

• matrix decentralized messenger protocol
• revolt discord-like
• signal requires phone number
• molly FOSS signal fork for android, requires phone number
• session doesnt require info for an account
• briar P2P messenger, uses tor network, can work without internet

• mastodon decentralized microblogging, twitter-like
• pixelfed instagram-like photo and video sharing platform
• cohost tumblr-like blogging platform

• fediverse wikipedia wiki page for the fediverse
• fedi tips in-depth guide to using mastodon and the fediverse.
• fedi db database of instances for countless services that use ActivityPub
• mastodon instances includes a wizard for helping you decide on an instance
• fedi directory people to follow.
• trunk people to follow.

productivity

• libreoffice office suite
• etherpad real-time document collaboration (akin to google docs).

• obsidian customizable notebook that uses markdown.
• turtl notebook with collaboration features.
• cryptee notetaking
• notesnook notetaking. paid only.
• joplin notetaking

• vscodium vscode, but with microsoft's telemetry removed
• sublime textcomprehensive text editor, shareware
• notepad++ lightweight text editor
• codeberg git hosting, based on forgejo, which is a fork of gitea
• privatebinzero knowledge pastebin
• rentry markdown pastebin service
• send instance of send, a temporary file hosting service, a continuation fork of mozilla's "firefox send"

frontends

• invidious (youtube) lightweight, no ads, no tracking, no javascript
• piped (youtube) lightweight, no ads, no tracking
• revanced (several) android, successor to youtube vanced, however they offer patches for many different programs
• nitter (twitter) lightweight, no ads, no tracking, no javascript
• fritter (twitter) foss twitter client on android
• libreddit (reddit) looks like the reddit redesign, no ads, no tracking, no javascript
• teddit (reddit) looks like old.reddit, no ads, no tracking, no javascript
• infinity (reddit) foss reddit client on android
• lingva translate (google translate) foss frontend for google translate
• libremdb (imdb) lightweight, no ads, subjectively better interface
• wikiless (wikipedia) no javascript or ads, some instances are currently broken however