Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by cuu508 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 5:41 AM UTC

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by shafyy » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:27 AM UTC

Looks great. I can see that my small privay-friendly product analytics tool Fugu (https://github.com/shafy/fugu) is missing, I will make a PR =P

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by forgotmypw17 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:05 AM UTC

And in general software which respects user consent

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by kekebo » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

There's mention of the possibility to self host 1password sync, but I can only find a current survey by agilebits to determine if they should implement it. Anyone know if this is already possible or can provide more info on the status?

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by nonrandomstring » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

Nice up-to-date collection. I'm tired of finding old lists like this but filled with legacy, unmaintained programs.

> "Be careful when installing unfamiliar browser add-ons, since some can compromise your security and privacy."

I like these little interjections to explain things for beginners.

In this case though, I wonder what code auditing/verification is in place to support such a statement:

> "At the time of writing, the above list were all open source, verified and 'safe'"

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by nonrandomstring » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:15 AM UTC

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #3

And in general software which respects user consent

Good point, worth elaborating on.

That's one of the reasons I started using the word 'dignity' in place of saying 'privacy' without thinking more. In particular I've found the phrase "digital dignity" stands in more comfortably in some conversations with people who are jaded and cynical about privacy [1].

Privacy does not always equate to security nor mean that the user isn't abused in other ways (indeed many abusers leverage privacy or shame as a way to hide their abuse)

[1] https://digitalvegan.net

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by bscphil » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:54 AM UTC

One thing a little weird about this list is that it has "privacy-respecting" software mixed in with privacy tools.

DuckDuckGo doesn't track you individually, or at least, they don't filter-bubble and advertise to you individually, but they do collect data on what users click on. Privacy-respecting? I think that's debatable.

The 1.1.1.1 app is a privacy tool insofar as it allows you to hide DNS requests from anyone in the middle of your connections, but it also means sending your DNS requests (or everything, if you use the VPN) to Cloudflare. According to exodus it contains 2 tracking scripts. Is the end result "privacy-respecting"? Might depend on your opinion of Cloudflare and/or your use case.

Should I Remove it [dot] com? Has some information about potentially unwanted programs, but it's also just some proprietary source of information and contains Google Ads and tracking scripts on its pages.

And so on and so forth.

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by ricardo81 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 9:32 AM UTC

bscphil wrote: post #7

One thing a little weird about this list is that it has "privacy-respecting" software mixed in with privacy tools . DuckDuckGo doesn't track you individually, or at least, they don't filter-bubble and advertise to you individually, but they do collect data on what users click on. Privacy-respecting? I think that's debatable. The 1.1.1.1 app is a privacy tool insofar as it allows you to hide DNS requests from anyone i…

The ones listed are also meta search engines built off non-privacy respecting search engines. Would have been nice if they listed independent ones.

Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 9:33 AM UTC

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Re: Privacy-Respecting Software

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Post by nitinagg » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 9:59 AM UTC

Wondering if folks would be interested in a framework to run/deploy the self hosted items here easily on the public clouds..