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9 guides tagged #privacy.
Ad blockers are usually compared on how much they block. The more useful split is where they sit: inside one browser, in front of every app, or in the DNS layer. Each catches things the others cannot.
11 min read · 7 apps covered · both
Running a VPN network costs real money every month. There are only three honest answers to who pays for a free one, and which answer an app gives you is the only thing worth ranking on.
9 min read · 7 apps covered · android
Almost every browser now advertises privacy. The only question that separates them is what a fresh install blocks before you change a single setting, and whether the company behind it makes money from ads.
8 min read · 6 apps covered · windows
The three tools worth installing first are all open source and all free: a password vault whose file you own, full disk encryption, and a cleaner that deletes what Windows quietly keeps. The other five are more conditional.
9 min read · 8 apps covered · windows
One of these has a free tier that is genuinely usable and publishes its source code. The other has a larger network and charges for all of it. That is most of the decision.
6 min read · 2 apps covered · android
Most offline-player lists quietly include streaming apps with a download button. These ten play files you already own — ordered by the two things that actually separate them: whether they need the network at all, and whose audio engine is doing the work.
12 min read · 10 apps covered · android
Twelve of these nineteen are open source, which is the whole point. A tool that reads your files, filters your traffic or holds your passwords is exactly the kind of software where being able to read the source matters.
16 min read · 19 apps covered · android
Most privacy lists are a VPN advert with nine apps arranged around it. This one is ordered by leverage: what stops the most data for the least disruption, and what the VPN genuinely does and does not do.
8 min read · 10 apps covered · android
Fossify is what happened after Simple Mobile Tools was sold. Twelve small, ad-free, open-source apps that between them cover most of what you open in a day.
8 min read · 12 apps covered · android