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Never rely on any cloud service! A good cloud based password manager is end to end encrypted meaning the password manager provider cannot access your passwords and they are secured from the provider and any compromise of the provider. But you do not only need confidentiality but also reliability. The cloud is just someone else's...

Kickstarting this community; let's discuss our favorite apps on Android & iOS.

Hello everyone....

This is very troubling, and I’m not even sure where to start. I recently received an email message from my ISP which alerted me to an incoming update. I didn’t worry too much since this is obviously not the first update they’ve ever pushed through....

In the last week:...

Libretube and some Piped frontends are currently down as Google is reportedly “rate limiting” (aka IP banning) these instances according to the Piped Matrix group. A workaround is being implemented, but if you are on Android and are in desperate need of Youtube audio during work like me Newpipe is still running.

I use material files but i don’t know if it is still maintained? Last update is from may 2022. Any newer recommendations?...

I've switched to Firefox, proton mail and calendar, but what about google docs and drive? ty guys

Hello! I’m in the process of slowly de-googling my life and taking my privacy more seriously....

Lemmy vs kbin witch one should in chose terms of privacy and content amount

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What would be a good alternative to Imgur?

I'm using KeePass currently, since I don't really want to use anything publicly hosted. But I was curious to see what other people have been using!

I can see far too many privacy issues with copy and pasting text into a website, and/or registering an account which will keep a history of the text checked....

I have a google pixel, and I know I could install grapheneOS on it. But I’m very, very hesitant, since I depend so much on my phone....

Hi everyone, I’m In the need of an offline calendar and gallery now that simplemobiletools got sold off. I’m wondering what you guys use? My bad if the formatting is weird on this post, I’m trying out a new lemmy client...

edit: Thanks for all the recommendations!

I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me....

I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...

What would i lose or gain?

Where I live, Google Maps is the only mapping option....

Unfortunately, most people I know use WhatsApp for personal communications, as a result, I’ve had to start using it too. However, I’m unsure which is more privacy-oriented for desktop use: WhatsApp Web in a browser or the native application.

Hi all, through my experience, the third party apps that are supposed to do this a pure trash. I mean true caller was pretty decent, but it was packed with ads and trackers of course and the overbearing permissions that constantly tries hijacking my set SMS and dialer apps… I don’t think using a third party app is the right...

I was not aware of this until today. People use work profiles on Android to isolate their more privacy invasive apps. If you want those apps to be tunnelled through a VPN, you would have to install the VPN application you use on your work profile separately and turn it on separately in your work profile.