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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Researching Privacy Tools! (meowrr.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all. New to this community, but I'm constantly researching new privacy tools to try out and review. Besides Tor, I2P, and Freenet, are there others that you might recommend? I have heard that Signal's privacy is iffy lately.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

I recommend Syncthing instead of cloud services. You never really notice how much stuff is "in the cloud" but storing it all and relying on it all there is taking a big leap in trust for the service you use.

Alternatively, self-hosted NextCloud/related service might also work but involves a bit more setup. Pros of that is that there isn't duplication of files stored on mutiple devices; ie. it works more like you would expect