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What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it all. I'll go first:

I don't really have any on my computer (all I use that for is Vim, Firefox, and Git), but on my phone: Orbot (basically Tor as a VPN on your phone).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Resilio Sync instead of something like Dropbox or Google Drive.

Fastmail is pretty solid too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Resilio Sync

How does it compare to something like Syncthing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never used syncthing so I'm not sure. Resilio is running a modified bittorrent protocol. It's always been fast and easy for me so I've never had the motivation to look into anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What's the difference between Orbit and Tor Browser? I always wondered why people download Orbot instead of Tor Browser?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Orbit acts as a VPN and effects the entire system, so all of your apps get routed through ToR.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use a lot of paid survey apps I've made a nice bit of money on (as tedious as it is). Qmee, Attapoll, Survey Spin and Leger opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Working an hour at McDonald's will make more then like a days worth of doing those lol. Do something more productive like grind levels in an MMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have two jobs. This is something I can do to make mad money for myself and I've made 3500 dollars this far. I don't know what na an MMO is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could probably do these surveys while working some jobs that pay more than McDonald's.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All the ones I used have been said except cryptomator. Its an encryption software that can be used in cloud storage or locally

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It costs so much to use on a phone! It is free for all PC OSs though

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