Post some of your favourite software/service/alternatives. For example, I’ve started using Red Reader now that Reddit requires me to be signed in in order to display entire threads.

Also, I got youtube-dl working on termux, an android app, via ‘pkg install python’ and then ‘pip install youtube-dl’.

What are your favourites and recent discoveries? Even if you think people have already heard of it, there’s a possibility they haven’t.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png

  • @darth_tiktaalik
    2•5 years ago

    Android/replicant software:

    G-droid in place of Google play store: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.gdroid.gdroid/

    Although it only supports the f-droid app repository I like the UI more compared to the official f-droid app and feel the ability to leave short reviews make it a more suitable replacement for the play store

    Fennec f-droid in place of chrome. It’s a deblobbed Firefox that is closer to the current upstream and has add on support.

    Suggestions for adds ons: https everywhere, which ensures that a secure connection is used on sites where one is known to exist. Link: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/

    Ublock origin, in addition to blocking known trackers, malware sites and ads you can have JavaScript only enabled on a per site basis or block large media by default ect.(you can adjust what size is considered large if you wish). Link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

    • @darth_tiktaalik
      2•5 years ago

      Android file management/zip (de)compression: simple file manager pro for it’s stability. Amaze file manager can extract tar(.gz) files and some rar as well as do file encryption but I find SFM to be more stable.

      Fedilab is a great multi account fediverse client for android that works best with mastodon but can also be used for stuff like peertube and pixelfed.

    • @LofenyyOPM
      2•5 years ago

      I like your suggestions.

      Along with what you suggest, I also use Privacy Badger, written by the same people who wrote HTTPS Everywhere as well as uMatrix, written by the guy who made uBlock.

      uMatrix is difficult to configure and not for everyone, but It’s great for generally disabling JS on some sites, while making very very specific exceptions for others. It leaves you with usable websites on websites that you can’t go without, while crippling them just enough so you can hope that their trackers don’t work.

      I also use Snowflake, made by the Tor project and redirector, which I use to redirect youtube links to Invidious.