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One thing a little weird about this list is that it has "privacy-respecting" software mixed in with privacy tools. DuckDuckGo doesn't track you individually, o
by bscphil 5y ago
One thing a little weird about this list is that it has "privacy-respecting" software mixed in with privacy tools.
DuckDuckGo doesn't track you individually, or at least, they don't filter-bubble and advertise to you individually, but they do collect data on what users click on. Privacy-respecting? I think that's debatable.
The 1.1.1.1 app is a privacy tool insofar as it allows you to hide DNS requests from anyone in the middle of your connections, but it also means sending your DNS requests (or everything, if you use the VPN) to Cloudflare. According to exodus it contains 2 tracking scripts. Is the end result "privacy-respecting"? Might depend on your opinion of Cloudflare and/or your use case.
Should I Remove it [dot] com? Has some information about potentially unwanted programs, but it's also just some proprietary source of information and contains Google Ads and tracking scripts on its pages.
And so on and so forth.
- ricardo81 5y agoThe ones listed are also meta search engines built off non-privacy respecting search engines. Would have been nice if they listed independent ones.
- dngray 5y agoAnother section I noticed there that is horribly wrong: > Without using a secure, privacy-centric DNS all your web requests can be seen in the clear. You should configure your DNS queries to be managed by a service that respects privacy and supports DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS or DNSCrypt. These things do very little for privacy as we painstakingly write about in this article https://www.privacyguides.org/technology/dns/ https://www.privacyguides.org/technology/dns/