What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?
What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?
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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SearXNG.
It's like having a search engine customised to my needs.
Automatically filters out SEO junk sites, and redirects links automatically (e.g. reddit.com -> old.reddit.com)
10 0 ReplySearXNG
Gosh, I love SearXNG, and how you can fit it to work into your workflow!
5 0 ReplyWait... How do you make SearXNG redirect to old.reddit?
5 0 ReplyChange your
settings.yml
to have thisenabled_plugins: - 'Hostname replace' # see hostname_replace configuration below
And then define the rules like this:
hostname_replace: # My redirects '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com' # My filters 'slant\.co': false 'dailymail\.co\.uk': false
5 0 ReplyAwesome! Thank you
5 0 ReplyYou're welcome. :)
4 0 Reply
Wow this feature alone makes me want to try using it
2 0 ReplyIt runs inside a docker container, so you could even have it locally (if you don't want to host it on a VPS).
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