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ren Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota Thanks for the list, but where is XMPP?

jm1982 Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota
Out of interest. Which Linux do you use?

jesusrosdiaz Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota good list. Is Qwant considered free?

tekhne Jul 20, 2025

@jesusrosdiaz @Tutanota pffff !

Let's check sources ❤️❤️❤️Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/114886852583812976
Making great strides in my privacy journey! 🚀 I've switched one of my two laptops to Linux (easier than expected, the other will follow after I am off OneNote), using Tuta Mail (the best 😉) , Signal, and just bought a new laptop from Tuxedo. Plus, Qwant is now my go-to search engine — easiest switch ever! 🎉

Check out my full list here: https://mastodon.social/@TheStefan/114259071639384095

Let's all move towards more privacy and away from USA software! 💪 #PrivacyMatters #OpenSource

@TheStefan Well done!

Michał Narecki Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota @delta see this guys? 🤩 #deltachat

TiTiNoNero

Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota
KeepassX development stopped in 2021.
KeepassXC is the active branch.

Sandwich Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota
Great summary! Also Matrix + Element Call could be interesting for people wanting to have an alternative to discord with E2EE and decentralization.

RFlorez Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota Add KeePassXC.

William B Peckham Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota is "Signal " better than "SimpleX"?

@wbpeckham @Tutanota I don't have the sources anymore, but SimpleX is developed by a trump supporting conspiracy believing anti-vax covid denier. I wouldn't trust it. I used to recommend it until all that stuff came out.

@wbpeckham @Tutanota SimpleX has horrible usability everytime I've tried it. Message delays, people not being able to join GCs and lag is what I can report from it. I personally use Session but Signal is a much better option than SimpleX. SimpleX is interesting but most people who shill it haven't had to actually use it for everyday use because they would see the problems it has

oxidand Jul 20, 2025

There is also Mail, Calendar, Password Manager and even a Drive that was already released from Proton. You can add it to your privacy list too ;)

Cameron Bosch Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota I think you meant KeePassXC. You might want to change that.

Also, Mozilla Firefox isn't a good option. Use Ungoogled Chromium or if you have to use Firefox, use Librewolf or preferably Floorp.

Next, DuckDuckGo has been a bit shady recently. You might want to keep an eye on that.

Finally Bitwarden might also be suspicious, but I'm not 100% sure of the whole deal on that one yet.

@cameron_bosch Thanks for your feedback

divarre Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota please support aarch64 / arm64 on Linux whenever you can 🙇 https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/1891 | https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/2471

[desktop] offer an ARM target · Issue #1891 · tutao/tutanota

Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices. - [desktop] offer an ARM target · Issue #1891 · tutao/tutanota

GitHub

@dec31 Thanks for your feedback, will pass it on!

KevinM1 ♿🎮💻Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota I would say:

Browser -
Librewolf
Mullvad

Search -
Mullvad Leta

Dr. What Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota Firefox is spyware. Why do you keep listing it as "secure" when Mozilla clearly announces that they will use every piece of data they get from Firefox?

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota fuck signal, it’s phone-tied

@liilliil @Tutanota its a text/sms replacement, of course it requires a phone.

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧Jul 21, 2025

@Cappyjax @Tutanota Tying a messenger to a phone number is a completely flawed and stupid concept

@liilliil @Tutanota Given Signal's inception as an encrypted SMS/MMS overlay— originally named Text secure— it makes perfect sense. Remember, this was before everyone was chronically online and data was not as ubiquitous. The phone number now primarily functions as a barrier to entry for spammers.

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧Jul 21, 2025

@Cappyjax @Tutanota i had ICQ since 1997, text secure appeared in 2010

@liilliil @Tutanota cool!

Pixel Dunn Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota until you fix your mail enough TO BE USABLE i will use @protonprivacy , sorry…

Pau Cabrera Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota is ecosia private?

Franky_Tegeler :friendica:Jul 21, 2025

@cch
#Ecosia comes from Berlin, Germany, and is a non-profit organization.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia

Ecosia - Wikipedia

Pau Cabrera Jul 24, 2025

@franky @Tutanota

I do know it’s a NGO, my concern was privacy.

Franky_Tegeler :friendica:Jul 24, 2025

@cch
Ecosia does not share any data. The data is deleted after the search.

Leeloo Jul 20, 2025

@Tutanota
According to Wikipedia, Signal still requires handing over your phone number.

Jasper Jul 22, 2025

@leeloo @Tutanota pretty sure they introduced a way to use a nickname without phone number. But I'm personally happy with how I use it that it's tied to a phone number so never looked into that.

gekko3k Jul 20, 2025

mhh, a list of standard programs. K.
Linux is great as long as you don't need professional software tools.

gregorio reyes Jul 21, 2025

@Tutanota any vpn you recommend?

@goyoreyes @Tutanota Mullvad VPN is typically considered the best on the market

Kaito Jul 21, 2025

@Tutanota You forgot Brave. Finally. Yay!

@kaito02 @Tutanota That moment when you use Brave and you become a crypto cashcow for the owners

anorax

@Tutanota
You still promote Firefox.
Why not list Zen Browser or Floorp instead?

@l_inadapte Good point!

anorax

@Tutanota
I wish I loved Firefox all my life but it's dead. Firefox no longer has any ethics.

Jasper Jul 22, 2025

@l_inadapte @Tutanota was looking for a comment like this. I'm currently running Librewolf and quite like it. Also gave Vivaldi a shot because at least it's European. It's good too but none of the fancier features are truly needed for me. But as a former web developer I'll always have multiple browsers installed just to check if a "broken" page might work in one of the others 😅

anorax

Jul 22, 2025

@b0rn_dead
I think you made the best choice with Librewolf in therms of ethics and privacy.
Vivaldi became my main browser 'cause it is highly customizable and devs really listen to users (unlike Firefox).
My second browser is Zen.

Heals

@Tutanota - can we please not just use “Linux Based OS”?

Because that is anything but a guarantee for your online privacy these days.

@heals What would you recommend?

Heals

@Tutanota not sure I can recommend any mainstream OS with internet access at all at this point in time if you’re concerned about your data privacy.

@gatorMator pretty much that ^

/cc @Tutanota

Dmitry Bartoshevich Jul 21, 2025

@Tutanota Privacy isn't binary. Linux isn't automatically private. Firefox needs hardening. Chromium > Firefox for sandboxing.

"Free tools for privacy" without context can be misleading marketing. Expected more nuance from a security-focused company.

coso Aug 7, 2025

@bartoshevich @Tutanota it's important to support gecko (the firefox engine) especially to prevent google's monopoly because most browsers use chromium (brave, chrome, edge...) and then usually the browsers based on gecko are the best in terms of privacy and anti-tracking technologies look at librewolf or tor or even mullvad browser