Best Android Browsers:

🌎 Tor Browser (Firefox based)

- F-Droid repo: https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser
✅ Fingerprinting mitigations
💭 Discussion group: See Tor browser chat in @qd_invitations
Unofficial Channel: @tor_browser_channel

Source code: https://github.com/guardianproject/tor-android


🌎 Bromite (Chromium based)

- F-droid repo: https://www.bromite.org/fdroid
✅ Ads and trackers blocking
✅ Privacy enhacement patches from Iridium, Inox, Brave, ungoogled chromium and Security enhacement patches from GrapheneOS
💭 Discussion group: See Bromite chat in @qd_invitations
Unofficial Channel: @bromite_channel

Source: https://github.com/bromite/bromite
Project website: Bromite.org

Bromite is highly recommended

🌎 Brave (Chromium based)

- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser

✅ Ads and trackers blocking
✅ Privacy enhancements

Source:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser


🌎 Mull (Firefox based)

F-Droid repo:
https://divestos.org/fdroid/official/?fingerprint=E4BE8D6ABFA4D9D4FEEF03CDDA7FF62A73FD64B75566F6DD4E5E577550BE8467

✅ Features from Tor uplift project
✅ hardened with arkenfox-user.js project
✅ Proprietary components are removed.

Source code : https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix


🌎 Fennec F-Droid (Firefox based)

Fdroid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
✅ Extension support
✅ proprietary components and trackers removed


🌎 Mozilla Firefox
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox
❌ Trackers (Mozilla telemetry, adjust, firebase analytics)
✅ Extension support

Source code: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix


🌎 Firefox Nightly
- Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix
✅ Extension support
❌ Trackers (Mozilla telemetry, adjust, firebase analytics)


🌎 Kiwi (Chromium based)

Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
⛔️ Outdated chromium base
✅ Extension support
✅ Ads and trackers blocking

Source code: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

Not at all recommended for its outdated chromium base



P.S. You may want to consider this when choosing your browser
— Chromium is way more secure than Firefox
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#browser #android #androidbrowsers

Nitter

A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
Inspired by the invidio.us project.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/README.md

💻 Browser Extensions
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions

🌍 Instances
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

📱 NitterizeMe app for android
Once set by default to open Twitter and YouTube links will transform them into Nitter and Invidious links and delegate the action to another app.
https://f-droid.org/app/app.fedilab.nitterizeme


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#nitter #twitter

Bibliogram is a website that takes data from #Instagram's public profile views and puts it into a friendlier page that loads faster, gives downloadable images, eliminates ads, generates RSS feeds, and doesn't urge you to sign up.

https://bibliogram.snopyta.org

https://bibliogram.art

https://github.com/cloudrac3r/bibliogram/blob/master/README.md

Bibliogram does not allow you to anonymously post, like, comment, follow, or view private profiles. It does not preserve deleted posts.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#bibliogram #instagram

MiXplorer

mix of explorers (SD, FTP, Lan, Cloud and other storage explorers) is a fast, smooth, beautiful, reliable and fully-featured file manager with a simple and intuitive user interface.
This app is closed source but it has no ads, is and will always remain completely free.

Note:
XDA version has all features.
In Google's Playstore there's a paid version and a free version with less features called Silver.
Better donate directly to its devs to avoid Google's 30% cut.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691

APK UPDATES (from XDA) & CHANGELOG
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MiXplorer_updates

ADD-ONs:

MiX Archive (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.archive

MiX Metadata (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.metadata

MiX Codecs (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.codecs

MiX PDF (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.pdf

MiX Image (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.image

MiX SMB 2.0/2.1 (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.smb

MiX Tagger - Tag Editor (MiXplorer Addon)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.addon.tagger


📡 @Libreware
#mixplorer #mxp #filemanager

Nekogram

An unofficial telegram app

https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram

Google play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.nekomimi.nekogram

Update news (English): https://news.1rj.ru/str/nekoupdates

Update news (Chinese): https://news.1rj.ru/str/zuragram

APKs: https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/releases

Feedback: https://news.1rj.ru/str/nekosupportbot

Feedback: https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/issues

Chat group (Chinese & English): Join our channel (https://news.1rj.ru/str/Zuragram) and click "Chat"

⚠️ Warning: App has trackers


Nekogram adds some extra features to official Telegram app:

• Repeat others' message in one click.
• Save to saved messages in one click.
• Ignore messages from blocked users.
• Forward messages without quoting.
• Create a mention by user's ID.
• Allow non-admin users to view group chat permissions and administrators.
• Select a map preview provider for normal dialogs.
• Promote/restrict user directly from contextual menu clicking on user's message.
• Show user chat history in groups from contextual menu clicking on user's message.
• Delete single downloaded file.
• Customize stickers display size.
• Show and export message details.
• Unlimited favorite stickers.
• Filter chats list: users, groups, channels, bots, admin, unmuted.
• Multi-accounts (up to 32).
• Log in with bot accounts.
• Decide whether to sync contacts on first login.
• Show ID and data center.
• Transparent status bar.
• Change displaying name order.
• Hide mobile number from navigation menu drawer and settings menu.
• Built-in Chinese and Japanese language.
• Use system font and emojis.
• Store cache into app's private directory.
• Hide proxy sponsor channels.
• Toogle to show sensitive media contents in public channels.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#nekogram #tg #telegram #client

Warning about Smali Patcher issued in public interest

Smali patcher was released a while ago, and it seemed to be a very useful tool (despite it being windows only) as it would automagically pull, deodex, patch and push sigspoof to your connected phone. Even more so since no other sigspoof patcher seems to support Q yet.

But a little research before I went to ask the "developer" to open source it revealed these posts in the thread:

- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78958124
-> f0mey (OP of thread) admitting that they don't know anything of the source code and probably don't even have access to it

- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80287799
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80287989
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80292041
-> A user complaining that the executable recieves incoming connections from arbitrary IPs, and f0mey nonchalantly saying that they have no idea what that is and it's probably nothing. Further down the thread, f0mey notes the IP seems to be from Russia, still confident that nothing is wrong.

Conclusion:
Still no proof that Smali Patcher does anything malicious, but a pretty big concern.
Also, its origin is still unknown. Perhaps 4pda?

@NoGoolag

#smalipatcher #sigspoof #smali

Xiaomi Geeks Bot

@XiaomiGeeksBot

The bot has been re-written from scratch with tons of improvements and cleanups, you'll note the dramatic increase of responding speed!

I have kept everything in commands as you've used to, with some touches here and there.

This update of the bot introduces some new feature that gives you the best of @XiaomiFirmwareUpdater, @MIUIUpdatesTracker, and @MIUIVendorUpdater.

- Now you can subscribe to your device updates of firmware, MIUI, or vendor so easily using subscribe command. Read subnoscriptions help section for more details.
- Are you using the bot in a device specific group? With this update you can set the preferred device of a chat with /set_codename codename in order to be used as default for commands that needs the codename of the device.
- Multi-languages are here! Thanks to the awesome community, bot has been translated into Arabic, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Turkish! You can change the language using /set_lang command in your pm, and your group if you're an admin.
- Bot help has been more simplified into groups, and I've added usage example of every single command.
- You can manage your bot options using /settings command.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi_uranus_tgbot

Note: You can contribute to bot translation on crowdin if you'd like to use the bot in your own language.

I'll wait your feedback and bugs reports :D
Thank you for the support and hopes you'll like this new update!


📡 @yshalsager_projects
#bot #xiaomi #firmware #vendor #miui

Open Note Scanner + PDF Converter

A full FLOSS alternative to document scanner apps like CamScanner

♦ https://f-droid.org/app/com.todobom.opennotescanner
♦ https://f-droid.org/app/swati4star.createpdf

(Open Note Scanner requires you to download OpenCV manager from GitHub or Play)


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#apps #opennotesscanner #pdf #converter #notes #scanner #pdf #camscanner

Session

A Signal protocol fork with decentralized servers and no need for a phone number

Session is a cross-platform, anonymous and decentralized messaging application. You don't need a phone number or email address to make an account.

Session uses the Loki Service Node network to route the data, for which the nodes are rewarded with $LOKI. The Loki Network itself is made up of some ~1000 community operated Service Nodes where 44% of the supply is held in the SNs - about US$7.5 million at the moment.

I love Signal, but I don't love the attached phone numbers or central servers, but I know there's a challenge in allowing an altruistic intention over a financial incentive for the node operators - Sybil resistance. By using Loki's Service Node network, the crypto-economics is designed in a way that a bad actor would drive the price exponentially up while trying to accumulate enough Loki to be able to perform any traffic analysis on the routed data.

Think of it as a Signal fork meets a Monero fork meets an incentivized TOR network.

Web: getsession.org

FAQ: getsession.org/faq

Whitepaper:
https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Whitepaper.pdf

Sources: github.com/Loki-project

Comments:
http://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/f4yt7z/session_a_signal_protocol_fork_with_decentralized/


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#session #signal #decentralized #im #instant #messaging #alternatives

Search engine alternatives

♦ DuckDuckGo
-> https://duckduckgo.com
-> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
- US based (EU servers for EU, though).
- Mostly Bing, Yahoo and own crawler results
- Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#duckduckgo
- Criticism here
-- https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2143
-- https://redd.it/aqz3q8

♦ SearX
-> https://searx.xyz
-> https://searx.xyz/tor.html
-> searx.space for other instances
- Instance of the open source metasearch engine
- You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
- Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦ Qwant
-> https://www.qwant.com
- French based
- Own crawlers and Bing results.
- Issues: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year"
- Privacy Policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#qwant
- Criticism:
-- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bstxms/qwants_future_regarding_ethics
-- https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-engine

♦ MetaGer
-> https://metager.org
- Open-source metasearch engine
- Based in Germany
- Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦ YaCy
-> https://yacy.net
- Distributed self hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦ Mojeek
-> https://www.mojeek.com
- Uses its own crawlers

Others:

♦ List of search engines:
-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

♦ Startpage
-> startpage.com
- Bought by an ad company
- uses Goolag search
- https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group

♦ Ecosia
-> https://www.ecosia.org
- A bing frontend
- Criticism:
-- https://info.ecosia.org/privacy#privacy-faq-item-6

♦Gigablast
-> https://gigablast.com
- Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
-- https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦ Yippy
-> yippy.com
- Uses Goolag ads

♦ SwissCows
-> swisscows.ch

♦ Disconnect
-> search.disconnect.me
- Connects to Amazon

♦ Wolfram Alpha
-> www.wolframalpha.com
- Doesn't even work without JavaScript

♦ Oscobk
-> oscobo.co.ukk

♦ Lukol
-> www.lukol.com
- Shares data with Goolag
- Privacy policy: https://lukol.com/privacy.php


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#searchengines #search #alternatives

Collabora Office

Open source text editor, spreadsheet and presentation program based on LibreOffice, enhancing your possibilities to work on mobile and for collaboration.
Edit documents directly on your phone or tablet, guaranteeing your privacy and putting you in full control of your data and documents. 

Collabora Office uses the same engine as LibreOffice for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This, combined with a new front-end based on Collabora Online, reads and saves documents similarly to LibreOffice desktop.

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-office-4-2-0-for-ios-and-android

Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/collabora-office/id1440482071

Supported files:
• Open Document Format (.odt, .odp, .ods, .ots, .ott, .otp)
• Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019 (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .dotx, .xltx, .ppsx)
• Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc, .ppt, .xls, .dot, .xlt, .pps)

Report issues:
This app is in active development, feedback and bug reports are very welcome.
Use the bugtracker and attach any files that caused problems via
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/apps/ab-bug . Please note that anything you enter in the bugtracker will be public.


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#collabora #office #text #notes #spreadsheet #alternatives

WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN.

The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing.

VPNs, or virtual private networks, are an important part of any security and privacy toolbox.

https://www.wired.com/story/wireguard-gives-linux-faster-secure-vpn/

Read Via Telegram

https://www.wireguard.com/

📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@NoGoolag

Core

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers

https://core.ac.uk

#openaccess #research #papers

YouTube video hosting alternatives


📽 Odysee
https://odysee.com
📽 Lbry Lbry.tv
🖥 📱https://lbry.com/get?showall=1

📽 BitChute
https://www.bitchute.com
https://app.bitchute.com/bitslide/

📽 BitTube
https://bit.tube

📽 DTube
https://d.tube
📱 DTube (IzzyOnDroid repo)
https://f-droid.org/app/com.powerpoint45.dtube

📽 PeerTube
https://joinpeertube.org
📱 Thorium
https://f-droid.org/app/net.schueller.peertube
📱 Tubelab
https://f-droid.org/repo/app.fedilab.tubelab
📱 P2Play (IzzyOnDroid repo)
https://f-droid.org/app/org.libre.agosto.p2play


Youtube viewers

📱 Newpipe Sponsorblock @newpipe_sponsorblock
• https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases
📱 Newpipe @newpipe_releases
• https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/
• https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
📱 NewPipe Legacy (for Android OS versions 4.x)
https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipelegacy

📱 Skytube
https://f-droid.org/app/free.rm.skytube.oss
📱 SkyTube Extra (IzzyOnDroid repo)
https://f-droid.org/app/free.rm.skytube.extra

📱 YouTube @Vanced
Mod of official closed source app without ads
(Also available in magisk module downloads)

📱 Songtube
@songtubechannel
@songtubegroup
https://github.com/SongTube/SongTube-App

📱 MusicPiped
Music player that only streams audio files (no video), thus eliminating heavy data usage or storage.
https://f-droid.org/app/deep.ryd.rydplayer

📱 Music Downloader (IzzyOnDroid repo)
mp3 / mp4 YouTube downloader
https://f-droid.org/app/com.andreacioccarelli.musicdownloader

📱 YiB (IzzyOnDroid repo)
mp3 / mp4 YouTube downloader
https://f-droid.org/app/com.teocci.ytinbg

📱 YoutubeDL (IzzyOnDroid repo)
Download any video/audio on youtube except videos with age filter
https://f-droid.org/app/me.harshithgoka.youtubedl

📱 YouTube Stream
Get YouTube Stream and open it with local application
https://f-droid.org/app/org.thiolliere.youtubestream

📱 Hello Music (IzzyOnDroid repo)
Music player. Download mp3 from the Youtube app via the share menu – and lets you list, display and open music from within the app.
https://f-droid.org/app/vinetos.hellomusic

📱 YoutubeDownloader - url extractor (IzzyOnDroid repo)
Extracts the urls to the YouTube video or audio files, so you can stream or download them. It features an age verification circumvention and a signature deciphering method (mainly for vevo videos).
https://f-droid.org/app/at.huber.youtubeDownloader

📱 TubTub (IzzyOnDroid repo)
YouTube player which plays only audio in background
https://f-droid.org/app/com.smedic.tubtub

📱 WebTube
https://f-droid.org/app/cz.martykan.webtube


📺 Kore
Kodi remote, send links to play in other device with kodi
https://f-droid.org/app/org.xbmc.kore

📺 Yatse (closed source)
Kodi remote control, cast and send links
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree


🌐 Invidious (browser based yt viewer)
https://invidio.us
https://github.com/omarroth/invidious


🖥 PC youtube-viewer
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer/blob/master/README.md

🖥 Minitube
https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube

🖥 FreeTube
https://freetubeapp.io

🖥 Youtube-dl
https://youtube-dl.org

🖥 SMPlayer
https://www.smplayer.info

🖥 VLC
https://www.videolan.org

🖥 Pennywise
https://github.com/kamranahmedse/pennywise

🖥 YtSubsTracker (View subnoscriptions and play with VLC)
https://gitlab.com/Mis012/YtSubsTracker


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#yt #youtube #video #alternatives