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Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Daniel @lemmy.ml 2y ago

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)
- SearXNG
  
  Gosh, I love SearXNG, and how you can fit it to work into your workflow!
- Wait... How do you make SearXNG redirect to old.reddit?
  
  Change your settings.yml to have this
  
  enabled_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
  
  Awesome! Thank you
  
  You're welcome. :)
  
  Wow this feature alone makes me want to try using it
  
  It 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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