What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet?
What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet?
Software that burns down the server of any website that asks for data they don't actually need.
45Not sure if this already exists in some form, but I want something that always records where I've been. I am a very forgetful person and the Google maps timeline feature has been very helpful more than a handful of times. Unfortunately, it means that Google knows exactly where I've been also...
I just want to be able to check where I was the afternoon of a random Tuesday three years ago!
40Something that produces a wealth of plausible web traffic on my connection and browser that woefully misleads anyone monitoring it as to what I actually am browsing. Rather than hiding my traffic or ensuring some hyper level of encryption I simply want to use maybe an LLM or something to create such a close facimilie to "normal" online traffic that my online fingerprint becomes useless as sub 5% of my traffic is actually real.
Essentially I want privacy through drowning out everything with noise. It seems like the harder the to unwind in the end if done in a clever way. That plus some basic security protections and I will feel fairly secure.
25Not sure if this counts, but a simple FOSS BIOS/UEFI option that could be installed on most desktops and laptops. The current options (Libreboot, coreboot) are very limited in compatible hardware.
24Ever since Signal removed SMS capability I've really hoped to see SMS added to the FOSS fork Molly.
11Not sure if this exists at all, privacy friendly or not, but it is something where privacy would be extremely important.
I would love to have some sort of application that allows the mapping of atomic (as in minimal) political statements and their logical relationships (e.g. if this is true then this other statement can't also be true) and evidence from media for their truth or falsehood. Probably also some sort of glossary of precise word definitions and which statement uses which of the definitions. This part should probably be done publicly and shared with other users apart from maybe a mechanism to obscure who added which information but this next part can not be public but lots of people would want the information. You should be able to mark each of those statements as something you agree with or not and then explore the implications of your opinions.
I feel something like that would be nice to replace the constant repetition of the same arguments on the same issues, especially if one could publicly link to individual statements from anywhere on the internet.
11Havent tried every app but If I had to think of some:
- an offline foss calendar that can import ics files (simple calendar is the only option soon fossify)
- an app that can display Checksums for files
- a dark privacy overlay for phones that can't use privacy screen protectors, like newer gen pixels
Edit: Second an offline fitness tracker where a person can manually input info. Been using an ods file for a couple of years but its a pain to use collabora on android
10Search engine like yacy. Open scource and p2p.
9They are dozens of great, free software applications developed… the problem is getting the masses to use these applications.
8An open-source, federated, and privacy-protecting alternative to the dominant advertising services. Something that gives the individual web user full control of which ads they see; from which indies, organizations, companies or any other groups. And where they can also filter ads based on clear categories, values, or tags, rather than everything being dictated by algorithms and "relevancy".
8A messaging app/service that can work via both regular stable connections but also via non-online. Briar is kind of similar to what I am talking about. But it can't/doesn't go as far as I mean. It can send messages via cell data, WiFi, and Bluetooth but as far as I am aware, it can't do a mix of them. And it would still require the person being messaged to be within range of my phone's Bluetooth if not on cell/WiFi. So it doesn't do the hopping I am really interested in (to my understanding).
So I am wanting to be able to have basically zero cell or WiFi signal on my phone, but be able to just have shit be able to bounce around via all methods to get to the person I am trying to reach. So like I could be in a no service spot for my carrier but maybe a friend that also has the app and does have a signal be used to bounce my message from Bluetooth to their cell or WiFi that is working. Then it either get to the final person from that bouncing, or maybe still get it if they are also in a no-signal area but still near another friend that does and is also in their Bluetooth range.
So the message would just hop whatever chain of devices and connections even if it takes a little more time (like if it just had to keep hopping from a number of phones completely through Bluetooth jumping. Would also be cool if it could jump even if the other devices didn't have the app and was just encrypted text-only blobs hopping like how data hops around various servers when online. But aside from the fact that data costs money and would mean basically everyone's shit would get used at all times. The nightmare of how the messages/service would know how to get places, or if maybe it already arrived via one method while a different chain was still trying would be massive. In addition to literally all the other things that would have to be figured out. And that is all before making sure it could be still private in any real way.
6Decentralized encrypted email.
Create a key, identify it by a hash of it, and encrypt all mail sent to the account with the key. Allow it to run on top of regular email using one or more email addresses as an alias, but have the key itself be the identifier.
Client 1 creates a key pair > uploads email address(es)/"aliases " that client controlls (signed with key pair) > client 2 searches for emails based on client 1's key or aliases > client 2 sends email through one or more of the accepted inboxes encrypted with public key > client 1 reads encrypted email.
Basically a modernized version of PGP that also handles identification, and similar to how it's been proposed to change Matrix accounts to in order to make them decentralized.
5Ummmm, ALL of them.
5Something like invidious and libreddit but for tumblr. Its currently borderline impossible to use tumblr without am account and it drives me NUTS! Ive been tempted to pay somebody for this at this point, im so desperate lmao
4I'd love a self-hostable tool like trakt or simkl, to track my media consumption, as well as release dates.
4Not sure if this exists but digital privacy awareness apps and mini games for educating people. (graphical content)
3Self-sovereign identity, with granular information sharing, and good encryption/signing support. I want to:
- be able to create ad-hoc identities
- own my identities independent of any third-party provider
- be able to slice identity information and selectively share subsets of possibly signed data
- cryptographically attest other peoples shared data
- have all of this on blockchain, rather than depending on service providers
There's a fair amount of almost solutions, and except for blockchain, nostr has most of the necessary structure. What's missing is a NIP for an identity/profile data format standard, and a spec for data handling. But mainly, apps that make it easy to use, to publish, to verify and validate, and to authorize.
I'm sick of having hundreds of distinct identites scattered around the internet. Having the option to be anonymous or a distinct persona is important, but it shouldn't be necessary every time, and I should always be the owner of that identity.
3A good note taking application kinda like Joplin but where I can draw over the text notes without having to draw in a separate program and then Import it as an image. I want to take notes while in class, so it should be fast to begin drawing.
Features:
- able to draw
- Sync with my other devices (Linux laptop and desktop) preferably via my nextcloud instance.
- Place images where I want and not just on its own line
- Supports latex or katex
- Syntax highlighting for code
2Pen and paper
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