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Browsers, VPNs, messaging apps and vaults: how they work, their settings and their limits.
22 tools to explore
Firefox
Tracking protection, extensions and containers: set up Firefox for everyday browsing and handle sites that stop working.
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Bitwarden
Bitwarden password manager: generator, Argon2id, recovery and exports. The vault, its settings and the limits of its protection.
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Signal
Who can find your number, where do messages remain, and how do you change phones? Settings to know when using Signal with family and friends.
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Immich
A personal photo library, from phone uploads to server recovery. The appeal and the responsibilities of hosting it yourself.
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Mullvad
IP addresses, internet providers, signed-in accounts and dropped connections: choose a VPN around its actual role.
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Cryptomator
Understand the vault, the unlocked drive and recovery before entrusting important files to them.
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1Password
Secret Keys, family vaults and recovery: understand what you entrust to 1Password, then organise access around everyday needs.
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Proton VPN
What does the free plan include? When are NetShield and Secure Core useful? How do you check the kill switch? Proton VPN’s features explained.
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NordVPN
NordVPN: app, extension, kill switch and threat protection. Separate what each function does before you choose a plan.
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Proton Mail
Writing to Gmail, recovering old messages and using Thunderbird: the questions to settle before moving your email.
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Tuta
What Tuta protects, how to write to someone outside the service and what to prepare for archives and account recovery.
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NordPass
NordPass password manager: encrypted vault, passkeys and a generator. What the documentation describes, and what it does not replace.
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Proton Pass
Proton Pass password manager: encrypted vault, hide-my-email aliases and the free plan. What is included, and what you still need to check.
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PrivacyNotes
PrivacyNotes presents an encrypted vault for notes, tasks and journals. The public page we could read does not document recovery.
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KeePassXC
KeePassXC password manager: an encrypted file on Windows, macOS and Linux. You keep the file, so you also keep the backup.
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KeePassDX
KeePassDX opens an encrypted KeePass file on Android, with no required connection. The file and its backup stay on your side.
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KeePassium
KeePassium opens KeePass databases on iOS and macOS, with system autofill and Files-app sync. You still need to check the file backup.
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Psono
Psono is an open-source password manager for teams, self-hosted or as a service. The stated encryption happens in the client, before upload.
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gopass
gopass is a terminal password manager, encrypted with GPG and versioned with Git. It fits if you already live in the terminal.
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LessPass
LessPass computes a password from the site, the login and a secret, without syncing a vault. Change one option and the result changes.
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AliasVault
AliasVault presents an end-to-end encrypted vault for passwords, passkeys and email aliases. Each site can get a separate identity.
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Spectre
Spectre computes a password on the page from your name, a secret and the domain. The site says that information never leaves the page.
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