Privacy Apps You Should Be Using on Android - 2021.
AURORA APP
so the first app on the list is aurora store which is available on f droid which as you guys know is a very popular repository for open source android apps anyway talking about aurora store it is basically the google play store without any of the tracking and with more privacy features first up it does not require you to log in so you can remain anonymous on the app then there are so many handy privacy features i mean it shows you the number of trackers an app has for example whatsapp as you can see has one tracker instagram on the other hand has two trackers and messenger takes it a step ahead and has four trackers and you can even tap here to get all the details of these trackers apart from this aurora store lets you access apps not available in your country too and if there is an app not available for your particular device you can use the spoof manager here to get access to that app by changing your device id overall aurora store is great and it uses the play store reports so most apps are available here.
now the next app on the list is a pretty interesting privacy app so jumbo sounds like a very fun app but it's not it's very serious and very handy so this is the app and it has some great privacy features first up you can just enter your email in the app and it will scan the web to show you if your personal data has leaked somewhere as you can see my personal info has leaked in 12 data breaches and there's also info the platforms are responsible for the leak there's big basket nitro mashable canva and more and it also shows you what led to the breach below every platform so this is very useful now apart from this jumbo also lets you link your different social media accounts and shows you what these apps know about your personal life as you can see i have linked my facebook account and it shows me how facebook is using my personal info it's telling me that 90 advertisers are showing me ads based on my contact information also as you can see down below every single one of my personal detail is being used by facebook my relationship status my job title education history everything make sure to comment below what you find with your facebook profile anyway the best thing is i can just tap stop tracking and allow jumbo to you know do its thing and fix it just like that now that is super useful and you can link your instagram twitter google account and see how all those platforms are using your personal data so try it out.
shark exodus
now third app on the list is for people who don't really want to use the aurora store but they do want to know if the apps they're using have any trackers now the app i'm talking about is classy shark exodus yeah it's a weird name but this is based on google's classy shark tool so this app might look a bit outdated on the ui front but you can just tap on an app here and see the trackers for example amazon has four trackers and they're even mentioned down below two of them are for ads as you can see now let's try facebook so facebook as you can see has eight trackers obviously i mean i'm sure this app will open your eyes and show you how bad tracking has become so yeah make sure to try this also one thing to note is that it does not scan system apps yet but the developer is working on that.
Access dots
ios privacy indicators are cool and we have previously recommended access dots because it brings similar privacy dots that show up when an app is using the camera or the mic but today i'm talking about access dots again because it has gone a step further access dots now also shows you a dot where an app is taking up your location via gps yup this is handy well here i am in google maps to give you an idea and you can see this dot here right this shows that an app is using the location plus i like that there's even a whole access log showing the apps that have accessed the camera mic or location with the exact time details apart from this you can customize the color of the dots and set the location of the dots now access dots is available for free but it shows quite a few ads so that's something you should know bromide is the next app on the list and let me just put it this way bromide is basically chrome but more secure more private now what i'm trying to say is bromide is based on chromium so you get all the chrome features the speed but it has a more privacy focused approach and it's cleaner for example here's bromide and chrome's home screen side by side and see how bromide does not have the whole discover and top size recommendations apart from a cleaner ui bromide also has a ton of privacy features now i can't just list down all of them because there's a lot but the important ones include the ability to block all trackers including click tracking hiding user data from websites an option to go incognito always dns over https smart search and amp disabled by default and more like i said there are a lot of privacy features here so try out bromide so cloud storage services are great but they can be a little pricey and they also take up a lot of personal data now that's where sync thing comes in now sync thing is an open source file sync app which you can use to build your own sort of personal private cloud storage see to be clear same thing does not use the cloud at all instead you can use your very own storage system and sync its data to all your devices it's pretty simple i have set up sync thing on my laptop and my phone and as youcan see i have this folder with these files and thanks to sync thing this folder is now available on both the devices also as you can see i can always add more folders and i can always add more devices so in essence both my laptop and my phone are now my private cloud servers where i can save my files and access them on any device i want i know it's a little complex but if you doset it up it can be very handy now apart from the great privacy apps i just talked about there are some more bonus privacy apps that i want to mention and yeah some of these are very popular apps but a lot of people are still not using them so here goes first up signal messenger because you all know the reason we have already talked about the evil sort of plan from whatsapp so this is high time you all switch the signal now second you should use a vpn to keep your identity secure especially on public wi-fi networks so i use proton vpn it's free version only requires you to create an account and sign in and it has three locations which should be enough for most people another thing you should use is a more secure search engine you can use duckduckgo or you can use startpage.com which actually shows your google search results
but does not collect or sell search history and there's no tracking or cookies you should also use a password manager to keep your password strong and secure bit warden password manager is a great feature packed open source password manager available on all platforms lastly you can also check out these apps from the simple mobile tools these apps are basically open source versions of basic apps like dialer contacts notes file manager clock flashlight etc and all of these apps are actually very simple and they don't have any trackers no login required so they might not be as feature rich but they're definitely more private well those are some great privacy apps that you should be using on your android smartphone right away and if you know of any other privacy app that we missed out on just make sure to comment below so that everyone can know also give this video a like if you enjoyed it make sure to share it and subscribe to our channel for more amazing tech videos well that's me signing off thanks for watching i will see you in the next one and yeah stay safe guys thanks for see my posts.
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