Don’t think any groups like that exist, simplex is mostly known by cybersecurity/opsec nerds. We would have to be the change we want to see.

Almost all 50501 people use discord and reddit, with a small subset on signal. There’s a growing awareness to use better platforms however so I’m spreading the word.

I use it for IRL contacts mostly

There are directories for groups, here is the official one (others contain lots of porn)

https://simplex.chat/docs/directory.html

What kind of group were you thinking of?

Also add bypass paywalls clean 👍

Yes, fennec is nowhere near as hardened/privacy/security focused

Hell yeah. We’ve been using it as our main comms for almost a year and love it

Simplex chat is a hardened fork that does not require any phone number and can be completely self hosted

You can quickly spin up new identities to give out, I get the network effect with signal is big but simplex is perfect for our use case so I felt like mentioning it

https://simplex.chat/

Ironfox is the hardened FF/mobile librewolf

Orion browser on IOS is compatible with firefox AND chrome extensions

If you’re trying to not be tracked you need to protect your IP. There’s a lot more but that’s the basic first step

Futo with amoled dark purple theme is actually slick as hell imo

Yt-dlp

Tor’s primary purpose is to access clearnet sites, hidden services are secondary.

To use Lemmy anonymously register and log in only over tor. Using it only sometimes defeats the purpose

You can use onionmail.org for verification

Feel free to ask if you have questions about Tor/anonymity

Orion browser IOS has firefox and chrome extension support (doesn’t work for everything but most do)

Tor browser

And Mullvad browser

That mostly depends on your IP reputation, don’t think the browser itself is going to affect it much

I’ve switched from librewolf to mullvad browser, it is tor browser minus the tor network.

In other words it makes all its users have the same fingerprint so that they can blend together. This is much more effective at detetring tracking than simply hiding or randomizing details like librewolf does.

In this thread the arkenfox Dev goes as far to say “PS: long term I am hoping we can retire arkenfox (I can’t speak for LW) and just use MB - but they’re just a little too divergent for now”

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

Other options (besides tor browser) are librewolf or Arkenfox, no other firefox forks are reputable from a security/privacy perspective

2nd place is duck.AI in via tor browser

https://dangerzone.rocks/

“Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs.”

a, A, b, B?