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README.md

@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 	<a href="https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/discussions"> Discussions </a>
 </p>
 
-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actually represent distinct concepts. It is important to understand the differences between them. [Read more in this section below](#privacy-vs-security-vs-anonymity).
-> 
-> The primary focus of this list is to provide alternatives that prioritize privacy. These alternatives give you control over your data and do not collect or sell it.
+### ⚠️ [Important note](#privacy-vs-security-vs-anonimity)
+
+Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actually represent distinct concepts. It is important to understand the differences between them. [Read more in this section below](#privacy-vs-security-vs-anonimity).
+
+The primary focus of this list is to provide alternatives that prioritize privacy. These alternatives give you control over your data and do not collect or sell it.
 
 ## Contents
 - [2FA](#2fa)
@@ -106,7 +107,6 @@
 - [Translation](#translation)
 - [Uncategorized](#uncategorized)
 - [Utilities](#utilities)
-- [Version Control](#version-control)
 - [Video and Audio Conferencing](#video-and-audio-conferencing)
 - [Video Editing](#video-editing)
 - [Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)](#VPNs)
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
 - [ente Auth](https://ente.io/auth) - A free, cross platform, end-to-end encrypted and open source app for managing your 2-step verification tokens. From the makers of [ente Photos](https://ente.io), and uses the same battle tested infrastructure. Needs an ente.io account.
 - [Owky](https://github.com/charlietango/owky) - Free and Open Source Two-Factor Authenticator for IOS users.
 - <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [FreeOTPPlus](https://github.com/helloworld1/FreeOTPPlus) - Enhanced fork of FreeOTP-Android providing a feature-rich 2FA authenticator.
+- [RaivoOTP](https://github.com/raivo-otp/) - A native, lightweight and secure one-time-password (OTP) solution for **iOS** users.
 - <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Authenticator Pro](https://github.com/jamie-mh/AuthenticatorPro) - Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) client for Android + Wear OS.
 
 ## Analytics
@@ -142,7 +143,6 @@
 - [Shynet](https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet) - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
 - [Swetrix](https://swetrix.com) - Privacy-focused, fully cookieless and opensource (and selfhostable) web-analytics service.
 - [Umami](https://umami.is/) - A simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
-- [Unidentified Analytics](https://unidentifiedanalytics.web.app/) - Naive ip-based tracking that works everywhere (web, command-line, email, etc). No account required. Developer friendly.
 
 ## Android
 
@@ -192,14 +192,13 @@ Preinstalled file managers and third-party file manager apps found on the play s
 - [AnySoftKeyboard](https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/) - The only Android keyboard you'll ever need. Free as in speech and Free as in beer.
 - [Indic Keyboard](https://gitlab.com/indicproject/indic-keyboard) - Indic Keyboard is a versatile keyboard for Android users who wish to use Indic and Indian languages to type messages, compose emails and generally prefer to use them in addition to English on their phone.
 - [Simple Keyboard](https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard) - Simply keyboard and nothing more.
-- [OpenBoard](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard) - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy. It is no longer updated, but still works.
-	- [Heliboard](https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard) - A privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard with many additional features and improvements, including support for custom dictionaries, themes, and glide typing.
+- [OpenBoard](https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard) - OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.
+	- [OpenBoard upgrade](https://github.com/Helium314/openboard) - A fork of OpenBoard with many additional features and improvements. Releases are in a beta state.
 
 ### Android Gallery
 
 Your phone gallery is a deeply personal aspect of your life, it may contain images and videos that capture intimate moments, locations, and people important to you. Protecting its privacy is essential to prevent misuse of this information, not only for you, but it also ensures the privacy of friends and family captured in these photos, who may not consent to having their images shared.
 
-> [!NOTE]
 > For a private way to store and backup your photos see [Photo Storage](#photo-storage) section.
 
 <img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> **Avoid**
@@ -470,11 +469,8 @@ If you need an app for **menstrual cycle tracking** please don't use any apps li
     - [OFF Apps](https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app)
 
 ### Menstrual cycle trackers
-- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Bluemoon](https://gitlab.com/ngrob/bluemoon-android) - Open source, privacy friendly menstruation tracking app. Your period, your data!
-- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Drip](https://dripapp.org/) - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
-- [Euki](https://eukiapp.org/) - The period tracker that doesn’t track you. 
+- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Drip](https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/) - Menstrual cycle and fertility tracking. Everything you enter stays on your device.
 - <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [log28](https://github.com/wildeyedskies/log28) - a (very) simple no-frills period tracker for Android.
-- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Periodical](https://github.com/arnowelzel/periodical) - A calendar to track your menstruation and calculate possible fertile days 
 
 ### Medical health
 - [Fasten](https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem) - Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 1000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics.
@@ -648,7 +644,7 @@ No servers involved. Everything goes directly from one peer to the other peer. N
 ### Third-Party owned
 - [Forward Email](https://forwardemail.net) - the 100% open-source and privacy-focused email service.
 - [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) - Secure Email. Based in Switzerland. [Read this article over Climate activist arrest](https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/).
-- [Tuta](https://tuta.com/) - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.
+- [Tutanota](https://tutanota.com/) - Secure email for everybody. Open Source.
 - [Riseup](https://riseup.net/en/about-us) - Online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.
 - [Mailfence](https://mailfence.com) - Secure and private email.
 
@@ -688,7 +684,7 @@ With email aliases, you can finally create a different identity for each website
 <img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> **Instead use**
 - [Open Street Map (OSM)](https://www.openstreetmap.org/) - OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
   - [OSMAnd](https://osmand.net/) - Android/iOS Navigation app using OSM. It is a feature-rich app with all you expect.
-- [Qwant Maps](https://map.qwant.com/) - An OpenStreetMap-based private Google Maps alternative.
+- [Qwant Maps](https://www.qwant.com/maps/) - An OpenStreetMap-based private Google Maps alternative.
 - [Organic Maps](https://organicmaps.app/) - Great offline maps for hikers and cyclists.
 
 ## Media Streaming Platforms
@@ -781,7 +777,7 @@ These providers offer apps and services filled with data trackers. Also, most of
 - [Notally](https://github.com/OmGodse/Notally) - A beautiful notes app (local only, no sync).
 - [Notesnook](https://notesnook.com/) - Open source zero knowledge private note taking.
 - [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) - Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app. Closed source but has no trackers (website / apps) and E2EE sync. 
-- [Quillpad](https://quillpad.github.io/) - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists. Fork of Quillnote.
+- [Quillnote](https://qosp.org/#/) - Take beautiful markdown notes and stay organized with task lists.
 - [SiYuan](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan) - A local-first personal knowledge management system.
 - [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.org/) - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
 - [TinyList](https://tinylist.app/) - Create and share notes and checklists, without sacrificing your privacy.
@@ -838,12 +834,9 @@ Many websites require phone number verification. These services offer a way to r
 
 <img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> **Instead use**
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> **Android app compatibility**:
-> Although all of these Operating Systems are Android, app compatibility may not be perfect due to a lack of GMS (Google Mobile Services) which some apps require. You can check how well apps work with microg (a free and open source alternative to GMS) or no GMS at all with [Plexus](https://plexus.techlore.tech/) where the community can report how well android apps perform in those environments.
+> **Note on Android app compatibility**: Although all of these Operating Systems are Android, app compatibility may not be perfect due to a lack of GMS (Google Mobile Services) which some apps require. You can check how well apps work with microg (a free and open source alternative to GMS) or no GMS at all with [Plexus](https://plexus.techlore.tech/) where the community can report how well android apps perform in those environments.
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> **Android security**: Custom ROMs can improve your privacy the same as they can decrease the Android security, always use ROMs that support verified boot and encryption and **DO NOT** have root enabled by default. If possible, don't use userdebug builds. If your threat model requires security, buy a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. [Read more on PrivacyGuides](https://www.privacyguides.org/android/overview/).
+> **Note on Android security**: Custom ROMs can improve your privacy the same as they can decrease the Android security, always use ROMs that support verified boot and encryption and **DO NOT** have root enabled by default. If possible, don't use userdebug builds. If your threat model requires security, buy a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. [Read more on PrivacyGuides](https://www.privacyguides.org/android/overview/).
 
 
 - [GrapheneOS](https://grapheneos.org/) - GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
@@ -883,18 +876,13 @@ You can also check out [Media Streaming Platforms](https://github.com/pluja/awes
 GNU/Linux is a family of free (as in freedom and as in free beer) and open source Operating Systems mostly developed by the community. If you don't know where to start these are good options for begginers:
 
 - [Fedora](https://getfedora.org/)
-- [Mint (Cinnamon)](https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=305) is a beginner friendly distribution.
-- [Qubes OS](https://qubes-os.org/) is a security-oriented operating system that isolates various workspaces into separate virtual machines to enhance privacy and security.
-- [Tails](https://tails.net/) is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. It always starts from the same clean state and everything you do disappears automatically when you shut down Tails.
+- [Mint (Cinnamon)](https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=305) is a beginner friendly distribution. 
 
-> [!TIP]
->  If you want to try it out without installing it to your computer, you can use a [Live USB Stick](https://www.fosslinux.com/274/how-to-create-linux-mint-live-usb-drive-on-windows.htm). You can also investigate [Ventoy](https://www.ventoy.net) to easily download and test linux distros with a USB stick.
+> If you want to try it out without installing it to your computer, you can use a [Live USB Stick](https://www.fosslinux.com/274/how-to-create-linux-mint-live-usb-drive-on-windows.htm). You can also investigate [Ventoy](https://www.ventoy.net) to easily download and test linux distros with a USB stick.
 
-> [!TIP]
 > If you want to install Linux but keep your current operating System, you can set up [dual boot](https://averagelinuxuser.com/dualboot-linux-windows/).
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> Not all Linux distributions are free (as in freedom), free (as in free beer) or respect user privacy. There are tons of GNU/Linux distributions and you should investigate a bit before jumping into one of them!
+> Note: Not all Linux distributions are free (as in freedom), free (as in free beer) or respect user privacy. There are tons of GNU/Linux distributions and you should investigate a bit before jumping into one of them!
 
 #### Other OS:
 
@@ -1008,7 +996,7 @@ These tools are useful when sharing secrets, code snippets or any other kind of
 
 ### Third-party
 - [Crypt.ee](https://crypt.ee/) - A private and encrypted place for all your photos, documents, notes and more.
-- [Ente](https://ente.io/) - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source, [audited](https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit/) independently.
+- [Ente](https://ente.io/) - End-to-end encrypted storage for photos and videos. Open source clients, [audited](https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit/) independently.
 
 ### Local
 - [DigiKam](https://www.digikam.org/) - Awesome Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source.
@@ -1063,8 +1051,7 @@ This section is dedicated to some tools that may help users analyze the privacy
 
 ## Social Networks and Platforms
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> **The fediverse**
+> **NOTE: The fediverse**
 >
 > The fediverse is a "**fed**erated" "un**iverse**" of social network platforms that are able to talk to one another through a standard and open protocol. This means that you can consume content on any network from any of these networks. You are not locked to a single provider, you are free to choose. Please [watch this video](https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD?start=8s) by FramaSoft that illustrates the concept very good.
 >
@@ -1072,10 +1059,9 @@ This section is dedicated to some tools that may help users analyze the privacy
 >
 > All the apps compatible with the Fediverse (ActivityPub) are marked with a 🧩
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> **Alternative frontends and clients**
+> **NOTE: About alternative frontends and clients**
 >
-> Alternative frontends are good to protect your individual privacy. You can still consume the contents of privative and privacy-harmful services with protection over your privacy and some anonymity. Even using most these alternative frontends, still, the privative services will receive requests about the content you are consuming (even not knowing it is you). This sitll harms the collective privacy and adds data to their algorithms in some ways. Only the alternative frontends (or clients) that act as a proxy will hide your real IP from the content provider. 
+> Alternative frontends are good to protect your individual privacy. You can still consume the contents of privative and privacy-harmful services with protection over your privacy and some anonimity. Even using most these alternative frontends, still, the privative services will receive requests about the content you are consuming (even not knowing it is you). This sitll harms the collective privacy and adds data to their algorithms in some ways. Only the alternative frontends (or clients) that act as a proxy will hide your real IP from the content provider. 
 >
 > You can use these browser extensions and apps to automatically redirect any links to privacy-respecting alternative frontends:
 > - [Farside](https://github.com/benbusby/farside) - A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services.
@@ -1139,6 +1125,7 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 <img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> **YouTube alternative frontends (web-based):**
 - [Invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious) - Alternative and privacy respecting YouTube frontend.
 - [Piped](https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
+	- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [LibreTube](https://github.com/Libre-tube/LibreTube) - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped.
 - [ViewTube](https://github.com/viewtube/viewtube-vue) - ViewTube is an alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend written in Vue.js
 - [Youtube-Local](https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local) - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance.
 
@@ -1174,7 +1161,6 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 
 - [Nostr](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr) - Open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network. It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works. **Note**: Nostr is a protocol, so it is capable of offering much more than a Twitter alternative.
 
-> [!NOTE]
 > **Federated social networks**: A federated social network isn't a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it's a network of thousands of communities operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience.
 
 - [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) 🧩 - Free, federated microblogging social network built on open protocols.
@@ -1202,8 +1188,10 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 - [SaidIt](https://saidit.net/) - Open source Reddit clone.
 
 <img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img> **Privacy respecting Reddit clients:**
-- [Libreddit](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) - ~Private Reddit front-end written in Rust~ [No longer working - Read here](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/840)
-- [Redlib](https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib) - An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit.
+- [Libreddit](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) - Private Reddit front-end written in Rust [No longer working - Read here](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit/issues/840)
+- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Infinity](https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit) - A beautiful Reddit client for Android.
+- <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Dawn](https://github.com/Tunous/Dawn) - A gesture driven, open source reddit client for android
+- <img width="16" src="misc/apple.png"> <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Slide](https://github.com/ccrama/Slide) - Slide is an open sourced, ad free Reddit browser for Android and iOS.
 
 ### Streaming Platforms (Twitch)
 
@@ -1249,8 +1237,7 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 - [Nextcloud Talk](https://nextcloud.com/talk/) - Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk.
 - [Mattermost](https://mattermost.com/) - Open-source Slack alternative.
 
-> [!WARNING]
-> **Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:**
+**Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:**
 > Your IP and messages will still be shared and belong to Discord and they are not encrypted.\
 > Also using any of these modifications/clients [violates](https://nitter.net/discord/status/1006178587731550208#m) the [Discord ToS](https://discord.com/terms) so, we are not responsible of any suspension or termination of your account **but**, this should [not happen **yet**](https://github.com/GooseMod/GooseMod/wiki/FAQ#is-goosemod-against-discord-tos).
 
@@ -1298,16 +1285,6 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 - [Deskreen](https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen) - Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer.
 - [Loggit](https://loggit.net) - Simple and Encrypted Life Tracking & Logging.
 
-## Version Control
-<img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> **Avoid**
-
-- **Github** - [![](https://shields.tosdr.org/en_297.svg)](https://tosdr.org/en/service/297), although the privacy policy is not very bad, it is owned by Microsoft, and it's common knowledge that it uses the code it hosts to train AI models.
-
-<img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img>  **Instead use**
-- [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/) -  Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects. 
-- [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/) - Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.
-- [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/) - GitLab a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.
-
 ## Video and Audio Conferencing
 <img width="16" src="misc/forbidden.png"> </img> **Avoid**
 
@@ -1331,7 +1308,6 @@ Odysee website contains some trackers and is a heavy site. You can use these alt
 
 
 ##### Alternative clients/modifications of Discord:
-> [!WARNING]
 > Your IP and messages will still be shared and belong to Discord and they are not encrypted.\
 > Also using any of these modifications/clients [violates](https://nitter.net/discord/status/1006178587731550208#m) the [Discord ToS](https://discord.com/terms) so, we are not responsible of any suspension or termination of your account **but**, this should [not happen **yet**](https://github.com/GooseMod/GooseMod/wiki/FAQ#is-goosemod-against-discord-tos).
 - [OpenAsar](https://openasar.dev/) - An open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar that comes with a [No Track](https://github.com/GooseMod/OpenAsar/blob/main/src/noTrack.js) function.
@@ -1385,6 +1361,7 @@ Here are some open source and truly private (no personal data and/or credit card
 <img width="16" src="misc/check.png"> </img>  **Instead use**
 
 #### Android / iOS
+- [Bromite](https://www.bromite.org/) - It has been known to lag on security patches, so it may be better not to use it.
 - [Brave](https://brave.com/) - Android/iOS. Brave offers a pretty good out-of-the-box set of privacy and tracker protections.
 - [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/mobile/) - Android/iOS
     - <img width="16" src="misc/android.png"> [Mull](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/) - Privacy hardened fork of Firefox for Android, with proprietary blobs removed.
@@ -1400,7 +1377,6 @@ Here are some open source and truly private (no personal data and/or credit card
 - [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/)
 - [Mullvad Browser](https://mullvad.net/en/browser/) - Browser with the privacy and security implications of the Tor Browser, without the use of the Tor network.
 
-> [!TIP]
 > It may be interesting to learn what you can do to harden your browser. You can follow this [Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity](https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html#appendix-v1-hardening-your-browsers) section to do it. Please, if you don't understand what you are doing, don't do it as you may be causing more harm than good to your privacy.
 
 ### Browser Addons
@@ -1424,7 +1400,7 @@ Please read about what the addon does before installing. If you don't understand
   - [WebView Switcher](https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/bromitewebview) - A tool for installing Bromite WebView on android 10
 
 
-## Privacy vs Security vs Anonymity
+## Privacy vs Security vs Anonimity
 
 Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actually represent distinct concepts. It is important to understand the differences between them.
 
@@ -1436,7 +1412,7 @@ Anonymity, Privacy, and Security are often used interchangeably, but they actual
 
 It is important to note that privacy and security are not necessarily interdependent. For instance, Google systems are secure and unlikely to be hacked, but Google still has access to your personal data and makes use of it. 
 
-Privacy and anonymity are also not necessarily linked, services like Signal offer high levels of privacy since they do not collect any data about what you say, who you talk to or how you use the app, but they may not be anonymous since you still need to register using your phone number (which is in many cases linked to your identity).
+Privacy and anonimity are also not necessarily linked, services like Signal offer high levels of privacy since they do not collect any data about what you say, who you talk to or how you use the app, but they may not be anonymous since you still need to register using your phone number (which is in many cases linked to your identity).
 
 Finally, there are services that may offer all three: anonymity, privacy, and security. The primary focus of this list is to provide alternatives that prioritize privacy. These alternatives give you control over your data and do not collect or sell it.