Zerion 2.0.2 is out. 🧅 Playstore Live - Fdroid underway!

No phone number — not even Signal can say that. No email, no server. Runs entirely over Tor; your data stays encrypted on your device.

End-to-end encrypted with hybrid post-quantum crypto. No telemetry, no logging — metadata-free by design.

2.0.2: more reliable broadcast channels, smoother onboarding, faster & more stable messaging.

Free & open source · GPL-3.0
→ https://zerion.chat

#privacy #Tor #FOSS #PostQuantum #Android

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* 2.0 is as ready as possible, test now!
* #Google spreading FUD about #Android #FLOSS apps
* #Fedilab #Mastodon 'Collections'
* more #ReFra gallery goodies
* more categories
+ 34 new apps
& 293 updates

Grab all your devices from the drawers: https://f-droid.org/2026/06/12/twif.html

#KeepAndroidOpen

Musify is an open-source Android music app that lets you stream music, listen offline, view lyrics, and create playlists without ads or subscriptions.

It supports SponsorBlock, includes a built-in equalizer, is available on F-Droid, and lets you import or export your data.

A great privacy-friendly alternative to mainstream music streaming apps.

👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=musify

#OpenSource #Android #Music #Privacy #FOSS #FDroid #Musify

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A project introduction banner and landing page header for "Musify". The top shows a stylized landscape banner with a music note icon. Below, the bold title "Musify" is followed by the tagline: "Unlock the full potential of music: Stream effortlessly with one app!" Repository badges at the bottom display project metrics: 4k stars, 361 forks, 1.3M downloads, release v10.0.9, and a GPL-3.0 license.

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The mobile home screen interface for the "Musify" app in dark mode. A horizontal scroll at the top showcases "Suggested playlists" and album cards. Below, a "Recommended for you" feed lists tracks with small thumbnail artwork and option menus, featuring artists like Bad Bunny, Dax, Djo, and BTS. The home icon on the bottom navigation bar is active.

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A clean, dark-themed mobile "Now Playing" UI from a music app. It features the album artwork for The Weeknd's "Hurry Up Tomorrow," highlighting a close-up profile of a sweating face. Below the art, the text reads "Cry For Me" by "The Weeknd". A blue playback progress bar marks the beginning of the track, positioned above a prominent round blue pause button and standard media control toggles.

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The mobile "Library" screen of a dark mode music player application. The top section lists "Custom playlists" with options for "Recently played", "Liked songs", and "Offline songs". Lower down, under "Liked playlists", a single entry displays the album art and title for "The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow". A bottom navigation bar highlights the Library icon.

We wrote an honest comparison of Zerion against Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, Wire, Session, Cwtch and Tox.

Honest meaning: Signal gets credit for pioneering post-quantum key exchange, Cwtch is genuinely close in spirit, and each app is the right call for some threat model.

Where Zerion stands alone: post-quantum encryption on every single message, and everything (including calls) over Tor.

https://zerion.chat/blog/zerion-vs-mainstream-messengers.html

#privacy #tor #encryption #grapheneos #fdroid #android #p2p

Dennis E. Powell writes, "As has been noted here many times, it is not possible to do anything online (and often elsewhere) without being tracked." But there are things we can do 👉🏻 https://ofb.biz/sa1426

#Privacy #Security #Android

ATT limited some tracking. Meta Pixel was a workaround. Fingerprinting is another one — and it doesn't need any permissions at all. While this isn't limited to just iOS — Android can be mined as well, Loupe is an open source iOS app that shows you the raw data your phone hands out by default. The third tier of signals is genuinely creepy.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/what-your-phone-is-handing-out-before-youve-said-a-word

#privacy #fingerprinting #adtech #apple #android #bigtech #ios #tracking #userhostile #infosec #metapixel #blog

New Signal update for Android (8.15) 🎉

- Remote mute: all participants can now mute others in group calls
- Several improvements and fixes

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/releases/signal-app-android-releases/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #news #android

Fans of #FOSS and/or #football! ⚽

Here's a very simple, ad-free, open-source Android app for the World Cup schedule and scores:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.dasp.worldcup2026

#opensource #soccer #worldcup #wc2026 #fifa #fdroid #android

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Screenshot of app, with three tabs: All, Today, and Results

#NFCShare #Android #malware spreads via fake #banking app updates on #GitHub

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nfcshare-android-malware-spreads-via-fake-banking-app-updates-on-github/

#cybersecurity

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech