Proud to mention the first project created by one of our members @valere, and also the first project to be awarded the Humane Tech badge. Check it out:
Privacy
Exodify - Wondering if an app is tracking you? Now you can see it directly in the Play store.
Thanks @aschrijver
This browser extension is only made possible thanks to the hard work of Exodus Privacy and their REST API! They are a great group, and putting such hard work, consider supporting them -> https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/
Data Selfie | - Track yourself on Facebook and analyze your data (read faq and privacy before using).
This application shows how much information can be derived from the personal data people carelessly provide to social networks (in this case FB). Check the video on how it works:
Note: If considering using for yourself, read the privacy statement and know that in order to analyse your data, some of it is forwarded to 3rd party services (IBM Watson and University of Cambridge… no not Cambridge Analytica ). Therefore I’ve mentioned the privacy statement in the description of the awesome list.
Really? Because the title of the Github page is “Awesome Humane Tech”. Seems to me that it is about human tech in general.
I am finding many thread unintelligible many threads because of the use of acronyms. I have no idea what is being said. What is OSS? I have no idea what you mean. I think anyone reading this and seeing “DDG” would have absolutely no idea what that means. There is another thread full of acronyms as well where I didn’t understand what was being written. Thanks.
DDG was in reference to your post above… the acronym for DuckDuckGo (while ‘googling’ is a word, saying “I am going to DuckDuckGo it” is a bit clumsy)
OSS means Open Source Software.
Regarding Github. Its the largest collection of open-source projects worldwide, targeted to software developers.
Most awesome lists deal mostly with OSS (though not always and this is not a requirement). The introductory paragraph in this list describes its purpose.
@aschrijver You’re right about sticking to open source. When it’s not fully open source you never know what the real intentions are.
DuckDuckGo for example they’re for-profit just like Google. They made an estimated USD $7 million revenue last year which supports 45 employees. DuckDuckGo tries to make the appearance that they are different, but are they really? They are funded by venture capital, and the founder previously made $10 million by an SEO website which listed random names and name misspellings in the web’s wild days. So we have to be very careful. Many services imply they are doing good, but are they humane tech? Or just a slight improvement, or just an alternative to the big monopolies?
I wouldn’t trust any company with investors, that’s for sure.
And slowly the list is growing. Some nice additions:
Privacy
Fair Analytics - A Google Analytics-alike server that doesn’t undermine user’s privacy.
Privacy Respecting - A curated list of privacy-respecting Services and Software.
Hosts - Consolidates several reputable hosts files, and merges them into a single unified one.
Blocklists - Shared lists of problem domains people may want to block with hosts files.
Hosts and Blocklists are nice (and sometimes better) alternatives than ads/tracking blockers.
Parents may consider this as a means not easily detected by your tech-savvy kids
Blocklists contains very specific hosts file examples that explicitly block e.g. everyting-Facebook.
Social networks
News Feed Eradicator - A browser extension that replaces your Facebook news feed with a nice quote. (thank you @ariadnemm )
Two more additions to humane tech. One is a beautiful substitute for Google Analytics. Measure exactly what users are doing on your site or in your app, without invading their privacy by having Google aggregate and collect all of this information.
Privacy
Matomo | - The leading open alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data.
Thank you @john! You maintain a very nice list. I have added it to the ‘Related awesomeness’ section
Would you be willing to include a link back in your ‘Other lists’ section and/or a link to CHT in the ‘Organizations’ section? That would be great. I can PR if you want…
Related awesomeness
Free Software - A curated list of free as in freedom software.
The latest addition to is a browser extension that automatically strips Google Analytics (UTM) querystring parameters.
What are those? They are added by many sites that use Google analytics and are automatically added to URL’s in the page, and also come from links you copy from mail messages. They are the utm_* statements after the question mark on the URL. Google uses this to determine that the URL came from you. For this purpose it includes ID’s and the like. Anyone clicking such link will send the parameters to the domain specified in the URL, where Google Analytics picks up this information.
When you use URL’s elsewhere having these parameters then Google can detect that and track you across sites, as well as the people who click on them (and determine those you have reached by your link sharing).
Privacy
Tracking Token Stripper - Browser extension that strips Google Analytics (UTM) tokens from URL query strings.
I am not sure, to what category Validbook should be added. Although, primary service among Validbook Services is Validbook social - a social networking service. Validbook as whole is not just and mainly not about social networking. It is based on a more abstract, higher level paradigm of optimizing cooperation levels among humans, things and virtual entities. Functionaly, it is a set of cooperation services like - service to create Self-Sovereign Identity, Digital Documents Signing Service, Social Networking Service, etc. More in this post - Validbook - a universal platform for cooperation