Table stakes for #privacy friendly apps in 2025 (my top 5):
1. Don't require email or any other personal information to sign up. Use a session key like NanoGPT or Mullvad.
2. Accept #Monero.
3. Don't block traffic from VPNs - encourage it!
4. Don't use analytics, which allow big tech to surveil your customers.
5. For messaging, support integration with Simplex and/or Signal, like #XMRBazaar.
What else am I missing that's important for you? #asknostr
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For all its flaws, I appreciate integrated Tor in certain mobile apps, wallets mainly.
I understand some apps are under jurisdiction laws so I don’t mind:
1. email: I could give a expendable one
2. I could also do #lightning depending on the service product
3. I prefer always web apps over mobile apps because I have no way to know how much data they are keeping
4. If it doesn’t work with TOR I forget it
5. I find simplex fine but I prefer the old good GPG. I really like the #RoboSats way
I understand the app have to ask questions, like nostr:nprofile1qqs0cpan3knpzta7dn2wpyas2l976yyxjfc9rqt88uedt4qw4h4dfkgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qpaj73l ‘s #CakePay (not using VPN, …) but seems to works fine with VPN or via TOR on a computer, so lying here’s fine
I can't recommend #lightning personally. Huge faff to run your own node, and too easy to take the path of lesser resistance into high fees and lack of privacy with, say, Phoenix.
I so want to like it, but it's got a long, long way to go to offer the privacy, convenience, and dirt cheap fees of #Monero.
Offer Tor and i2p sites.
Make a no JS version oft your site. JS is overrated.
Send a warning if iOS or Windows are detected as surveillance operating systems. Suggest Linux and Grapheme instead.
Are free and open-source and have no internet connection if possible.
