Awesome Privacy
Limiting personal data leaks on the internet
- Awesome Privacy
Anonymous web browsing
Hide your IP address
Domain registration
- njal.la - Anonymous domain registration by the founder of thepiratebay.
VPN
- VPN comparison - Comprehensive tool for comparing VPN services.
- Docker AWS VPN - Guide for self hosting VPN on AWS with docker.
- DigitalOcean self hosted VPN - Guide for self hosted VPN on Digital Ocean.
Mix networks (Tor, etc.)
- Tor project - Government grade anonymous web browsing.
- How to setup Tor relay - Guide for setting up a Tor relay.
- Panoramix - Provide privacy via mix-networks (Tor alternative).``
- The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) - Anonymous overlay network (Tor alternative).
Http proxies
Browser testing
- What is my IP address - Check what IP is exposed to the internet.
- EFF browser privacy test - Test privacy settings of your web browser.
- Privacy checkup - Test privacy / trackability of your web browser.
- Privacy test by Tenta - Test privacy settings on browser.
Search engines
- DuckDuckGo - Search engine that doesn't track you.
- Ixquick - The world's most private search engine.
- Ahmia - Tor search engine.
- Have I been pwned? - See if your email address has been found in a database hack.
Web browsers
- Tor browser - Encrypted and anonymous web browsing.
- Epic browser - Privacy focused web browser.
- Net runner - To cater to powerusers and meet the demands of 4chan's /g.
- Cliqz - Ad blocking and private search mobile web browser.
- Firefox - Privacy-first web browser with lots of addons to further increase privacy
Extensions & plugins for web browsers
- User agent changer - Change user agent to prevent browser finger printing.
- Privacy badger - EFF - Block ads and other tracking services.
- HTTPS everywhere - EFF - Prefers encrypted sessions.
- Click&Clean - Private data cleaner for Chrome and Firefox.
- Firefox Focus browser - Automatic ad blocking and tracking protection on iOS and Android.
- DNS service - Privacy-first consumer DNS service by Cloudflare.
- CanvasBlocker (FF) - Prevents fingerprinting in Firefox
- Cookie AutoDelete - Deletes unnused cookies on tab close
- Firefox Profilemaker - Creates privacy focused Firefox profiles
Host file optimizations
- How to make the internet not suck (as much) - Block domains at host file level for faster more private web browsing.
- Hosts (GitHub project) - List of malicious domains to block in host file.
Linux distros
- Tails OS - Live operating system that you can start on almost any computer. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
- Qubes OS - Reasonably secure operating system.
- ipredia - Linux distro with all network traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and anonymized.
- Whonix - High security method of surfing the internet.
- Discreete Linux - Privacy focused flavor of Ubuntu.
Communication
Chat
Video
- jitzi - Secure open source video conferencing.
- Nbox - Hide your email for signups.
- Improvmx - Forward email from your own domain name (allows for uniq emails for each website you register).
- Yopmail - Temporary email.
- Mailinator - Temporary email.
- Throw Away Mail - Temporary email.
- ProtonMail - Secure email based in Switzerland.
- Mailfence - Based in Belgium – 500 MB free; 20 GB Pro
- Tutanota - Based in Germany – 1 GB free; 10 GB Pro
- Mailbox.org - Based in Germany – 2 GB storage
- Mail-in-a-box - Host your own email on your own server
Password managment
- LastPass - Password management.
- 1Password - Password management.
- Keepass - Open source password management.
- Passbolt - Open source password management.
- PasswordStore - Open source password management using
gpg
to encrypt passwords. - BitWarden - Open source password management.
- LessPass - No sync password management
Burner electronics
- Craigslist - Meet people in real life to purchase physical electronics.
- Freecycle - Free electronics for sale.
Payment
- Localbitcoins - Anonymously purchase bitcoins with cash.
- Bitcoin Core - Sending and receiving online bitcoin payments.
- Bit Launderer - Launder bitcoins.
- BTC Prepaid Credit Card - Bitpay offers pre-paid credit cards with BTC.
- List of cryptocurrencies (wikipedia)
- Over the counter btc - Marketplace for people to conduct over-the-counter trading in bitcoin currency.
- CoinJoin - Bitcoin transaction compression which aims to improve privacy.
File hosting
Backup
- Synqion (Formerly TeamDrive) - Cloud back up certified by the Independent Regional Centre for Data Protection of Schleswig-Holstein.
- Tresorit - Cloud back up protected by Swiss data protection laws (but hosted on Microsoft Azure) with client side encryption.
- SpiderOak - Cloud back up with client side decryption only.
- NextCloud - Open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform based in Germany.
- Least Authority S4 - think AWS S3 but with client-side encrypted
Blogs
- Do you need a vpn? (mozilla) - Guide to choosing a VPN provider.
- Firefox privacy guide - Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs.
- A Better Online Experience (archive.org link, original content down) - macOS & iOS privacy configurations for email, browsing, and more.
- Google alternatives - Privacy focused alternaties to Google services.
Contribute
Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.