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 - 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.
- Brave - Browse faster by blocking ads and trackers
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
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
Voice and SMS verification
- Anonymous BTC SMS - Anonymous SMS account verification for social media registration.
Chat
- Telegram - Heavily encrypted and self-destructing messages.
- Signal - Free peer reviewed scalable encryption chat.
- Wire - End-to-end chats,calls and documents.
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.
- Proton mail - Secure email based in Switzerland.
Password managment
- LastPass - Password management.
- 1Password - Password management.
- Keepass - Password management.
- Passbolt - 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
- 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.
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 - macOS & iOS privacy configurations for email, browsing, and more
Contribute
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