awesome-privacy
Privacy toolkit
A curated collection of tools and resources for protecting personal data on the internet
đŸ’¡Limiting personal data leaks on the internet
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Awesome Privacy / Windows 10 Privacy | |||
| O&O ShutUp10 | O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far | ||
| Windows 10 Privacy Guide | 1,411 | over 6 years ago | An in-depth guide on purging Windows 10 of Microsoft's attempts to track you |
| Windows Privacy Tweaker | Freeware app from phrozen.io | ||
| Winaero | Free, small and useful software for Windows | ||
| WPD | The real privacy dashboard for Windows | ||
| Destroy-Windows-10-Spying | Destroy Windows Spying tool | ||
| Tron | Tron, an automated PC cleanup script | ||
| Tallow | 528 | about 4 years ago | Tallow is a transparent Tor firewall and proxying solution for Windows |
Awesome Privacy / Antivirus | |||
| MalwareBytes | "Crushes malware so you are protected and your machine keeps running smoothly." | ||
| HitmanPro | Antivirus product from Sophos | ||
| VirusTotal | Web service for scanning files and URLs for viruses | ||
| How to remove viruses and malware on your Windows PC | Helpful HowToGeek article on cleaning out the pipes | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / Domain registration | |||
| njal.la | Anonymous domain registration by the founder of thepiratebay | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / VPN Guides and Tutorials | |||
| That One Privacy Site | VPN section of That One Privacy Site with VPN comparisons | ||
| Choosing the best VPN (for you) | That One Privacy Guy's - Guide to Choosing the Best VPN (for you) | ||
| /r/VPN wiki | Helpful FAQ-type resource composed by the folks at /r/VPN | ||
| Choosing the VPN that's right for you | Helpful guide from the EFF | ||
| Which VPN services keep you anonymous in 2018? | TorrentFreak Article by Ernesto | ||
| privacytools.io | "Encryption against global mass surveillance". Plenty of information to help protect your privacy online | ||
| VPN over SSH | ArchWiki page describing how to achieve a poor man's VPN with SSH tunneling | ||
| /r/VPNTorrents | This is for the discussion of torrenting (and similar P2P protocols) using VPN type technology | ||
| VPN comparison | Comprehensive tool for comparing VPN services | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / Self-hosted VPNs | |||
| Docker AWS VPN | Guide for self-hosting VPN on AWS with Docker | ||
| DigitalOcean self hosted VPN | Guide for self-hosted VPN on Digital Ocean | ||
| Firezone | Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard. Supports MFA, SSO, and has easy deployment options | ||
| n2n | 6,342 | about 1 year ago | Peer-to-peer VPN |
| OpenVPN | OpenVPN provides flexible VPN solutions to secure your data communications, whether it's for Internet privacy, remote access for employees, securing IoT, or for networking Cloud data centers | ||
| WireGuard VPN | WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / Shadowsocks | |||
| Shadowsocks | Encrypted proxy project, used in mainland China to circumvent Internet censorship | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / Shadowsocks / Various plugins: | |||
| GoQuiet | 822 | over 3 years ago | Obfuscates traffic as normal HTTPS traffic through domain fronting |
| Cloak | 3,447 | about 1 year ago | Universal pluggable transport for Shadowsocks |
| v2ray-plugin | 2,710 | 11 months ago | A plugin that is based v2ray |
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / 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) | ||
Awesome Privacy / Anonymous web browsing / 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 | ||
Awesome Privacy / Search engines | |||
| DuckDuckGo | Search engine that doesn't track you | ||
| Startpage | The world's most private search engine | ||
| Ahmia | Tor search engine | ||
| Have I been pwned? | See if your email address or password has been found in a database hack | ||
Awesome Privacy / 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 | ||
Awesome Privacy / Web browsers / 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 | ||
| Decentraleyes | Protects against tracking with a local CDN (Content Delivery Network) emulation | ||
| uBlock Origin | 47,986 | 11 months ago | An efficient and essential blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast, lean, and powerful |
| TamperMonkey | The world's most popular userscript manager | ||
| WebRTC Network Limiter | Configures how WebRTC's network traffic is routed by changing Chrome's privacy settings | ||
| ScriptSafe | A browser extension that gives users control of the web and more secure browsing while emphasizing simplicity and intuitiveness | ||
| NoScript | Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and clickjacking attacks | ||
| Violentmonkey | An open-source userscript manager | ||
| Firefox Profilemaker | Creates privacy focused Firefox profiles that you can easily configure to match your needs and preferences | ||
Awesome Privacy / Web browsers / Userscripts | |||
| AntiAdware | Remove forced download accelerators, managers, and adware on supported websites | ||
| AdGuard Popup Blocker | 349 | 11 months ago | Popup Blocker by AdGuard is a userscript that blocks all unwanted pop-up windows in different browsers |
Awesome Privacy / 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) | 27,114 | 11 months ago | List of malicious domains to block in host file |
Awesome Privacy / 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 | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Chat | |||
| Cherry | 301 | over 8 years ago | A self-hosted webchat server that supports HTTPS |
| Signal | Free peer reviewed scalable encryption chat | ||
| Wire | End-to-end chats, calls, and documents | ||
| Ricochet | End-to-end serverless Tor chat | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Image | |||
| ExifCleaner | Open source app to remove exif metadata from images | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Video | |||
| jitsi | Secure open source video conferencing | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Email | |||
| 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 | ||
| AnonAddy | Open-source anonymous email forwarding (with optional PGP encryption) | ||
| 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 | ||
| Forward Email | (@forwardemail) - the only 100% open-source, encrypted, and privacy-focused email service | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Password managment | |||
| LastPass | Password management | ||
| 1Password | Password management | ||
| Keepass | Open source password management | ||
| Passbolt | Open source password management | ||
| PasswordStore | Open source password management using to encrypt passwords | ||
| BitWarden | Open source password management with Cloud syncing | ||
| LessPass | No sync password management | ||
| Pass | Simple GPG/Git password manager. Follows the Unix philosophy | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / Burner electronics | |||
| Craigslist | Meet people in real life to purchase physical electronics | ||
| Freecycle | Free electronics for sale | ||
Awesome Privacy / Communication / 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 | ||
Awesome 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 | ||
Awesome Privacy / System utilities / Command line tools | |||
| lethe | 20 | about 4 years ago | A cross-platform data wiping tool that implements data destruction suggestions given by Bruce Schneier in his book |
Awesome Privacy / 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 | ||
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity | Guidance to creating (truly) anonymous identities | ||
Awesome Privacy / Miscellaneous | |||
| Pi-hole | Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole | ||
| Prism Break | Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora | ||
| /r/privacy | The intersection of technology, privacy, and freedom in a digital world | ||
| Any Soft Keyboard | 2,895 | 11 months ago | A privacy-focused keyboard |
| PrivacyTools | Services, tools, and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance | ||
| switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software | ||
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