awesome-privacy

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

An in-depth guide on purging Windows 10 of Microsoft's attempts to track you

Freeware app from phrozen.io

Free, small and useful software for Windows

The real privacy dashboard for Windows

Destroy Windows Spying tool

Tron, an automated PC cleanup script

Tallow

Tallow is a transparent Tor firewall and proxying solution for Windows

"Crushes malware so you are protected and your machine keeps running smoothly."

Antivirus product from Sophos

Web service for scanning files and URLs for viruses

Helpful HowToGeek article on cleaning out the pipes

Anonymous domain registration by the founder of thepiratebay

VPN section of That One Privacy Site with VPN comparisons

That One Privacy Guy's - Guide to Choosing the Best VPN (for you)

Helpful FAQ-type resource composed by the folks at /r/VPN

Helpful guide from the EFF

TorrentFreak Article by Ernesto

"Encryption against global mass surveillance". Plenty of information to help protect your privacy online

ArchWiki page describing how to achieve a poor man's VPN with SSH tunneling

This is for the discussion of torrenting (and similar P2P protocols) using VPN type technology

Comprehensive tool for comparing VPN services

Guide for self-hosting VPN on AWS with Docker

Guide for self-hosted VPN on Digital Ocean

Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard. Supports MFA, SSO, and has easy deployment options

n2n

Peer-to-peer VPN

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 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

Encrypted proxy project, used in mainland China to circumvent Internet censorship

GoQuiet

Obfuscates traffic as normal HTTPS traffic through domain fronting

Cloak

Universal pluggable transport for Shadowsocks

v2ray-plugin

A plugin that is based v2ray

Government grade anonymous web browsing

Guide for setting up a Tor relay

Provide privacy via mix-networks (Tor alternative).``

Anonymous overlay network (Tor alternative)

Check what IP is exposed to the internet

Test privacy settings of your web browser

Test privacy / trackability of your web browser

Test privacy settings on browser

Search engine that doesn't track you

The world's most private search engine

Tor search engine

See if your email address or password has been found in a database hack

Encrypted and anonymous web browsing

Privacy focused web browser

To cater to powerusers and meet the demands of 4chan's /g

Ad blocking and private search mobile web browser

Privacy-first web browser with lots of addons to further increase privacy

Change user agent to prevent browser finger printing

Block ads and other tracking services

Prefers encrypted sessions

Private data cleaner for Chrome and Firefox

Automatic ad blocking and tracking protection on iOS and Android

Privacy-first consumer DNS service by Cloudflare

Prevents fingerprinting in Firefox

Deletes unnused cookies on tab close

Protects against tracking with a local CDN (Content Delivery Network) emulation

uBlock Origin

An efficient and essential blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast, lean, and powerful

The world's most popular userscript manager

Configures how WebRTC's network traffic is routed by changing Chrome's privacy settings

A browser extension that gives users control of the web and more secure browsing while emphasizing simplicity and intuitiveness

Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and clickjacking attacks

An open-source userscript manager

Creates privacy focused Firefox profiles that you can easily configure to match your needs and preferences

Remove forced download accelerators, managers, and adware on supported websites

AdGuard Popup Blocker

Popup Blocker by AdGuard is a userscript that blocks all unwanted pop-up windows in different browsers

Block domains at host file level for faster more private web browsing

Hosts (GitHub project)

List of malicious domains to block in host file

Live operating system that you can start on almost any computer. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity

Reasonably secure operating system

Linux distro with all network traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and anonymized

High security method of surfing the internet

Privacy focused flavor of Ubuntu

Cherry

A self-hosted webchat server that supports HTTPS

Free peer reviewed scalable encryption chat

End-to-end chats, calls, and documents

End-to-end serverless Tor chat

Open source app to remove exif metadata from images

Secure open source video conferencing

Hide your email for signups

Forward email from your own domain name (allows for uniq emails for each website you register)

Temporary email

Temporary email

Temporary email

Open-source anonymous email forwarding (with optional PGP encryption)

Secure email based in Switzerland

Based in Belgium – 500 MB free; 20 GB Pro

Based in Germany – 1 GB free; 10 GB Pro

Based in Germany – 2 GB storage

Host your own email on your own server

(@forwardemail) - the only 100% open-source, encrypted, and privacy-focused email service

Password management

Password management

Open source password management

Open source password management

Open source password management using to encrypt passwords

Open source password management with Cloud syncing

No sync password management

Simple GPG/Git password manager. Follows the Unix philosophy

Meet people in real life to purchase physical electronics

Free electronics for sale

Anonymously purchase bitcoins with cash

Sending and receiving online bitcoin payments

Launder bitcoins

Bitpay offers pre-paid credit cards with BTC

Marketplace for people to conduct over-the-counter trading in bitcoin currency

Bitcoin transaction compression which aims to improve privacy

Cloud back up certified by the Independent Regional Centre for Data Protection of Schleswig-Holstein

Cloud back up protected by Swiss data protection laws (but hosted on Microsoft Azure) with client side encryption

Cloud back up with client side decryption only

Open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform based in Germany

think AWS S3 but with client-side encrypted

lethe

A cross-platform data wiping tool that implements data destruction suggestions given by Bruce Schneier in his book

Guide to choosing a VPN provider

Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs

(archive.org link, original content down) - macOS & iOS privacy configurations for email, browsing, and more

Privacy-focused alternaties to Google services

Guidance to creating (truly) anonymous identities

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole

Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora

The intersection of technology, privacy, and freedom in a digital world

Any Soft Keyboard

A privacy-focused keyboard

Services, tools, and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance

Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software