privacy
The new firewall for the modern Internet.
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
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The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content.
(WIP) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
This is Zedless, a fork of Zed that's designed to be privacy-friendly and local-first.
Searloc is a fast, local randomizer for searXNG instances and for !!external bang users.
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Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act.
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This website aims at studying the diversity of browser fingerprints and providing developers with data to help them design good defenses. Contribute to the efforts by viewing your own browser fingerprint or consult the current statistics of data provided by users around the world! If you click on this button.
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Decentralized search engine & automatized press reviews
- Explore the press with no middlemen between the newspapers and your web browser.
- Discover millions of results within seconds and explore the last ones in Firefox via this addon.
- Schedule searches, select your press review and export it in a few clicks.
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A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
🛡️ PII Guard is an LLM-powered tool that detects and manages Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in logs — designed to support data privacy and GDPR compliance
Swaps non-privacy respecting sites with open source privacy frontends.
Privacy Please is a browser extension that automatically redirects users from major websites to privacy-respecting frontend alternatives. Instead of feeding surveillance capitalism, you get clean access to content without tracking, ads, or engagement profiling.
disposable email server with an easy setup.
Whenever you sign up with your email on a website, your email address is stored and sometimes sold to advertisers. This is where you get your bulk of spam emails. Whenever a data breach happens, you also risk having your primary email address leaked and informations stolen.
Using Nortix Mail, you can create disposable email addresses that can be used to sign up to website that requires email verification. This is very useful when you just want to try out new website / services without giving away your real email address. It significantly enhances privacy, security and reduces spam. It's like running your own Gmail server.
Secure peer-to-peer chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral.
Chitchatter is a free (as in both price and freedom) communication tool. Designed to be the simplest way to connect with others privately and securely.
DMH will execute action when you will not be able to. Dead-man-switch software with privacy in mind.
Dead-Man-Hand will execute pre-added actions when you will no longer be "available".
All actions are encrypted and when properly configured nobody will be able to get action details till you are alive.
Main goal of DMH is to ensure that actions can be executed only when you are dead. And before that time, every action should be confidential - even for people who have access to DMH.
Interface with Home Connect appliances in Python.
Python tool to talk to Home Connect appliances over the local network (no cloud required).
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Continuing the legacy of Vanced.
Customize your mobile experience through ReVanced by applying patches to your applications.
Bypass Microsoft Account creation during Windows 11/10 install.
With Microsoft’s recent Windows 11 updates, the bypass for the network requirement (NRO) was "effectively" blocked, forcing users into an online account creation. MSAPatcher brings back the simplicity of the bypassnro.cmd one-liner, allowing you to bypass the NRO without having to manually add registry keys or deal with complex workarounds.
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Make Windows Yours.
Open-source tool to build your Windows script from scratch. It features debloat, privacy, performance & app installing scripts.
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A privacy-focused alternative frontend to Tumblr with a touch of modern design
Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot. Rayhunter is an IMSI Catcher Catcher for the Orbic mobile hotspot.
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Automated Command Line Identity Generation Tool for OSINT Investigators. Command Line Sock Puppet Creator for Investigators.
Loki can create a sock puppet identity, that you can use to create a fake online presence to start your investigations. As an OSINT, Private or any other Investigator who seeks to conduct OSINT investigations; you need a sock puppet which cannot be traced back to you. Setting up a sock puppet is easy; only if you know where to look for.
A lightweight, GDPR and CCPA compliant Consent Management Tool written in vanilla JS.
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Transfer your audience from X to BlueSky and/or Mastodon.
Find the ones you follow. In just a few clicks.
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Your location companion.
OwnTracks is an Open Source project which provides iOS and Android apps with which devices publish their current location to a server of your choice. While there are many smartphone apps available which can do that, OwnTracks is special in as much as you decide what happens to your data. To all of it.
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See how trackers view your browser. Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting.
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AliasVault is an end-to-end encrypted password and alias manager that protects your privacy by creating alternative identities, passwords and email addresses for every website you use. The core of AliasVault is built with C# ASP.NET Blazor WASM technology. AliasVault can be self-hosted on your own server with Docker.
Surfer Protocol is an open-source framework that allows you to export your personal data from various platforms.
Your personal data is siloed across many platforms and apps. Big tech companies have no incentive to give you easy access to your own data. Whether you want to make an AI clone that texts like you, reclaim your data from big tech, or leave a digital legacy, Surfer Protocol is the way to do it.
Currently, Surfer Protocol consists of a Python SDK and a Desktop App. The Desktop App is used for exporting your data from your favorite apps and services. The Python SDK is used for building applications off of your personal data.
Secure, Lightweight Encrypted Notepad for Privacy.
SealNotes is an end-to-end encrypted web-based notepad that stores and manages your notes.
Open-source time tracker.
ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.
It is open source, privacy-first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime. It can be used to keep track of your productivity, time spent on different projects, bad screen habits, or just to understand how you spend your time.
Paste a password, confidential message, or private data. Keep your sensitive information out of chat logs, emails, and more with encrypted secrets.
Hemmelig is a encrypted sharing platform that enables secure transmission of sensitive information. All encryption occurs client-side using TweetNaCl, ensuring your data remains encrypted before it reaches our servers. The platform supports both personal and organizational use cases, with features like IP restrictions, expiration controls, and optional password protection. Whether you're sharing credentials, sensitive messages, or confidential files, Hemmelig strives to ensure your data remains private and secure.
The Privacy Engineering & Compliance Framework.
Fides (pronounced /fee-dhez/, from Latin: Fidēs) is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in your runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in your code.
Claw back your data from Big Tech with Cyd.
Tech platforms can't be trusted. It's time to regain control of your data. Backup and delete all of your tweets for free with Cyd (formerly Semiphemeral).
Privastead is a privacy-preserving home security camera solution that uses end-to-end encryption
Pensieve is a privacy-focused passive recording project. It can automatically record screen content, build intelligent indices, and provide a convenient web interface to retrieve historical records.
This project draws heavily from two other projects: one called Rewind and another called Windows Recall. However, unlike both of them, Pensieve allows you to have complete control over your data, avoiding the transfer of data to untrusted data centers.
I Know Where Your Cat Lives iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is a data experiment that locates a sample of 7 million public images of cats on a world map using the geocoordinates users unknowingly embedded in their metadata. The cats were accessed via publicly available APIs provided by popular photo sharing websites. The photos were then run through various clustering algorithms using a supercomputer in order to represent the enormity of the data source.
Independent Privacy & Security Resources. The collaborative privacy advocacy community. Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.
Privacy Guides is a socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy. Our mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. We are a non-profit collective operated entirely by volunteer team members and contributors. Our website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.
Your end-to-end encrypted backend.
Etebase makes it easy to build end-to-end encrypted applications by taking care of the encryption and its related challenges. Think Firebase but encrypted in a way that only end-users can access their data.
Freenet is a distributed, decentralized alternative to the centralized World Wide Web, designed to unleash a new era of innovation and competition, while protecting freedom of speech and privacy.
The heart of Freenet is the Core, which runs on users' computer, smartphone, or other devices. The Core is tiny, less than 5 MB, allowing it to be installed in a matter of seconds and is compatible with a wide range of hardware.
Protect your online privacy and rights by learning about dark patterns and unethical designs. Stay informed and avoid manipulation in the digital world.
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✨ Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you! Zen is a privacy-focused browser that blocks trackers, ads, and other unwanted content while offering the best browsing experience!.
Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data.
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Solid is an evolution of the web by its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Solid realizes Tim's original vision for the Web as a medium for the secure, decentralized exchange of public and private data.
AI powered by what you've seen, said, or heard. Alternative to Rewind.ai.
screenpipe records your screens and mics 24/7 safely on your computer, and connects it to AI, creating magic from your data.
open-source cryptographic APIs.
Welcome to the home of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle and its FIPS-certified open-source cryptographic APIs for Java and C#.
a simple protocol for decentralizing social media that has a chance of working. a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working.
A better internet is possible: decentralize Twitter, eBay, IoT and other stuff.
Smart-client/dumb-server architecture that can create the free and open internet we were promised.
Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History (Google Maps Timeline).
Dawarich is a self-hosted web application to replace Google Timeline (aka Google Location History). It allows you to import your location history from Google Maps Timeline and Owntracks, view it on a map and see some statistics, such as the number of countries and cities visited, and distance traveled.
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Send private and secure notes.
Enclosed is a minimalistic web application designed for sending private and secure notes.
All notes are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring that the server and storage have zero knowledge of the content. Users can set a password, define an expiration period (TTL), and choose to have the note self-destruct after being read.
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a web app to blur faces and other parts of a photo.
Baatchit MERN end-to-end-encrypted realtime chat application with features like message reactions, typing-indicators, friend request, last seen, file/gif sharing, edit/delete messages, polling, group chats, user active status, push notifications, pwa, private key recovery, google-auth, otp-verification
A web browser security testing, privacy testing, and troubleshooting tool.
Zen is the best way to browse the web.
Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data.
Privacy redefined, The first messenger without user IDs.
private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random).
Wireguard client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy.
wireproxy is a completely userspace application that connects to a wireguard peer, and exposes a socks5/http proxy or tunnels on the machine. This can be useful if you need to connect to certain sites via a wireguard peer, but can't be bothered to setup a new network interface for whatever reasons.
Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.
Self-hostable, privacy-focused website analytics.
Medama Analytics is an open-source project dedicated to providing self-hostable, cookie-free website analytics. With a lightweight tracker of less than 1KB, it aims to offer useful analytics while prioritising user privacy.
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Open source & zero knowledge private note taking app. Open source. End-to-end encrypted.Private. Write notes with freedom, no spying, no tracking.
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 & Argon2.
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
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- Private Internet Searches with SearXNG @ Jim's Garage.
- SearXNG — Privacy-focused metasearch engine for your homelab @ Akash Rajpurohit! 👋.
Personal Security Checklist. Your guide to securing your digital life and protecting your privacy.
🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2024.
Emora is an OSINT tool like sherlock but with a GUI, which search for accounts by username across social networks.
Emora allows you to search for accounts by username across social networks. Inspired by tools like Sherlock, Emora provides a user-friendly graphical interface to ease the usage and navigation through the results.