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Awesome Privacy is a curated open source directory of privacy-respecting alternatives to everyday apps and services, organized into categories such as essentials, communication, security tools, networking, productivity, operating systems and development. It also offers saved items stored on-device and a changelog of new entries.
Balena-AdGuard is a code project with source, releases, documentation, or setup notes.
BehindTheOverlay is a code project with source, releases, documentation, or setup notes.
Berty is a nonprofit project building a privacy-first peer-to-peer messenger on the Wesh network. Conversations use end-to-end encryption in a distributed network, with messaging over Bluetooth Low Energy that needs no network connection. Data is stored only on the device, and the software is described as forthcoming and open source.
Bitmask is a free, open-source VPN app from LEAP Encryption Access Project that connects to vetted providers. It includes built-in tools to evade censorship, and the system behind it is self-hostable, allowing individuals or collectives to run private, circumvention-focused VPNs. The app is described as having no accounts, no logs and no tracking.
Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector from The Markup. A user enters a website address and Blacklight scans it, revealing user-tracking technologies on the site. Tests cover ad trackers, third-party cookies, tracking that evades cookie blockers, session-monitoring scripts, keystroke capturing, and data sent to Facebook, TikTok, Twitter/X and Google Analytics. A scan normally takes between 30 seconds and one minute.
Blocklist is a privacy DNS service at tiar.app offering DNS resolution over DNS, DNSCrypt, DoH/DoH3, DoQ and DoT. It filters ads, ad-tracking and malware, and states DNSSEC validation, no EDNS Client Subnet and no logs. It is published on GitHub under an MIT license.
Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go. It blocks DNS queries using external ad-block and malware lists, with allowlists configurable per client group and periodic reloading of lists. It supports DNS over UDP, TCP, HTTPS, TLS, QUIC and HTTPS/3, and does not collect user data or telemetry.
Breach Detective is a data breach search engine for checking whether personal data has been exposed in data leaks. It searches billions of records to show compromised credentials, including leaked passwords. Free, Pro and Ultimate plans differ in daily search allowances. Breach notifications are listed as coming soon.
Burn My Note is a service for sending self-destructing messages. Messages are encrypted on the device before being sent, optional password protection adds another layer, and notes are permanently deleted from the servers after being viewed.
ByeByeDPI is a code project with source, releases, documentation, or setup notes.
Cabal is a chat platform for friends and communities that works offline. Devices in a cabal communicate directly with each other rather than through a server, and users can read history and write messages offline, syncing later. Cabals use secret joining keys, have channels for topics, and rely on subjective moderation by users.
Censor Tracker Feedback is a Telegram link for updates, app posts, files, or community notices.
Chromecast is a code project with source, releases, documentation, or setup notes.
Chromium Hardening Guide is a setup guide for using a Chromium-based browser with flags and policies. It covers selecting a browser, applying policies and persisting flags, with primary focus on Linux and Windows and notes for Android and MacOS where applicable. Configuration files can be generated by an automated script or edited by hand.
ClearURLs is a browser add-on built on WebExtensions technology and optimized for Firefox and Chrome based browsers. It automatically removes tracking elements from URLs in the background to help protect privacy while browsing, using a rules catalog maintained by the project and community. It also blocks some common ad domains optionally, blocks hyperlink auditing and prevents ETag and history API tracking. Chrome-based browsers may disable the add-on during the Manifest V2 phase-out.
Cloudflare One refers to the 1.1.1.1 with WARP app, a free app from Cloudflare that encrypts more of the traffic leaving a device to prevent snooping. It is available for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. A WARP+ subscription provides access to a larger network with more cities to connect to.
Cover Your Tracks is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation that tests a browser to show how well it is protected from tracking and fingerprinting. It shows how trackers view the browser and gives an overview of the browser's most unique and identifying characteristics. Only anonymous data is collected through the site.
A browser fingerprinting test page that reports a range of signals, including timezone, Intl data, headless-browser and stealth percentages, WebRTC connection details, WebGL, screen properties, canvas, audio, fonts, speech and media information. It also lists JS/DOM, CSS and window feature results and provides a test interface with sections for workers, iframes, fonts, timezone and extensions.
Cwtch is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, metadata resistant messaging app. Communication is end-to-end encrypted and takes place over Tor v3 onion services. Participants can host their own safe spaces or lend infrastructure to others. The protocol is open, and anyone is free to build bots, services and user interfaces.
Cwtch is the official cwtch.im peer implementation, written mainly in Go. Its README describes it as privacy-preserving infrastructure for asynchronous, decentralized and metadata-resistant applications, extending the metadata-resistant Ricochet protocol to support asynchronous, multi-peer group communications through discardable, untrusted, anonymous infrastructure. The README notes that a server section is out of date and that no current docker container exists.
Data Brokers Watch curates a publicly available database of data brokers and makes it available to the research community. The dataset includes up to 60+ data points on services distributed across the globe, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The project describes data brokers as companies that collect personal data and license it to other organizations.
DataRequests is a website that helps people generate GDPR requests to companies for their privacy rights. Users choose companies from a database or add their own, the site generates a request the user sends themselves, and it offers reminders and help assessing answers and complaining. The site states it never sees user data.
DefensiveComputingChecklist is a site by Michael Horowitz that offers an index of defensive computing topics. The table of contents links to subjects such as browsers, passwords, phishing, identity theft, routers and VPNs.
