Top privacy tools, apps and services 2024

Safe internet, privacy tools for your desktop, here you will find best anonymity tools list for desktop, mobile, android, iphone.

latest news: old links fixed, news section metadata cleaners, bastion (youtube alternative), venroty, other new links and minor changes, soon more links will be added. "new" flag will mark actual content only

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Privacy tools blacklist and hot tips

  • Brave - guys, it's not about privacy, it's about money. Brave leak everything. They are highly popular only because there affiliate program and corrupt bloggers who want only money. evidence
  • Mobile phone - is not about your privacy. This is your collar. Use desktop with open source software for at least some privacy
  • ProtonMail - is privacy joke. They use hot descriptions about encryption to mislead you and control your data.
  • Free VPN - any free and paid vpn spy on you. You can use all of them, but be careful.
  • Proprietary software - forget about it. The best in this world is free. Use open source alternatives. This list is good place to start
  • os? - Use any not proprietary os. QubesOS is good choose, but better not to be like everyone. You can use any linux os as host + virtualization to create safe environments for your different tasks.
  • Signal - do you really think that messenger like telegram which request your mobile number and upload your contacts to there servers has something in common with privacy?
  • Bridgefy - the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster

Privacy operation systems

Anonymity and privacy starts with the operational system. No Windows, no MacOS - it's proprietary software against privacy.

Alternative frontends

list of privacy-respecting frontends to popular services like social media.

Leak tools list

check what your computer or browser leak

Privacy based search engines

Browsers for your privacy

firefox addons

I would advise people to be careful with plugins/extensions/add-ons. Add-ons are risky, they bring more attack surface, and you add yet another party you need to trust add-on developer. Before installing add-ons, think about the following: What does the add-on do and what is the impact of it? Who is the developer of this add-on? Is said add-on open source? Does the benefit of add-on outweigh the con of extra attack surface, and adding another party to trust.

free email services

free email address with imap or web boxed. Always remember that email is insecure way of communications

One time emails

decentralized and social networks

decentralized networks

Encrypted Online Communications

Social Media Identity Privacy

online identity social media network accounts privacy tools
  • notarealhuman - Random AI generated faces. (can be used as profile pictures)
  • thispersondoesnotexist - Generated faces to use as avatar for privacy
  • Social-Amnesia - Deletes Twitter and Reddit content based on your terms.
  • redact - tool to delete social media content. (e.g. Discord messages,Instagram messages,posts,likes,etc.)
  • fake-it - generate full fake identities with random name, address, SSN, credit card, phone number, and more!
  • fakedata - browser extension to fill forms with fake data

Why privacy matter

Metadata cleaners

clean metadata tools from disc and various formats like images, audio
  • bleachbit new - open-source good CCleaner alternative, may have less cleaning options, even Hillary Clinton used it to wipe her mail servers
  • exifpurge. - mall portable application to remove EXIF meta data from multiple images at once.
  • exiftool - tool to edit jpeg exif metadata information
  • exiv2. - exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata
  • MAT - clean metadata from files
  • Exif-Remove - remove exif information from photos

Youtube Alternatives

News readers and aggregators

rss, atom and other readers. Google readers alternatives to collect and read news in one place.

Best privacy short urls services

Shared logins

Don't want to register? Maybe try to use shared logins :-)

Disk encrypt tools

recommended apps to encrypt your harddrive

Guides

Files sharing

privacy sharing texts list

Anti-privacy Tools. OSINT tools

Privacy groups, chats and forums

Alternatives

Mobile privacy

Privacy tools for android smartphone. Any mobile phone is not private by default!

Privacy tools

Deep Fakes Software

Other lists

Backup tools

free email forwarding

Free privacy email clients

Developer privacy

  • gitmask - contribute to git anonymous
  • GitTorrent - is a peer-to-peer network of Git repositories being shared over BitTorrent

Jabber clients

Jabber (XMPP protocol) is good alternative for your private communications. Do not forget to use it with encryption like OTR.
  • gajim
  • dino new - pc linux client with omemo
  • DarkMessenger - A version of the Conversations XMPP app which only uses onion addresses.
  • omemo clients - list of xmpp jabber clients supporting new encryption omemo
  • Conv6ations - fork of Conversation with ipv6 and other features

free jabber servers

list of servers where you can create your free accounts

VPN

  • outline vpn - hide traffic from dpi and other detection methods. you can add it as first layer for wireguard vpn
  • algo - install wireguard vpn by simple script
  • openvpn-install - easy openvpn install script
  • wireguard-install
  • subspace - WireGuard VPN server GUI
  • onioncat - transparent layer on top of Tor's or I2P
  • stunnel - proxy designed to add encryption tunnels to existing apps without any changes in the programs' code
  • graftcp - redirect the TCP connection made by the given program [application, script, shell, etc.] to SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy.
  • tinc
  • cloudProxy - Hide your IP behind the cloud providers.
  • Xray-install - easy install script for xray
  • Xray-core - against any firewall
  • v2rayA - A web GUI client of Project V which supports VMess, VLESS, SS, SSR, Trojan, Tuic and Juicity protocols.

Other

Positions

1. no standart privacy solutions exists. Choose from different tools. Privacy throught decentralization. Reduce attack vector

2. I suggest and list open source software

3. My task is not to collect all the links, but the best ones. I give your the opportunity to choose tools. Which of this privacy apps you will use and how, only you can decide.

4. Use linux/FreeBSD. Windows&MacOS is securety holes with eyes.

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