Privacy

Available on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, Proton Mail is an encrypted email service that offers free accounts.

This Russian-language counter-OSINT guide discusses privacy and ways to reduce exposure during online investigations.

Play the number-merging puzzle 2048 in your browser through DuckDuckGo’s game page.

Lumo is Proton’s encrypted AI assistant, with chats described as confidential and not tracked or recorded.

Free, open-source ad blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

uBlock Origin Lite by Raymond Hill is an App Store content blocker for iPhone, iPad and Mac with declarative filtering.

Signal offers private messaging, with its site introducing a communication experience centered on privacy.

PrivacySpy grades and monitors privacy policies through an open project intended to support informed data privacy decisions.

A fully open source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

The Cromite project maintains a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy features for Android, Windows, and Linux.

Home Assistant is open-source home automation software focused on local control and privacy.

Alibi turns a phone into a dashcam and saves the last 30 minutes of footage when needed.

Gruble provides a SearXNG metasearch engine described as privacy-respecting.

Stay for Safari lists userscripts and ad blocking among its features, with ratings and reviews available on the App Store.

Learn about encrypted DNS transports and SNI with ECH in Cloudflare Browser Check documentation.

DuckDuckGo Email Protection offers a free Duck Address for blocking trackers in email while keeping the same inbox.

This community guide collects recommendations for improving security and privacy on macOS.

This local-first web office edits Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in the browser using WebAssembly.

Open Android Backup provides a cross-platform script and app for local device backups, with encryption and compression.

Fossify File Manager helps users manage files on Android, with its project description specifying no ads.

Follow this Linux hardening guide for steps to improve the security of a Linux system.

Privacy Guides compares desktop browser options for standard, non-anonymous browsing and explains the privacy protections each setup targets.

Review the Paranoia Privacy wiki source repository hosted on Codeberg.

This guide sets up Pi-hole and WireGuard on Ubuntu 24.04 using Google Cloud's free tier, with full-tunnel and split-tunnel configurations.