Awesome Privacy

Limiting personal data leaks on the internet

• Awesome Privacy
  • Anonymous web browsing
    • Domain registration
    • VPN
    • Mix networks (Tor, etc.)
    • Http proxies
    • Browser testing
  • Search engines
  • Web browsers
    • Extensions & plugins for web browsers
  • Host file optimizations
  • Linux distros
  • Communication
    • Chat
    • Video
    • Email
    • Password managment
    • Burner electronics
    • Payment
  • File hosting
    • Backup
  • Blogs
  • Contribute
  • License

Anonymous web browsing

Hide your IP address

Domain registration

• njal.la - Anonymous domain registration by the founder of thepiratebay.

VPN

• VPN comparison - Comprehensive tool for comparing VPN services.
• Docker AWS VPN - Guide for self hosting VPN on AWS with docker.
• DigitalOcean self hosted VPN - Guide for self hosted VPN on Digital Ocean.

Mix networks (Tor, etc.)

• Tor project - Government grade anonymous web browsing.
• How to setup Tor relay - Guide for setting up a Tor relay.
• Panoramix - Provide privacy via mix-networks (Tor alternative).``
• The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) - Anonymous overlay network (Tor alternative).

Http proxies

Don't use http proxies

Browser testing

• What is my IP address - Check what IP is exposed to the internet.
• EFF browser privacy test - Test privacy settings of your web browser.
• Privacy checkup - Test privacy / trackability of your web browser.
• Privacy test by Tenta - Test privacy settings on browser.

Search engines

• DuckDuckGo - Search engine that doesn't track you.
• Ixquick - The world's most private search engine.
• Ahmia - Tor search engine.
• Have I been pwned? - See if your email address has been found in a database hack.

Web browsers

• Tor browser - Encrypted and anonymous web browsing.
• Epic browser - Privacy focused web browser.
• Net runner - To cater to powerusers and meet the demands of 4chan's /g.
• Cliqz - Ad blocking and private search mobile web browser.
• Firefox - Privacy-first web browser with lots of addons to further increase privacy

Extensions & plugins for web browsers

• User agent changer - Change user agent to prevent browser finger printing.
• Privacy badger - EFF - Block ads and other tracking services.
• HTTPS everywhere - EFF - Prefers encrypted sessions.
• Click&Clean - Private data cleaner for Chrome and Firefox.
• Firefox Focus browser - Automatic ad blocking and tracking protection on iOS and Android.
• DNS service - Privacy-first consumer DNS service by Cloudflare.
• CanvasBlocker (FF) - Prevents fingerprinting in Firefox
• Cookie AutoDelete - Deletes unnused cookies on tab close
• Firefox Profilemaker - Creates privacy focused Firefox profiles

Host file optimizations

• How to make the internet not suck (as much) - Block domains at host file level for faster more private web browsing.
• Hosts (GitHub project) - List of malicious domains to block in host file.

Linux distros

• Tails OS - Live operating system that you can start on almost any computer. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.
• Qubes OS - Reasonably secure operating system.
• ipredia - Linux distro with all network traffic is automatically and transparently encrypted and anonymized.
• Whonix - High security method of surfing the internet.
• Discreete Linux - Privacy focused flavor of Ubuntu.

Communication

Chat

• Signal - Free peer reviewed scalable encryption chat.
• Wire - End-to-end chats,calls and documents.

Video

• jitzi - Secure open source video conferencing.

Email

• Nbox - Hide your email for signups.
• Improvmx - Forward email from your own domain name (allows for uniq emails for each website you register).
• Yopmail - Temporary email.
• Mailinator - Temporary email.
• Throw Away Mail - Temporary email.
• ProtonMail - Secure email based in Switzerland.
• Mailfence - Based in Belgium – 500 MB free; 20 GB Pro
• Tutanota - Based in Germany – 1 GB free; 10 GB Pro
• Mailbox.org - Based in Germany – 2 GB storage
• Mail-in-a-box - Host your own email on your own server

Password managment

• LastPass - Password management.
• 1Password - Password management.
• Keepass - Open source password management.
• Passbolt - Open source password management.
• PasswordStore - Open source password management using gpg to encrypt passwords.
• BitWarden - Open source password management.
• LessPass - No sync password management

Burner electronics

• Craigslist - Meet people in real life to purchase physical electronics.
• Freecycle - Free electronics for sale.

Payment

• Localbitcoins - Anonymously purchase bitcoins with cash.
• Bitcoin Core - Sending and receiving online bitcoin payments.
• Bit Launderer - Launder bitcoins.
• BTC Prepaid Credit Card - Bitpay offers pre-paid credit cards with BTC.
• List of cryptocurrencies (wikipedia)
• Over the counter btc - Marketplace for people to conduct over-the-counter trading in bitcoin currency.
• CoinJoin - Bitcoin transaction compression which aims to improve privacy.

File hosting

Backup

• Synqion (Formerly TeamDrive) - Cloud back up certified by the Independent Regional Centre for Data Protection of Schleswig-Holstein.
• Tresorit - Cloud back up protected by Swiss data protection laws (but hosted on Microsoft Azure) with client side encryption.
• SpiderOak - Cloud back up with client side decryption only.
• NextCloud - Open source, self-hosted file share and communication platform based in Germany.
• Least Authority S4 - think AWS S3 but with client-side encrypted

Blogs

• Do you need a vpn? (mozilla) - Guide to choosing a VPN provider.
• Firefox privacy guide - Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs.
• A Better Online Experience (archive.org link, original content down) - macOS & iOS privacy configurations for email, browsing, and more.
• Google alternatives - Privacy focused alternaties to Google services.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License