Awesome Privacy

Limiting personal data leaks on the internet

Awesome Privacy

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

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

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