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Guard Your Privacy Fortress - Discover the Ultimate List of Privacy Alternatives & Tools!

Published: at 10:32 PM

Privacy is a fundamental human right that is increasingly under threat in our digital age. As artificial intelligence and data collection become more pervasive, we must be vigilant about protecting our personal information. Proprietary software can compromise our personal data. There are ethical, open-source alternatives that respect privacy. Surveillance capitalism exploits our freedom. We can take a stand by supporting privacy-focused companies. With enough demand, the market will shift. Our rights should be respected, not exploited. To learn more about why privacy matters, please click here.

You can’t trust Big Tech.

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Search Engines:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Browsers:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Browser Extensions:

Redirect Bypass:

DNS:

⚠️ Snoops can spy on normal DNS traffic. Stay secure with DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS.

Firewall:

VPN:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Further check out the Techlore VPN Guide.

Email:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Email Alias:

Email Clients:

Password Managers:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Authenticator Apps

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Decentralised Networks:

YouTube

⚠️ You are the product:

YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways.

🔏 Alternatives:

A video hosting platform, that was founded in 2017 to allow uploaders to avoid content rules enforced on other platforms, such as YouTube

🔏 YT Proxies:

Spotify:

Social Networks

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Twitter (X)

Reddit

Instagram

⚠️ You are the product:

Don’t use Instagram (or at least the official client). Instagram is a very privacy-invasive app with biased results and feeds based on user profiles, it is also used as a manipulation tool and has a lot of censorship going against free speech. Lastly, it has an addictive and toxic UI design.

🔏 Alternatives:

Pixelfed - Decentralized, federated and Open Source alternative to Instagram with posts, videos, stories, tags, etc.

Encrypted Messengers

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

File Sharing/Upload:

System Cleaner:

Torrent Clients:

2-Factor Authentication:

⚠️ Avoid using apps that won’t let you export your keys easily.

🔏 Alternatives:

File Encryption:

Team Collaboration Platforms:

Now more than ever we are relying on software to help with team collaboration. Unfortunately many popular options, such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google for Work and Discord all come with some serious privacy implications.

Digital Notes:

Video Conference Calls:

With the many, many security issues with Zoom, and other mainstream it becomes clear that a better, more private and secure alternative is required. As with other categories, the “best video calling app” will be different for each of us, depending on the ratio of performance + features to security + privacy required in your situation.

PC / MacOS

Avoid

Instead use

GNU/Linux

GNU/Linux is a family of free (as in freedom and as in free beer) and open source Operating Systems mostly developed by the community. If you don’t know where to start these are good options for begginers:

Office

Avoid

Instead use

Podcast:

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

Media Streaming Platforms

⚠️ You are the product:

🔏 Alternatives:

You can find instructions on how to set up it here.

Maps and Navigation

Avoid

🔏 Alternatives:

Translate

Analytics:

Avoid any analytics service that comes from Google, Facebook, Microsoft or any private service. These kind of analytics hurt user privacy.

🔏 Alternatives:

Android App Store:

Avoid

Instead use

Alternative Google Play Store clients

IDEs:

🔏 Alternatives:

Avoid

Instead use

Scan Files:

News Readers:

Graphics:

Video Editor:

Temp Email Sites

Browser Tools

For further check out: https://security-list.js.org/#/ https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy https://awesome-privacy.xyz/#/ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/