Privacy-Focused Alternatives
(Note: I did not make this list. But I do want it to have a stable home that others can hard-link too. I have also added my own tools to it. I have found it in multiple spots, I am uncertain where it first originated from.)
This is a follow-up to my other article: Massive List of Made-In-America Shopping Alternatives. We need to stop using the enemy’s tools and to start protecting our privacy far better. This list should aid with that objective.
Privacy Options
Pastebins & Collaboration
- https://privatebin.info/directory/
- https://pad.snopyta.org/
- (Decentralized) https://hardbin.com/
- (E2E) https://www.skiff.org/
- https://excalidraw.com/
- https://poll.snopyta.org/
- https://etherpad.snopyta.org/
- https://ethercalc.snopyta.org/
Browsers (Desktop)
- https://brave.com/download/
- https://iridiumbrowser.de/
- https://www.bromite.org/
- https://www.torproject.org/
- https://www.waterfox.net/
- https://beakerbrowser.com/ (Experimental)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Browsers (Mobile)
Extensions
- https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
- https://decentraleyes.org/
- https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- https://snowflake.torproject.org/
- https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
- https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/418162-redirect-twitter-to-nitter
- https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
- https://almonit.com/#/extension/
Mapping
Artificial Intelligence
- (Assistant) https://mycroft.ai/
- (Assistant) https://gladysassistant.com/
- (Translation) https://www.deepl.com/translator
Search Engines
- https://search.brave.com/
- https://presearch.org
- https://duckduckgo.com/
- https://www.startpage.com/sp/search
- https://qwant.com/
- https://swisscows.com/
- https://metager.org/
- https://peekier.com/
- https://www.mojeek.com/
- https://searx.space/
- https://www.wolframalpha.com/
- (Unique) https://apse.io/
- https://criptext.com
- https://tutanota.com/
- https://protonmail.com/
- https://librem.one/
- https://mailbox.org/en/
- https://mailfence.com/
- https://privatemail.com
- https://hushmail.com
- https://digitalsafe.com/
- https://secureswissdata.com/
- https://kolabnow.com/
- (Utility) https://leavemealone.app/r/J8co977PHx
- (Utility) https://lavabit.com
- (Temp) https://mailnesia.com/
- (Temp) https://www.guerrillamail.com/
- (Temp) https://10minutemail.com/
Messengers
- https://getsession.org/ (Decentralized)
- https://iris.to/ (Decentralized)
- https://briarproject.org/ (Decentralized)
- https://teleguard.com/en/ (Swiss)
- https://wire.com/en/ (Open Source)
- https://ricochet.im/ (Anonymous Tor)
- https://berty.tech/ (Pre-Alpha, Distributed)
- https://telegram.org/
- https://signal.org/en/
- (Utility) https://silence.im/
Discord Replacements
- (Matrix) https://element.io/
- (Matrix) https://www.dittochat.org/
- https://mattermost.com/
- https://getaether.net/ (Decentralized)
- https://cabal.chat/ (Alpha, Distributed)
- https://rocket.chat/
Voice Chat
Video Chat
- https://talk.snopyta.org/
- https://meething.space/
- https://librem.one/
- https://jami.net/
- (Self Host) https://jitsi.org/
Social Media
- https://patriots.win/
- https://communities.win/
- https://gab.com/
- https://minds.com/
- https://fediverse.party/
Subvert Mainstream Social
- https://nitter.snopyta.org/
- https://bibliogram.snopyta.org/
- https://invidious.snopyta.org/
- (Fuzzing) https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
- (Fuzzing) https://fakepersongenerator.com/
- (Fuzzing) https://boredhumans.com/faces.php
- (Software) https://freetubeapp.io/
- (Directory) https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md
- (Directory) https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
- (Directory) https://instances.invidio.us/
Video Hosting
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://bitchute.com/
- https://rumble.com/
- (Utility) https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
File Sharing
- (HK/Taiwan) https://catbox.moe/
- https://syncthing.net/
- https://onionshare.org/
- https://www.swisstransfer.com/en
- https://blackhole.run/
- https://freenetproject.org/
- https://www.sparkleshare.org/
Cloud Suites
- https://nextcloud.com/
- https://owncloud.com/
- https://twake.app/
- https://sandstorm.io/install (Linux)
- https://personal.onlyoffice.com/
Cloud Storage
- (Decentralized) https://siasky.net/
- (Decentralized) https://www.eternum.io/
- (P2P) https://www.resilio.com/
- https://www.sync.com/
- (Utility) https://cryptomator.org/
- (Self Host) https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
Media Editing
- (Suite) https://www.libreoffice.org/
- (Images) https://inkscape.org/
- (Images) https://www.gimp.org/
- (Video) https://www.blender.org/
Payments
Crypto Assets
Crypto Tools
- https://electrum.org/ (Wallet)
- https://bisq.network/ (Exchange)
- https://openbazaar.org/ (Marketplace)
Electronics Hardware
Operating Systems (Desktop)
- https://pop.system76.com/ (Daily Use)
- https://manjaro.org/ (Daily Use)
- https://linuxmint.com/ (Daily Use)
- https://www.qubes-os.org/ (Privacy, Security)
- https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo
- https://www.whonix.org/ (Privacy, Security)
- https://tails.boum.org/ (Privacy, Security)
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ (Virtualization)
- https://www.kali.org/ (Security)
Operating Systems (Mobile)
- https://sailfishos.org/
- https://www.lineageos.org/
- https://grapheneos.org/
- https://copperhead.co/android/
- https://ubuntu-touch.io/get-ubuntu-touch
- https://e.foundation/
VPN
- https://mullvad.net/en/
- https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
- https://www.expressvpn.com/
- https://librem.one/
- https://protonvpn.com/
- https://www.ivpn.net/
- https://www.wireguard.com/ (Advanced)
- https://openvpn.net/ (Advanced)
DNS
- https://www.privacytools.io/providers/dns/
- https://www.opennic.org/
- (Registrar) https://unstoppabledomains.com/
- (Registrar) https://www.epik.com/
Web Hosting
- (Provider) https://www.bahnhof.net/
- (Provider) https://njal.la/
- (Provider) https://uberspace.de/en/
- (Provider) https://pages.cloudflare.com/
- (Provider) https://zeronet.io/
- (Utility) https://ubos.net/
- (Service) https://unstoppabledomains.com/
- (Service) https://lokinet.org/
Site Archiving
- https://archivebox.io/ (Self Hosted)
- https://archive.vn/
- https://archive.is/
- https://mastodon.jp/
- https://archive.org/web/
- https://perma.cc/
Password Managers
- bitwarden
- Keepass
Stuff for Developers
- https://joinpeertube.org/ (Video Hosting)
- https://gun.eco/ (Decentralization Stack)
- https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd
- (Analytics) https://matomo.org/
- (Analytics) https://www.offen.dev/
- (Analytics) https://plausible.io/
- (Analytics) https://simpleanalytics.com/
- (Analytics) https://usefathom.com/
- https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb
- https://vac.dev/ (P2P Messaging Stack)
- https://github.com/unsetbit/p (P2P Library)
- https://tardigrade.io/ (S3 Alternative)
- (IPFS GUI) https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-gui
- https://solidproject.org/ (Data Sovereignty)
- https://iop.global/ (Data Sovereignty)
- https://github.com/omgbbqhaxx/cloudbankproject
- https://fediverse.party/
- (P2P) https://github.com/mempko/firestr
- https://www.docker.com/ (Containerization)
- https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge/ (FOSS Video)
- https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
- https://jamstack.org/
- https://gnunet.org/en/
- https://securedrop.org/ (Whistleblower)
- https://www.globaleaks.org/ (Whistleblower)
- https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucomm/
- https://mailcow.email/
- https://mailinabox.email/
- https://jio.nexedi.com/
- https://www.zerotier.com/
- https://urbit.org/
- https://sporestack.com/
- https://www.pjon.org/
- https://oxen.io/
- https://peerlinks.io/
- https://keywordtool.io/
- (Maps) https://openmaptiles.org/
- (Maps) https://leafletjs.com/
- (ML) https://openml.org/
- (ML) https://www.h1st.ai/
- (Payments) https://killbill.io/
- (Payments) https://recurly.com/
- (Forums) https://www.discourse.org/
- (IPFS) https://gitlab.com/stavros/IPFessay
OSINT
- (Deadman) https://killcord.io/
- (Toolkit) https://osintframework.com/
- https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot?ref=d
- (Search) https://tineye.com/
- (Search) https://www.shodan.io/
- (Search) https://searchcode.com/
- (Search) https://publicwww.com/
- (Search) https://www.searchmy.bio/
- (Search) https://haveibeenpwned.com/
- https://www.elevenpaths.com/innovation-labs/tools/foca
- https://github.com/saeeddhqan/Maryam
- https://github.com/laramies/metagoofil
- https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester
- https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng
- https://github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r
- https://github.com/TheRook/subbrute
- https://www.maltego.com/
- https://spatulah.com/
- https://dnslytics.com/
- https://viewdns.info/
- https://nuwber.com/
- https://freecarrierlookup.com/
- https://www.whocalledme.com/choose-your-country
- https://www.familytreenow.com/
- https://www.voilanorbert.com/
- https://github.com/ehmorris/High-Resolution-Downloader-For-Instagram
- https://whosintown.app/
- https://letsenhance.io/
- https://photoscissors.com/
- http://fotoforensics.com/
- https://openstreetcam.org/
- https://wikiamapia.org
- https://openstreetmap.org
- https://zoom.earth
- https://analyzeid.com/
- https://www.copyscape.com/
- https://www.corporationwiki.com/
- https://opencorporates.com/
- https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
- https://weverify.eu/
- http://exifdata.com/
- http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
- http://metapicz.com/
- https://github.com/steven2358/reveye
- https://www.diffchecker.com/image-diff/
- http://www.cachedpages.com/
- https://swap.stanford.edu/
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/
- http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/
- http://www.geonames.org/
- https://pulsedive.com
- (SKang) https://www.adsbexchange.com/
- (SKang) https://www.planespotters.net/
- (SKang) https://www.flightradar24.com/
- (SKang) https://www.liveatc.net/
- (SKang) https://flightaware.com/
- (Tutorial) https://www.aware-online.com/en/osint-tutorials/save-a-facebook-video/
- (Tutorial) https://securitytrails.com/blog/google-hacking-techniques
- https://youtube-dl.org/
Let me know if any should be removed or if there are any others that should be included.
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