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Privacy Guides

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Privacy Guides is a socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy. Their mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • US flagUnited States

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  • Online
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  1.  Privacy focused

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  1.  App Discovery
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Content Discovery
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Crowdsourced
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No registration required

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    US flagPrivacy Guides
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6 (20 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    63 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • Hebrew
    • Dutch
    • Spanish
    • Italian
    • Russian
    • Chinese

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GitHub repository

  •  3,324 Stars
  •  234 Forks
  •  48 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Privacy Guides, and it has gotten 112 likes

Privacy Guides was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Oct 5, 2021 and this page was last updated Apr 19, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
bchpls
Jan 11, 2023
10

So basically Privacy Guides is the site that every active former contributor of privacytools.io migrated to after conflict with privacytools.io site maintainer who sold his soul to the devil and started promoting services which he was paid for promoting. Most of those services are in fact the very antithesis of a privacy tool, for example privacytools.io started promoting NorthVPN which is famous for spying on their customers.

Alternative Software
Mar 28, 2025
0

Privacy Guides has a great collection of guides and privacy-friendly tools. I found many of the privacy-respecting apps that I use now on Privacy Guides. No sponsorships or advertising.

Asumeh
Dec 2, 2024
0

Privacy Guides is very in-depth on making the most of achieving a digital life where no Big Tech or data brokers can get a hold of your data. They also come with a very helpful forum that discusses potential apps and their own insights on them; you might learn a thing or two from them!

Mr. Anon
Jul 29, 2024
1

Helpful. Learned some things in the past upon reading all their documentation.

Mark
Jul 29, 2024
0

it really goes in depth about privacy and security

Shoji
Jun 27, 2024
0

offer accurate privacy tool information without any misleading "ads"

What is Privacy Guides?

Privacy Guides is a socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy. Their mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. We are a non-profit collective operated entirely by volunteer team members and contributors. The website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.

Privacy Guides was launched in September 2021 as a continuation of the defunct "PrivacyTools" open-source educational project. They recognized the importance of independent, criteria-focused product recommendations and general knowledge in the privacy space, which is why the Privacy Guides needed to preserve the work that had been created by so many contributors since 2015 and make sure that information had a stable home on the web indefinitely.

In 2022, they completed the transition of the main website framework's from Jekyll to MkDocs, using the mkdocs-material documentation software. This change made open-source contributions to the site significantly easier for outsiders, because instead of needing to know complicated syntax to write posts effectively, contributing is now as easy as writing a standard Markdown document.

They additionally launched a new discussion forum at discuss.privacyguides.net as a community platform to share ideas and ask questions about the project. This augments the existing community on Matrix, and replaced their previous GitHub Discussions platform, decreasing their reliance on proprietary discussion platforms.

So far in 2023, Privacy Guides has launched international translations of the website in French, Hebrew, and Dutch, with more languages on the way, made possible by their translation team on Crowdin. They plan to continue carrying forward their mission of outreach and education, and finding ways to more clearly highlight the dangers of a lack of privacy awareness in the modern digital age, and the prevalence and harms of security breaches across the technology industry.

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