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You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
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- Updated Mar 28, 2023
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Privacytools.io is of the best online websites listing privacy-related advice and app recommendations. It gets updates every month or two and emphasizes open source software and encryption.
There you can find excellent advice about how to configure the Firefox browser to minimize online tracking, recommendations for password managers, email services, chat clients, VPN services, productivity apps, operating systems, Android apps and more. This includes links to discussions about why you should be concerned about your online privacy, what threats to it there are and what you can do about them.
[Edited by JohnFastman, March 29]
You've given lots of great reviews on this site, but this one needs an update. From what I've read online sounds like the founder has gone to lala land.
His team have now migrated to @privacy-guides
Reply written Feb 26, 2022
PrivacyTools.io has been compromised. The maintainer of the site started promoting privacy abusing services and making sponsored suggestions. All the privacy-minded people and former contributors to
PrivacyTools.io migrated to a new website called privacyguides.org 
Privacy Guides and so should you. PrivacyTools.io at this point is a disgrace and should be avoided at all cost.
They could save people time by making a quick notation to the side of which services that they tout are free vs making people read descriptions. They are acting as sort of a program billboard.
Useful app discovery service
Now privacytools.io updated their homepage and seems to have closed its open-source services, and its before source code has been archived.
Didn't realise that was what happened - only just visited the site again after a long time, and just thought something was 'off'. So I did a bit of digging around and it seems the entire team has abandoned ship and set up a new service called Privacy Guides.
They explain the background here: https://twitter.com/privacy_guides
Three long threads detailing long silences - sometimes months - from the founder and difficulties working under them on their returns. I have no idea what 'the truth' is but a commenter responded that the tools founder had responded elsewhere with a Rick Astley meme.
Then to that tweet, the Privacy Tools IO guy responded with Rick Astley lyrics - sugesting either drugs, age or both.
tl;dr whatever privacytools.io was, is no longer.
Reply written Feb 26, 2022
Reason our GitHub & subreddit is gone: https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover
Reply written Sep 27, 2022
That blog post is libelous. https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/statement-regarding-privacytools/
Reply written Mar 27, 2023
It's pretty good for finding privacy focused alternatives to most apps, however it sometimes takes sponsorships thus sometimes showing not foss, but sponsorships aside, it's a very good site to find privacy focused alternatives, however it misses some good privacy focused stuff.
Useful recommendations and reviews. This and prism-break are my favorite resources for privacy-preserving alternatives