privacyguides/privacyguides.org resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Privacy Guides is a non-profit, community-driven website providing impartial advice on protecting personal data from mass surveillance, with vetted recommendations for privacy-respecting tools and services. The repository contains the Markdown source of the site, built with MkDocs Material and published at privacyguides.org.

Use cases

• find privacy-respecting alternatives to mainstream apps
• learn how to protect my data from mass surveillance
• compare password managers for security and privacy
• choose a secure encrypted messaging app
• harden my browser and operating system for privacy
• find resources for privacy activism and digital rights advocacy
• stay updated on privacy and security news

When to choose

• you need trustworthy, community-reviewed recommendations for privacy tools
• you want ad-free, non-profit educational content on digital privacy
• you are building a threat model and need guidance on threat-based tool selection
• you want to contribute to or translate open-source privacy documentation

When to avoid

• you need software to install rather than advice and recommendations
• you want vendor-sponsored or commercial product comparisons
• you need compliance or legal advice rather than general privacy guidance

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

documentation static-site-generator markdown privacy security self-hosted tutorials censorship-circumvention python cross-platform privacy-guides digital-rights surveillance-resistance mkdocs-material non-profit recommendations encryption threat-modeling web-server

Member repositories

For agents

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