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Resources

Everything you need to become a privacy wizard. This section has two subsections: The first has links with self-explanatory titles, the second has more detailed descriptions.

Subsection 1

• Android Privacy Guide - Take Control Of Your Data (GitLab)
• DuckDuckGo's privacy newsletter
• EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense (eff.org)
• Everything You Need to Know About Password Managers
• Firefox: Privacy Related "about:config" Tweaks
• Four Methods to Create a Secure Password You'll Actually Remember
• How to create a strong password (and remember it)
• How to delete remembered passwords (WikiHow)
• How to disable Telemetry and Data Collection in Windows 10 (Winaero)
• How to permanently delete a Facebook account (Delete Facebook).
• How to permanently delete a Facebook account (WikiHow)
• HTTP vs. HTTPS: What's the Difference and Why Should You Care? (Entrepreneur)
• Linux workstation security checklist (GitHub)
• Manage Windows 10 Telemetry and Data Collection settings (The Windows Club)
• Multi-factor authentication (Wikipedia)
• Remove bloatware from Android without root (XDA)
• Spread Privacy - The Official DuckDuckGo Blog
• The what, why, and when of multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• They Track You: A website to raise awareness of online privacy (TheyTrackYou.com)
• user.js - Firefox configuration hardening (GitHub)
• What are 5-eyes, 9-eyes, and 14-eyes? (RestorePrivacy)
• What is GDPR and how will it affect you? (Outline/The Guardian)
• What is GDPR? Everything you need to know about the new EU data laws (Outline/TechRadar)
• What is Tor and should I use it?
• Why You Really Should Put Tape Over Your Webcam
• Windows 10 Privacy Guide (fdossena.com)
• 7 Reasons to Use a Third-Party DNS Service
  • Use DNSPerf to see which one is fastest for you.

Subsection 2

• AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. Used extensively to build this guide.
• block-all-google.sh is a script for blocking everything Google at the network level. This can and probably will break other alternatives that rely on Google to serve content.
• Databunker is a network-based, self-hosted, GDPR compliant, secure database for personal data or PII.
• ethical.net is a not-for-profit project building a collaborative, online directory of ethical companies of all kinds.
• Firefox Profilemaker is a tool to help you create a Firefox profile with the defaults you like.
• Fix Windows Privacy is a tool to disable privacy breaches on Windows 10.
• Framasoft is a collection of alternative software. Too many to fit elsewhere in the list.
• Go FOSS is a guide on ditching big-tech, with a focus on seven core areas.
• Hybrid Analysis a free malware analysis service for the community that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology. Powered by Falcon Sandbox, which is developed by CrowdStrike.
• Outline is an awesome tool for getting all the junk out of news articles (I've used it a few times in this guide already). Sometimes it can get around paywalls for "premium" news sites.
• PRISM Break is a guide on how to opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.
• PrivacyTools provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
• retiolus/privacysec is a collective guide built off the data of other guides, including this one, whose aim is to be translated into as many languages as possible.
• r/Privacy wiki has a lot of useful information. This guide also automatically mirrors itself to the wiki!
• r/VPN wiki to learn more about why you should consider using a VPN.
• Switching.software is a collection of ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
• VirusTotal lets you upload files and scans them against multiple antivirus programs at once. Very helpful for checking false negatives. Be aware that Alphabet Inc owns VirusTotal.
• WindowsSpyBlocker (GitHub) is a tool to block spying and tracking on Windows.