Privacy Guides Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Suggestion: techies unite

  Are you thinking about making a centralized area to share resources? I think something similar to how privacyguides.org organizes stuff would work well. Source: over 3 years ago

• Is it still safe to download Firefox via Mozilla FTP?

  As recommended by privacyguides.org, I'm trying to avoid that download token from the main link. I'm jw if those files on the FTP are just as safe/secure & all the same w/o the token still. Also, will I get one from future updates regardless? Source: over 3 years ago

• What is the best browser in terms of securiry/privacy? And why?

  Right, that's why I don't understand why Brave is recommended by privacyguides.org or pivacaytools.io. Source: over 3 years ago

• The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web

  The correct site is https://privacyguides.org The former team left Privacy Tools and that is now just arbitrary recommendations by one guy who mostly spruiks cryptocurrency bullshit. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• I'm giving a presentation in 1 month on everyday privacy and security. What's one piece of advice you'd give to the average person?

  Good new! If you're giving a whole presentation, considered starting where the PG team recommends average ppl start, "threat modeling" and point them to the excellent privacyguides.org website for further action:. Source: over 3 years ago

• Which Firefox extensions do you guys use?

  You can follow privacyguides.org which is this subreddit sites for recommendations and base knowledge. Source: over 3 years ago

• Any encrypted note taking app that accepts IMAGES embedded in the body of the notes?

  Side note: I'd really love to get Skiff Pages on privacyguides.org! Source: over 3 years ago

• PWM: Bitwarden vs 1Password

  1P also does things like universal autofill (on Mac, at least) which is super convenient when you're running multiple browsers and don't like installing extensions. The native 1P clients can do anything the web client can do, while Bitwarden requires you to use the web vault if you need to import/export or do some other specific things (can't remember, but there's some info on that in privacyguides.org). Source: over 3 years ago

• Seriously, look it up. It's madness.

  I second this. You might also want to check out https://privacyguides.org. Source: over 3 years ago

• foss TikTok client?

  Please always try and check PrivacyGuides.org first before asking :). Source: over 3 years ago

• Best Simple Security Practices for Protecting Self and Tendies - Final Repost for Visibility!

  *For more security tools and practices, head over to [r / privacytoolsIO] or privacytools.io (now deprecated) [r / PrivacyGuides or PrivacyGuides.org.*. Source: over 3 years ago

• A perfect balance between privacy and usability

  Thank you, OP, for this post, too many people enter the privacy space and can immediately get overwhelmed and just give up (literally me). It's important to make a threat model, by asking yourself these 5 questions (from privacyguides.org). Source: over 3 years ago

• Go FOSS: Information is power

  This looks very similar to https://privacyguides.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• What’s the best authentication app?

  Privacy Guides, the site this subreddit is dedicated to, has a page on multi-factor authentication here. We get a high volume of posts asking for information readily available on our site. Please check there first. If in doubt: privacyguides.org. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Drag and Drop Not Working In Linux on Chromebooks. Any Ideas?

  Hi, I learned about this project on privacyguides.org and have been trying to get it to work for a few days without success. My case is admittedly an outlier, but I thought someone might have an idea on a fix or workaround to try. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Messengers aren't safe.

  Take a look at the privacy and PrivacyGuides subreddit and the https://privacyguides.org site. There are many things one can do. Source: almost 4 years ago

• What are some other online resources I can use?

  The only website I know that's dedicated to privacy is privacyguides.org. Other than that it's been online searches and reading random articles and websites trying to figure out if it's genuine or paid, and looking at channels like Techlore, All Things Secured, etc. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Email that doesn't require phone verification?

  You might find the e-mail provider recommendations from the privacyguides.org site related to this subreddit helpful: https://www.privacyguides.org/email/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Where can I start researching to browse the internet anonymously?

  Https://privacyguides.org is a good place to learn about some of this stuff. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Secure mobile phone

  For more suggestions look on the privacyguides.org website. Source: almost 4 years ago

• My "Updated list" of privacy friendly apps & services to ditch big tech companies(December Update)

  I came to make a snarky rude comment like, "Also check out a little website called privacyguides.org" ;P but you've obviously put work into the list and it is well organized. Source: almost 4 years ago