Security What are security, privacy, and anonymity? We may think that we know the differences between privacy, security and anonymity, however we often mix them up. People will often criticize a product or service as “not private”
Press Release Introducing our PeerTube Instance Since April 2019, one of the primary goals of PrivacyTools has been to promote the creation and use of decentralized and federated networks to replace the centralized giants like Google
Security Protecting Your Privacy With a Virtual Machine While Using Zoom With the COVID-19 outbreak keeping many at home, Zoom has seen a huge increase in use with schools and businesses. But with growing privacy and security concerns, how can you stay safe?
Opinion US Government Wages War on Encryption As the world finds itself preoccupied with COVID-19, the United States government is trying to pass a law to ban encryption. It's called the EARN IT act, and it has potentially devastating repercussions for encryption and companies that use it.
Instant Messengers Choosing the Right Messenger One of the most common questions users have when it comes to privacy is about messaging services. It seems almost all of them mention some level of privacy or encryption
Privacy The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites There's a massive problem in the privacy world. Websites, social media accounts, and other platforms are constantly popping up out of nowhere, telling you to buy The Greatest Service Ever
Delisting Cutting the Wire It has recently come to the attention of the PrivacyTools team that Wire, the popular end-to-end encryption messaging platform had been sold or moved to a US company. After a
Updates Delisting Startpage.com May 3rd, 2020 Update: Startpage has answered all of our questions for them and has clarified their policies. We have decided to relist them on PrivacyTools, and you can read
Guides Firefox Privacy: Tips and Tricks for Better Browsing Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around, and for good reason. It's fast, secure, open-source, and it's backed by an organization that actually respects your privacy.
VPN Choosing a VPN So you know what a VPN is, but there are so many options to choose from! Well before we dive into this, let's get one thing off the bat: Avoid
VPN Understanding VPNs A VPN—or Virtual Private Network—is a tool that secures your internet connection from attackers on your network. Before I explain how that all works, let's talk about the
Privacy Adding Custom DNS over HTTPS Resolvers to DNSCloak DNSCloak is an open-source DNSCrypt and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) client for iOS, which gives users the ability to encrypt their DNS requests through the use of an on-device VPN
Guides Self-hosting a Shadowsocks VPN with Outline Outline is a suite of open-source software developed for journalists to safely access their network and the internet while traveling in countries where their activities may be monitored or censored.
Updates Tor on privacytools.io We're excited to announce the launch of Tor connectivity to the PrivacyTools.io homepage, and we hope to get Tor working on the rest of our services as soon as possible.
