This guide will mainly go over all privacy friendly software for a multitude of applications e.g. Email, Messaging, etc, etc. I will also add a section at the bottom detailing extra's which will go into other stuff.
Service | Software | Privacy Rating | Link |
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Messaging | Session | 8/10 | Why A private messaging app which would be a 9/10, however, they haven't implemented PFS and they are based in australia. | Link |
Mail2tor | 10/10 | Why An anonymous email service which claims to collect nothing on user's, plus on works through TOR adding an additional layer of privacy. | Link | |
Burner Email | Temp-Mail | 9/10 | Why temp-mail is a very good an anonymous service, however, they still collect the analytics of users who visit there site. | Link |
Temporary Phonenumber | receive-smss | 9/10 | Why receive-smss is an anonymous service, however, like temp-mail they also collect the analytics of users who visit there site. | Link |
VPN | Mullvad VPN | 10/10 | Why Mullvad VPN is by far the best VPN for privacy, they offer multiple payment methods (including crypto) and hold 0 data on there user's. | Link |
Browser | TOR Browser | 8/10 | Why The TOR browser is possibly the most anonymous way to browse the internet, however, it has become less secure (we have seen this when feds deanonymized German TOR users). Although, in general you should be fine. | Link |
File Hosting (no account) | qu.ax | 8/10 | Why qu.ax is an anonymous file upload service which allows anyone to upload any file (temporarily or permenantly) up to 256mb. | Link |
File Hosting (account) | mega.nz | 8/10 | Why Mega.nz is a secure and safe solution to store your files with mega using zero-knowledge encryption, so that only you can access them. | Link | Crypto | Monero | 10/10 | Why Monero is the most private crypto currency out there, plus currently it is untraceable (not accounting for opsec mistakes) | Link | Pastebin | Privatebin | 9/10 | Why PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Also Privatebin also uses AES256 encryption to encrpyt your data. | Link |