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The open content licensing sites closest to Creative Commons, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. Creative Commons itself loads 1 tracker.

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    Open Source Initiative opensource.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

    The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

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    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

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    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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    American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org Top 10K English No trackers

    American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

    The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

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    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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    Software Freedom Conservancy sfconservancy.org English No trackers

    Software Freedom Conservancy

    The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.

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    Sourceware sourceware.org English No trackers

    sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!

    Sourceware free software

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    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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    Open Source Pledge opensourcepledge.com English No trackers

    Open Source Pledge

    Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.

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    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

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    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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    RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English No trackers

    RFC Editor

    The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.

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    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

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    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Let's Encrypt

    Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.

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    Debian debian.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Debian -- The Universal Operating System

    Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

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    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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    The Unicode Standard unicode.org Top 10K No trackers

    Index

    computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems

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    NTPsec ntpsec.org English No trackers

    Welcome to NTPsec

    implementation of Network Time Protocol

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