fsf.org

fsf.org

Who runs fsf.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest free software advocacy alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of gnu.org
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Software Freedom Conservancy

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs fsf.org

fsf.org

Wikidata: organization supporting the free software movement

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
gnu.org Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What fsf.org tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

10 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to fsf.org

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to fsf.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than fsf.orgNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    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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  2. 02
    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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  3. 03

    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc

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  4. 04
    Creative Commons creativecommons.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons

    family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

    Compare Creative Commons with fsf.org →
  5. 05
    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.

    Compare American Civil Liberties Union with fsf.org →
  6. 06
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  7. 07
    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 […]

    Compare Fight for the Future with fsf.org →
  8. 08
    Linux Foundation linuxfoundation.org 2 trackers

    Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust

    Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.

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  9. 09
    Access Now accessnow.org English 1 tracker

    Access Now - Access Now

    Digital rightsfor everyone. Derechos digitalespara todas. .الحقوق الرقمية للجميع Droits numériquespour tous. Access Now defends and extends the digital

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  10. 10
    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.

    Compare Privacy Guides with fsf.org →
  11. 11
    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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  12. 12
    Sourceware sourceware.org English No trackers

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

    Sourceware free software

    Compare Sourceware with fsf.org →
  13. 13
    Cloud Native Computing Foundation cncf.io English 2 trackers

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    CNCF is the vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, dedicated to making cloud native ubiquitous.

    Compare Cloud Native Computing Foundation with fsf.org →
  14. 14
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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  15. 15
    Human Rights Foundation hrf.org English 3 trackers

    Homepage - Human Rights Foundation

    More than half of the world lives under tyranny.Tyranny is the root of poverty, war, and torture.We’re uniting the world to stand against tyranny.

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  16. 16

    American private research institute (1994-)

    Compare Electronic Privacy Information Center with fsf.org →
  17. 17
    OWASP owasp.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OWASP Foundation - The Open Source Foundation for Application Security

    OWASP is the nonprofit behind the Top 10, ASVS, ZAP, and hundreds more free application security projects. Explore our tools, standards, local chapters, global events, and news from a community of 250+ chapters worldwide.

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  18. 18
    Open Source Security Foundation openssf.org English 2 trackers

    Open Source Security Foundation – Linux Foundation Projects

    industry forum for the improvement of the security of open source software

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  19. 19
    Digitalcourage digitalcourage.de German No trackers

    Digitalcourage

    Digitalcourage engagiert sich seit 1987 für eine lebenswerte Welt im digitalen Zeitalter

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  20. 20
    Wikimedia wikimedia.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Wikimedia

    The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles fsf.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones fsf.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what fsf.org adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
27 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to fsf.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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