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Privacy Guides
Who runs Privacy Guides, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital privacy advocacy alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Measured from Privacy Guides’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Privacy Guides01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Privacy Guides
Privacy Guides privacyguides.org
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.
Wikidata: tech collective
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Privacy Guides 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.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Privacy Guides’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Privacy Guides
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Privacy Guides, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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 […]
Very close - 02
Access Now - Access Now
Digital rightsfor everyone. Derechos digitalespara todas. .الحقوق الرقمية للجميع Droits numériquespour tous. Access Now defends and extends the digital
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
Gapminder
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Very close - 05
Homepage | CNIL
national French data protection authority
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OAIC
We promote and uphold your rights to access government-held information and have your personal information protected
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 08
KFF - The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.
KFF is the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. Our mission is to serve as a nonpartisan source of information for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 11
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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Avaaz - The World in Action
Avaaz is the campaigning community bringing people-powered politics to decision making worldwide.
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BleepingComputer | Cybersecurity, Technology News and Support
BleepingComputer is a premier destination for cybersecurity news for over 20 years, delivering breaking stories on the latest hacks, malware threats, and how to protect your devices.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
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The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
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Proton: Privacy by default
Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.
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Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
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Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
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Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Privacy Guides’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Privacy Guides uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Privacy Guides 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 · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Privacy Guides’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
Built with
- CMS
- Ghost meta generator: Ghost 6.68
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/ghost/portal@~2.71/umd/portal.min.js
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:198.98.54.105 a:mail.triplebit.net a:mail.jonaharagon.net …
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:198.98.54.105 a:mail.triplebit.net a:mail.jonaharagon.net …
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS irena.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=reMNo8M9JTfkfh56duY0AtgyHhpqMGW3h0FUB8gcpVo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=1ytdl7csfz94evp7qzvqy3e00x0udf
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on privacyguides.org 10/20
- PHP · not on privacyguides.org 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on privacyguides.org 8/20
- WordPress · not on privacyguides.org 7/20
- jQuery · not on privacyguides.org 7/20
- nginx · not on privacyguides.org 6/20
- Atlassian · not on privacyguides.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on privacyguides.org 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Apple Business · not on privacyguides.org 4/20
- SendGrid · not on privacyguides.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on privacyguides.org 3/20