**Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself from mass surveillance programs and corporate trackers online.**

I coordinate our volunteer team of writers and editors for Privacy Guides, and host and manage our various online community platforms. I've written 200+ updates and reviewed 180+ Pull Requests submitted by others to the open-source Privacy Guides website on GitHub.

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**Privacy Guides** is a socially motivated website that provides [information](https://www.privacyguides.org/kb) for protecting your data security and privacy. Our mission is to inform the public about the value of digital privacy, and global government initiatives which aim to monitor your online activity. We are a non-profit collective operated entirely by volunteer [team members](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/g/team) and contributors. Our website is free of advertisements and not affiliated with any of the listed providers.

> To find \[privacy-focused alternative\] apps, check out sites like Good Reports and **Privacy Guides**, which list privacy-focused apps in a variety of categories, notably including email providers (usually on paid plans) that aren’t run by the big tech companies.

— [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/online-security-social-media-privacy/)

> If you're looking for a new VPN, you can go to the discount code of just about any podcast. If you are looking for a **good** VPN, you need professional help. The same goes for email clients, browsers, operating systems and password managers. How do you know which of these is the best, most privacy-friendly option? For that there is **Privacy Guides**, a platform on which a number of volunteers search day in, day out for the best privacy-friendly tools to use on the internet.

— [Tweakers.net](https://tweakers.net/reviews/10568/op-zoek-naar-privacyvriendelijke-tools-niek-de-wilde-van-privacy-guides.html) \[Translated from Dutch\]

Also featured on: [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/), [Wirecutter](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/practical-guide-to-securing-windows-pc/) \[[2](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/practical-guide-to-securing-your-mac/)\], [NPO Radio 1](https://www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/binnenland/8eaff3a2-8b29-4f63-9b74-36d2b28b1fe1/ooit-online-eens-wat-doms-geplaatst-ga-jezelf-eens-googlen-en-kijk-dan-wat-je-tegenkomt), and [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-mozilla-2022/).

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Niek de Wilde (a fellow Privacy Guides contributor) and I spoke with Gabriel Custodiet of Watchman Privacy about Privacy Guides, staying safe online, and other privacy-related topics.

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Techlore Talks is a regular podcast series where we discuss privacy, security, and technology in free-form discussions.

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I'm creating educational resources for average people to understand the importance of privacy and security on the internet, and take back control over their digital lives.

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I founded Privacy Guides, a free online resource for learning about digital privacy and security, and a thriving online community for receiving and sharing infosec advice.

I co-host the Techlore Talks podcast, contribute to various projects we're working on for the channel, and operate the Techlore online discussion forum.

Jonah Aragon

2023