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Looking for alternatives to privacy-invasive apps you use everyday? Do you just want to know all the details behind your favorite privacy tools? Privacy Guides Reviews is the place to find all that and more. This is your one stop to find the latest advice and recommendations on things we use every day directly from Privacy Guides contributors.

May 13, 2025
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KeePassium Review: A Flexible Password Manager for iOS and macOS

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If you have been looking for a password manager giving you full control over your data, KeePassium is a fantastic option. The application available for iOS and macOS keeps your password database offline by default. KeePassium still offers synchronization and backup options, but allows you to choose which storage provider to trust with your database, and change it whenever you want.

February 7, 2025
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CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs

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If you have been thinking about migrating to a privacy-focused replacement to Google Docs, now is the time. Google products, as convenient and popular as they might be, are atrocious for data privacy (not to mention ethics).

February 3, 2025
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EasyOptOuts Review & Real-World Test

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EasyOptOuts.com is a $19.99/year people-search site removal service which will search a number of different data broker sites and automatically submit opt-out requests on your behalf. They will perform the first search and removal process immediately, and then re-run the process every 4 months in case your data shows up on new sites over time.

September 18, 2024
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Onion Browser Review: Tor on iOS

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Search the App Store for "Tor Browser" and you'll be flooded with a variety of ways to connect to the Tor network from your iPhone. However, there's only one solution officially endorsed by the Tor Project themselves: Onion Browser.

September 8, 2024
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Proton Wallet Review: Is Proton Losing Touch?

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Proton, the Swiss creators of privacy-focused products like Proton Mail and Proton VPN, recently released the latest product in their ever-growing lineup: Proton Wallet. Announced at the end of July 2024, it promotes itself as "an easy-to-use, self-custodial" Bitcoin wallet that will ostensibly make financial freedom more attainable for everyone.

December 1, 2021
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Firefox Privacy: 2021 Update

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A lot changed between 2019 and now, not least with regard to Firefox. Since our last post, Mozilla has improved privacy with Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP). Earlier this year Mozilla introduced Total Cookie Protection (Dynamic First Party Isolation dFPI). This was then further tightened with Enhanced Cookie Clearing. We’re also looking very forward to Site Isolation (code named Fission) being enabled by default in the coming releases.

November 9, 2019
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Firefox Privacy: Tips and Tricks for Better Browsing

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Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around, and for good reason. It's fast, secure, open-source, and it's backed by an organization that actually respects your privacy. Unlike many other Chrome alternatives and forks, it has a massive development team behind it that publishes new updates on a constant, regular basis. Regular updates don't only mean shiny new features, it means you'll also receive security updates that will keep you protected as you browse the web.