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You are being monitored.

No, it's not 1984. Yes, it is rather worrying. It's a fact. But the good news is you can do some things to try to avoid that. This is what this website is for, we've compiled for you all the best privacy-centric solutions so you can enjoy the internet more freely.

Start discovering great alternatives to your usual data-hungry services in the Alternatives section

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You can also read exclusive in-depth articles in the Articles section

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First steps
  1. Quit Google

    2. — that means Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, YouTube, Maps, Waze, Android, Chrome...

  2. Quit Facebook

    3. — which includes Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, Oculus...

  3. Quit Amazon

    4. — along with Prime Videos, Audible, Amazon Web Storage...

  4. Quit Twitter

    5. — but also Periscope, TweetDeck...

  5. Quit Microsoft

    6. — including Windows, Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint), Edge, Xbox...

A few numbers :

Google trackers are present on 80% of the web traffic.


That is more than the next 4 biggest trackers combined, which causes centralisation problems.

The next 4 are Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft.


As of 2018, they respectively detained 25%, 19%, 9% and 9% of global tracker traffic.

473 companies track more than 0.1% of the web traffic each.


For the most part, you've never even heard of them but they most likely have heard about you.

1903

out of 6000 top websites have
more than 10 trackers per page.

13MB

of data per page load on average
required by trackers
Source : WhoTracks.me

A few good organisations :

Freedom of Press Foundation The Freedom of Press Foundation is an international non-profit organisation that fights for free speech and the freedom of press.
Its board of directors includes Daniel Ellsberg, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Xeni Jardin and Edward Snowden.
Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a US-based international non-profit digital rights organisation.
They have been fighting since July 1990 for Internet civil liberties to expose government abuses, defend individuals against abusive legal threats but also new technologies.
Privacy international Privacy International is a UK-based registered charity which has been engaged since 1990 for the right to privacy all over the world.
Its current executive director, since 2012, is Dr Gus Hosein.
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