Threat-model-first advice from the community that succeeded PrivacyTools, so you pick tools for your actual risk rather than a vibe.
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Privacy Guides sits in Privacy & Security under Learn, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as useful and brainy.
Breach checkers, fingerprint tests, throwaway inboxes and plain-English readings of terms of service. Mildly alarming, entirely free.
Disposable inbox that self-destructs after ten minutes. Exactly what you want when a download demands an email address first.
Fingerprints your browser and compares it against a research dataset of hundreds of thousands of others. The verdict is usually: unique.
One page per leak channel — WebGL, canvas, WebRTC, DNS — each showing precisely what your browser hands over without being asked.
The EFF's test showing how uniquely identifiable your browser is from fonts, plugins and screen size alone. Most people are one in millions.
Runs a standard or extended check to reveal which servers actually saw your DNS lookups. The quickest way to catch a VPN not doing its job.
Search without the profile building, plus bang shortcuts that fire your query straight at another site. Type an exclamation and w for Wikipedia.
Search any Android app and see the tracking libraries baked into it. The results for the popular ones are routinely grim.
Type an email address and find out which breaches it turned up in. Troy Hunt's index now covers billions of leaked accounts.