Privacy Tools

How to choose

This is the widest category in the directory: amnesic operating systems, hardened browsers, overlay networks, self-hosted payment processors, and removal tooling. The common thread is that each addresses a specific observation point, and they are not interchangeable. An operating system that forgets its session addresses device seizure; a browser addresses fingerprinting; an overlay network addresses traffic observation; a self-hosted processor keeps payment data out of third-party hands.

The practical order is risk first, tool second. The threat-model page maps common situations to categories, and each record states what the tool covers and what it does not. Open source is recorded because it makes claims inspectable rather than because it settles them, and hosted tools trade convenience for a party that holds data while self-hosted tools trade the reverse.