Free Privacy Tools
Free Privacy Tools We Recommend
You don't need to spend money to take back your privacy. These are the tools used by security researchers, journalists, and privacy professionals — all free.
🔍 Check Your Exposure
- Have I Been Pwned — Enter your email to see every data breach it's appeared in. The gold standard for breach monitoring. Free forever.
- Cover Your Tracks (EFF) — Tests how unique your browser fingerprint is and whether you're protected from tracking. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- DNS Leak Test — Check whether your VPN is actually protecting your DNS requests or leaking them to your ISP. Run the Extended Test.
- IP Leak Test — Check your IP, WebRTC, and DNS all in one place. Second opinion to complement dnsleaktest.com.
- Google Results About You — See what personal information Google has indexed about you and request removal directly.
🔒 Browsers
- Brave Browser — Built-in ad blocking, tracker blocking, and fingerprint randomization. No configuration needed. Based on Chromium so your Chrome extensions work.
- Firefox — Open source, customizable, with strong built-in tracking protection. Enable resistFingerprinting in about:config for maximum protection.
🛡️ Browser Extensions
- uBlock Origin — The best ad and tracker blocker available. Free, open source, uses minimal resources. Works in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Brave.
- Privacy Badger (EFF) — Automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Complements uBlock Origin.
🔑 Password Security
- Bitwarden — The best free password manager. Open source, independently audited, works across all devices and browsers. No reason to use anything else.
- Have I Been Pwned: Passwords — Check if a specific password has appeared in a breach. Uses k-anonymity so your password is never transmitted.
📧 Email Privacy
- ProtonMail — End-to-end encrypted email based in Switzerland. Free tier available. The standard for private email.
- SimpleLogin — Create unlimited email aliases that forward to your real inbox. Give out aliases instead of your real email address. Free tier available.
- Temp Mail — Disposable email address for one-time signups. No account required.
🌐 Search & Browsing
- DuckDuckGo — Search engine that doesn't track you or build a profile. Good results for most searches.
- Brave Search — Independent search index (not relying on Google or Bing). Completely private.
💬 Secure Messaging
- Signal — End-to-end encrypted messaging and calls. The only messaging app privacy experts recommend without caveats. Free.
📊 Check Your Credit
- Annual Credit Report — The official free credit report site mandated by federal law. One free report per year from each bureau (now weekly through 2026).
- Equifax Credit Freeze — Freeze your credit at Equifax. Free.
- Experian Credit Freeze — Freeze your credit at Experian. Free.
- TransUnion Credit Freeze — Freeze your credit at TransUnion. Free.
🗑️ Data Broker Opt-Outs
These links take you directly to the opt-out pages for the most commonly searched data broker sites:
- Spokeo Opt-Out
- Whitepages Opt-Out
- BeenVerified Opt-Out
- Intelius Opt-Out
- Radaris Opt-Out (create free account → manage information)
- TruthFinder Opt-Out
- FastPeopleSearch Opt-Out
Doing all of these manually is a good start but takes hours and needs to be repeated quarterly. Our Done-For-You Privacy Removal service handles all opt-outs across 40+ brokers on a recurring basis.
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