description: Privacy Guides ist eine sozial motivierte Website, die Informationen zum Schutz der eigenen Datensicherheit und Privatsphäre bereitstellt.
**Privacy Guides** ist eine sozial motivierte Website, die [Informationen](/kb) zum Schutz der eigenen Datensicherheit und Privatsphäre bereitstellt. Wir sind ein gemeinnütziges Kollektiv, welches ausschließlich von freiwilligen [Teammitgliedern](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/g/team) und Mitwirkenden betrieben wird. Unsere Website ist frei von Werbung und steht in keiner Verbindung zu den aufgeführten Anbieter*innen.
The purpose of Privacy Guides is to educate our community on the importance of privacy online and government programs internationally that are designed to monitor all of your online activities.
> Um [datenschutzfreundliche alternative] Apps zu finden, besuchen Sie Websites wie Good Reports und **Privacy Guides**, die datenschutzfreundliche Apps in einer Vielzahl von Kategorien auflisten, darunter auch E-Mail-Anbieter (in der Regel mit kostenpflichtigen Tarifen), die nicht von den großen Technologieunternehmen betrieben werden.
— [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/online-security-social-media-privacy/)
> If you're looking for a new VPN, you can go to the discount code of just about any podcast. If you are looking for a **good** VPN, you need professional help. The same goes for email clients, browsers, operating systems and password managers. How do you know which of these is the best, most privacy-friendly option? For that there is **Privacy Guides**, a platform on which a number of volunteers search day in, day out for the best privacy-friendly tools to use on the internet.
— [Tweakers.net](https://tweakers.net/reviews/10568/op-zoek-naar-privacyvriendelijke-tools-niek-de-wilde-van-privacy-guides.html) [Translated from Dutch]
Also featured on: [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/), [Wirecutter](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/practical-guide-to-securing-windows-pc/) [[2](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/practical-guide-to-securing-your-mac/)], and [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/firefox-mozilla-2022/).
## History
Privacy Guides was launched in September 2021 as a continuation of the [defunct](privacytools.md) "PrivacyTools" open-source educational project. We recognized the importance of independent, criteria-focused product recommendations and general knowledge in the privacy space, which is why we needed to preserve the work that had been created by so many contributors since 2015 and make sure that information had a stable home on the web indefinitely.
In 2022, we completed the transition of our main website framework from Jekyll to MkDocs, using the `mkdocs-material` documentation software. This change made open-source contributions to our site significantly easier for outsiders, because instead of needing to know complicated syntax to write posts effectively, contributing is now as easy as writing a standard Markdown document.
We additionally launched our new discussion forum at [discuss.privacyguides.net](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/) as a community platform to share ideas and ask questions about our mission. This augments our existing community on Matrix, and replaced our previous GitHub Discussions platform, decreasing our reliance on proprietary discussion platforms.
So far in 2023 we've launched international translations of our website in [French](/fr/), [Hebrew](/he/), and [Dutch](/nl/), with more languages on the way, made possible by our excellent translation team on [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/privacyguides). We plan to continue carrying forward our mission of outreach and education, and finding ways to more clearly highlight the dangers of a lack of privacy awareness in the modern digital age, and the prevalence and harms of security breaches across the technology industry.
Darüber hinaus haben [viele Menschen](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/graphs/contributors) Beiträge zu dem Projekt geleistet. Und du kannst auch, wir sind Open Source auf GitHub und nehmen Übersetzungsvorschläge auf [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/privacyguides) an.
Unsere Teammitglieder überprüfen alle Änderungen, die an der Website vorgenommen werden, und kümmern sich um administrative Aufgaben wie Webhosting und Finanzen, allerdings profitieren sie nicht persönlich von den Beiträgen, die zu dieser Website geleistet werden. Unsere Finanzdaten werden von der Open Collective Foundation 501(c)(3) unter [opencollective.com/privacyguides](https://opencollective.com/privacyguides)transparent veröffentlicht. Spenden an Privacy Guides sind in den Vereinigten Staaten generell von der Steuer absetzbar.
*Das Folgende ist eine menschenlesbare Zusammenfassung (und kein Ersatz für) der [Lizenz](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/main/LICENSE):*
:fontawesome-brands-creative-commons: :fontawesome-brands-creative-commons-by: :fontawesome-brands-creative-commons-nd: Sofern nicht anders angegeben, werden die Originalinhalte auf dieser Website unter der [Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/main/LICENSE)zur Verfügung gestellt. Das bedeutet, dass es allen freisteht, das Material in jedem Medium oder Format für jeden Zweck, auch kommerziell, zu kopieren und weiterzugeben, solange `Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)` in angemessener Anerkannt und ein Link zur Lizenz angeben wird. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests Privacy Guides endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the content of this website, you may not distribute the modified material.
This license is in place to prevent people from sharing our work without giving proper credit, and to prevent people from modifying our work in a way that could be used to mislead people. If you find the terms of this license too restrictive for the project you're working on, please reach out to us at `jonah@privacyguides.org`. We are happy to provide alternative licensing options for well-intentioned projects in the privacy space!
