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docs/about/contributors.md

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 title: Contributors
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+description: A complete list of contributors who have collectively made an enormous impact on the Privacy Guides project.
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 <!-- Do NOT manually edit this file, please add yourself to the .all-contributorsrc file instead. See our GitHub Issues for more details -->
 

docs/about/criteria.md

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 title: General Criteria
+description: A list of general priorities we consider for all submissions to Privacy Guides.
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 Below are some general priorities we consider for all submissions to Privacy Guides. Each category will have additional requirements for inclusion.

docs/about/donate.md

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 title: Donate
+description: The charitable mission of Privacy Guides relies on contributions from visitors like yourself. Anything you can do to support the project is hugely appreciated.
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 Donate to Privacy Guides and support our mission to defend digital rights and spread the word about mass surveillance programs and other daily privacy invasions. You can help Privacy Guides researchers, activists, and maintainers create informative content, host private digital services, and protect privacy rights at a time when the world needs it most.

docs/about/executive-policy.md

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 title: Executive Policy
+description: These are policies formally adopted by our executive committee, and take precedence over all other statements expressed on this website.
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 These are policies formally adopted by Privacy Guides' executive committee, and take precedence over all other statements expressed on this website.

docs/about/jobs.md

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 title: Job Openings
+description: Privacy Guides has a small, remote team of privacy researchers and advocates. Any open positions we may have in the future will be posted here.
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 Privacy Guides has a small, remote team of privacy researchers and advocates working to further our mission of protecting free expression and promoting privacy-respecting technology. As a non-profit, we are expanding very slowly to ensure the project is sustainable in the long term. All of our staff members are listed [here](../about.md#staff). Please consider [donating](donate.md) to support our cause.

docs/about/notices.md

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 title: "Notices and Disclaimers"
+description: Information about our website license, acceptable use policy, and other important details.
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 ## Legal Disclaimer

docs/about/privacy-policy.md

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 title: "Privacy Policy"
+description: We do not sell or share your data with any third-parties.
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 Privacy Guides is a community project operated by a number of active volunteer contributors. The public list of team members [can be found on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/privacyguides/people).
 

docs/about/privacytools.md

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 title: "PrivacyTools FAQ"
+description: The real story behind the team transition from privacytools.io to privacyguides.org
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 In September 2021, every active contributor unanimously agreed to move from PrivacyTools to work on this site: Privacy Guides. This decision was made because PrivacyTools’ founder and controller of the domain name had disappeared for an extended period of time and could not be contacted.
 

docs/about/services.md

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+---
+description: We run a number of web services to test out features and promote cool decentralized, federated, and/or open-source projects.
+---
+
 # Privacy Guides Services
 
 We run a number of web services to test out features and promote cool decentralized, federated, and/or open-source projects. Many of these services are available to the public and are detailed below.

docs/about/statistics.md

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 title: Traffic Statistics
+description: We self-host Umami to create a nice visualization of our traffic statistics, which are made public here.
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 We self-host [Umami](https://umami.is) to create a nice visualization of our traffic statistics, which are public at the link below.

docs/advanced/payments.md

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 title: Private Payments
 icon: material/hand-coin
+description: Your buying habits are the holy grail of ad targeting, but you still have plenty of options when it comes to making payments privately.
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 There's a reason data about your buying habits is considered the holy grail of ad targeting: your purchases can leak a veritable treasure trove of data about you. Unfortunately, the current financial system is anti-privacy by design, enabling banks, other companies, and governments to easily trace transactions. Nevertheless, you have plenty of options when it comes to making payments privately.
 

docs/android/general-apps.md

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 title: "General Apps"
+description: The apps listed here are Android-exclusive and specifically enhance or replace key system functionality.
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docs/android/index.md

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 title: "Android"
+description: Our advice for replacing privacy-invasive default Android features with private and secure alternatives.
 icon: 'simple/android'
 cover: android.webp
 schema:

docs/android/obtaining-apps.md

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 title: "Obtaining Applications"
+description: We recommend these methods for obtaining applications on Android without interacting with Google Play Services.
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 There are many ways to obtain Android apps privately, even from the Play Store, without interacting with Google Play Services. We recommend the following methods of obtaining applications on Android, listed in order of preference.
 

docs/basics/why-privacy-matters.md

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 title: "Why Privacy Matters"
 icon: 'material/shield-account'
+description: In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not.
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 In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. ==Your privacy is up for grabs==, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands.
 

docs/cryptocurrency.md

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 meta_title: "Private Cryptocurrency Blockchains - Privacy Guides"
+description: Unlike most cryptocurrencies, these ones provide transaction privacy by default. Monero is our top choice for obfuscating transaction information.
 title: Cryptocurrency
 icon: material/bank-circle
 cover: cryptocurrency.webp

docs/financial-services.md

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 title: Financial Services
 icon: material/bank
 cover: financial-services.webp
+description: These services can assist you in protecting your privacy from merchants and other trackers, which is one of the biggest challenges to privacy today.
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 Making payments online is one of the biggest challenges to privacy. These services can assist you in protecting your privacy from merchants and other trackers, provided you have a strong understanding of how to make private payments effectively. We strongly encourage you first read our payments overview article before making any purchases:

docs/index.md

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 meta_title: "Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources"
-description: "Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life. Ad & affiliate free, high quality reviews."
+description: "Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life."
 template: home.html
 social:
   cards_layout: home

docs/meta/admonitions.md

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 title: Admonitions
+description: A guide for website contributors on creating admonitions.
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 **Admonitions** (or "call-outs") are a choice writers can use to include side content in an article without interrupting the document flow.

docs/meta/brand.md

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 title: Branding Guidelines
+description: A guide for journalists and website contributors on proper branding of the Privacy Guides wordmark and logo.
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 The name of the website is **Privacy Guides** and should **not** be changed to:

docs/meta/commit-messages.md

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 title: Commit Messages
+description: A guide for website contributors on using useful Git commit messages when making website change requests.
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 For our commit messages we follow the style provided by [Conventional Commits](https://conventionalcommits.org). Not all of those suggestions are appropriate for Privacy Guides, so the main ones we use are:

docs/meta/git-recommendations.md

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 title: Git Recommendations
+description: A guide for website contributors on using Git effectively.
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 If you make changes to this website on GitHub.com's web editor directly, you shouldn't have to worry about this. If you are developing locally and/or are a long-term website editor (who should probably be developing locally!), consider these recommendations.
 

docs/meta/translations.md

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 title: Translations
+description: A guide for website contributors on adding translations to our website.
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 Crowdin has good documentation, and we suggest looking at their [Getting Started](https://support.crowdin.com/crowdin-intro) guide. Our site is largely written in [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown), so it should be easy to contribute. This page contains some helpful pointers for translating some specific syntax you may encounter on our site.

docs/meta/uploading-images.md

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 title: Uploading Images
+description: A guide for website contributors on uploading images in the proper format and location.
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 If you make changes to this website that involve adding new images or replacing existing ones, here are a couple of general recommendations:

docs/meta/writing-style.md

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 title: Writing Style
+description: Our official writing style handbook for website contributors.
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 Privacy Guides is written in American English, and you should refer to [APA Style guidelines](https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar) when in doubt.

docs/mobile-browsers.md

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-meta_title: "Privacy Respecting Mobile Web Browsers for Android and iOS - Privacy Guides"
+meta_title: "Privacy Respecting Web Browsers for Android and iOS - Privacy Guides"
 title: "Mobile Browsers"
 icon: material/cellphone-information
 description: These browsers are what we currently recommend for standard/non-anonymous internet browsing on your phone.

docs/mobile-phones.md

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 title: "Mobile Phones"
 icon: material/cellphone-check
-description: These mobile devices have proper Android Verified Boot support for custom operating systems.
+description: These mobile devices provide the best hardware security support for custom Android operating systems.
 cover: android.webp
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docs/os/index.md

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 title: Operating Systems
+description: An overview of our operating system-related recommendations for all major computing hardware.
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 We publish configuration guides for the major operating systems, because you can generally improve the amount of data that is collected about you on any option, especially if you use privacy tools like our [recommended web browsers](../desktop-browsers.md) in place of native tools where appropriate. However, some operating systems will be more privacy-respecting inherently, and it will be much harder to achieve an equivalent level of privacy on other choices.
 

docs/os/windows/group-policies.md

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 title: Group Policy Settings
+description: A quick guide to configuring Group Policy to make Windows a bit more privacy respecting.
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 Outside of modifying the registry itself, the **Local Group Policy Editor** is the most powerful way to change many aspects of your system without installing third-party tools. Changing these settings requires [Pro Edition](index.md#windows-editions) or better.
 

docs/os/windows/index.md

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 title: Windows Overview
 icon: material/microsoft-windows
+description: Microsoft Windows is a common operating system which is extremely non-private out of the box. Our guide covers making some improvements to your computer without replacing your OS.
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 **Microsoft Windows** is a common OS shipped with many PCs by default. The following guides aim to provide some ways to improve privacy and reduce the default telemetry and data stored by disabling some unnecessary features. Over time, Microsoft adds features to the OS which can sometimes rely on cloud-based services. These features will often require certain types of [optional data](https://privacy.microsoft.com/data-collection-windows) that is sometimes sent to remote servers for processing.
 

docs/real-time-communication.md

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 meta_title: "The Best Private Instant Messengers - Privacy Guides"
 title: "Real-Time Communication"
 icon: material/chat-processing
-description: Other instant messengers make all of your private conversations available to the company that runs them.
+description: Encrypted messengers like Signal and SimpleX keep your sensitive communications secure from prying eyes.
 cover: real-time-communication.webp
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 <small>Protects against the following threat(s):</small>

docs/router.md

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 title: "Router Firmware"
 icon: material/router-wireless
-description: These alternative operating systems can be used to secure your router or Wi-Fi access point.
+description: Alternative operating systems for securing your router or Wi-Fi access point.
 cover: router.webp
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 Below are a few alternative operating systems, that can be used on routers, Wi-Fi access points, etc.

docs/search-engines.md

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 meta_title: "Recommended Search Engines: Anonymous Google Alternatives - Privacy Guides"
 title: "Search Engines"
 icon: material/search-web
-description: These privacy-respecting search engines don't build an advertising profile based on your searches.
+description: Privacy-respecting search engines which don't build an advertising profile based on your searches.
 cover: search-engines.webp
 global:
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docs/security-keys.md

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 title: "Security Keys"
 icon: 'material/key-chain'
-description: These tools assist you with securing your internet accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication without sending your secrets to a third-party.
+description: Secure your internet accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication without sending your secrets to a third-party.
 cover: multi-factor-authentication.webp
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 <small>Protects against the following threat(s):</small>

docs/tools.md

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-meta_title: "The Best Privacy Tools, Services, and Ad-Free Recommendations - Privacy Guides"
+meta_title: "Ad-Free Privacy Tool/Service Recommendations - Privacy Guides"
 title: "Privacy Tools"
 icon: material/tools
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   - toc
-description: Privacy Guides is the most transparent and reliable website for finding software, apps, and services that protect your personal data from mass surveillance programs and other internet threats.
+description: A complete list of the privacy tools, services, software, and hardware recommended by the Privacy Guides community.
 ---
 
 If you're looking for a specific solution to something, these are the hardware and software tools we recommend in a variety of categories. Our recommended privacy tools are primarily chosen based on security features, with additional emphasis on decentralized and open-source tools. They are applicable to a variety of threat models ranging from protection against global mass surveillance programs and avoiding big tech companies to mitigating attacks, but only you can determine what will work best for your needs.

docs/vpn.md

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 meta_title: "Private VPN Service Recommendations and Comparison, No Sponsors or Ads - Privacy Guides"
 title: "VPN Services"
 icon: material/vpn
-description: These are the best VPN services for protecting your privacy and security online. Find a provider here that isn’t out to spy on you.
+description: The best VPN services for protecting your privacy and security online. Find a provider here that isn’t out to spy on you.
 cover: vpn.webp
 global:
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