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Top 23 Shell Privacy Projects
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openvpn-install
Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more (by angristan)
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Project mention: How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-05
You can either set each up yourself, or there are a variety of containers available. A chatbot of your choice can likely guide you through it, since it'll depend on your specific network setup and how exactly you'd like it configured.
AdGuardHome is fairly straightforward: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome?tab=readme-ov-fil...
And here is a nice script to install wireguard: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
And you'll likely need to forward the WireGuard port.
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whoami-project
Whoami provides enhanced privacy, anonymity for Debian and Arch based linux distributions
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wireguard-manager
✔️ WireGuard-Manager is an innovative tool designed to streamline the deployment and management of WireGuard VPNs. Emphasizing user-friendliness and security, it simplifies the complexities of VPN configuration, offering a robust yet accessible solution for both personal and professional use.
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Vanadium
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.
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ios_17_required_reason_api_scanner
A simple shell script collection to scan your Xcode Swift project for required reason API usage to ensure privacy compliance and to simplify the creation of privacy manifests.
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ipfs-chat
Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.
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Ubuntu-Telemetry-Free-Privacy-Secure
This Bash script just removes a pre-installed Telemetry, a pre-installed software and libs with some potentional or high risk. Script removes them to make your experience better and more secure. Also, the script installs an additional software for the protection. You will find more advices in Readme file about "what you can do more".
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autohosts
Automate hosts file updates on Linux and MacOS. Block Firefox telemetry, Google snooping and web trackers at the root.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Privacy projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | openvpn-install | 14,760 |
| 2 | wireguard-install | 9,357 |
| 3 | block | 2,638 |
| 4 | rhasspy | 2,531 |
| 5 | HiddenVM | 2,447 |
| 6 | whoami-project | 2,146 |
| 7 | autoVPN | 2,013 |
| 8 | hblock | 1,826 |
| 9 | wireguard-manager | 1,756 |
| 10 | Vanadium | 1,118 |
| 11 | easy-wg-quick | 1,057 |
| 12 | ios_17_required_reason_api_scanner | 647 |
| 13 | qvm-create-windows-qube | 361 |
| 14 | energizedprotection | 322 |
| 15 | ataraxia | 285 |
| 16 | adblock-lean | 280 |
| 17 | open_webview | 276 |
| 18 | black-mirror | 205 |
| 19 | FireFox-Privacy-Script | 181 |
| 20 | simpleoptout | 148 |
| 21 | ipfs-chat | 139 |
| 22 | Ubuntu-Telemetry-Free-Privacy-Secure | 102 |
| 23 | autohosts | 85 |
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