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Top 23 Privacy Open-Source Projects
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Project mention: Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-05Sure!
Get a few Beelink SER5 or SER9's, install Nextcloud to cover the files, document editing, communications (to save on Microsoft 365). Then you can have Gitea (and gitea actions) for your source code and building (skipping github enterprise), Harbor to host and scan your containers, frappe for HR, etc. Pretty much anything you pay enterprise rates for, you can self-host a version that will get your company from 1 to 100s with minimal extra work. If it's not on https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted, you can probably vibe code it in a couple hours.
I just started to run a k3s cluster with an almost enterprise grade software factory and a few (light) production workloads on a single cheap minipc.
https://scottyah.com/cluster
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Project mention: How To Learn Go Fast: A Practical Roadmap For Senior Backend Developers | dev.to | 2026-06-26
caddyserver/caddy — readable HTTP server.
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Win11Debloat
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Project mention: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-15I recently set up a new gaming PC, made from cannibalised parts of other machines. I installed Windows 11 as there was no point starting on an older OS (and Bazzite etc really struggled with the nvidia GPU so Linux was a non-starter even though I love my Steam Deck and Proton).
The one saving grace for all of this was Win11Debloat[0]. I cannot recommend this set of configuration changes etc more highly. It kills _almost_ everything that irked me about 11. Use at your own risk, but it's now part of my standard install practice.
[0] https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
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quivr
Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.
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The following potential bug was found in the code of the popular ad blocker, AdGuardHome:
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hosts
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
For those who don't use it already, the following is a great compilation of curated block lists you can put into your etc/hosts file to block traffic :)
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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keepassxc
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
Project mention: LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-25KeePassXC is not for a "normal" user. It really needs to get default entry tempates [1] out the door.
[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/8228
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for people wondering:
"Ente Photos is a paid service, but we offer 10GB of free storage. You can also >>clone this repository and choose to self-host<<."
So both forms...
https://github.com/ente/ente
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Plausible Analytics
Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.
Project mention: Four monitoring tools I compared for three Cloudflare Pages sites | dev.to | 2026-07-03Plausible is privacy-focused analytics that handles sessions, custom events, and goals with a cleaner interface than GA4. The self-hosted version is open-source and free to run. Managed Plausible starts at $9/month for up to 10k monthly page views.
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Project mention: Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-10
Same here, but when a site completely fails in Firefox I either A) use my phone because mobile Firefox occasionally works or B) use Ungoogled Chromium.
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Really hoping the uBlock will continue to work on that project...
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personal-security-checklist
🔒 A compiled checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy in 2026
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Matomo
Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
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Self-Hosting-Guide
Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.
"Self-Hosting Guide" - GitHub repository by mikeroyal documenting self-hosted alternatives to cloud services. Available at: https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide
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Project mention: NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-14
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Atlas
🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and usability.
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
GoAccess is a fast terminal and HTML log analyzer for nginx access logs (requests/sec, status codes, top URLs, referrers, user agents). This guide covers installation, optional S3 download, and typical run modes.
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universal-android-debloater
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
Project mention: ZeroBloat: Open-source desktop app for removing Android bloatware | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-17There used to be an app called Universal Android Debloater[1] that did the same thing, but that was unfortunately abandoned three years ago.
Glad to see someone else take up the mantle, although, I find it a bit ironic that someone who cares about bloat is using Javascript to build a desktop app...
[1] https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
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awesome-privacy
Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.
Project mention: Privacy: A curated list of privacy-respecting software and services | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-06 -
Project mention: How I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months — I started at 16 | dev.to | 2026-05-08
The inevitable comparison: yes, I know about Obtainium. I get asked "why not Obtainium?" every week. Obtainium is the lightweight power-user updater for repos you already know about. GitHub Store is the discovery-first store for people who don't know what to install yet — and it's cross-platform. Use Obtainium. Use GitHub Store. Use both. We built Obtainium import/export so libraries move between them in one tap.
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simplex-chat
SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
Project mention: How should group chats work in decentralized systems? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-09@Realman78 Have you looked into how SimpleX does it?
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/doc...
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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SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
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Four monitoring tools I compared for three Cloudflare Pages sites
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Privacy projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | awesome-selfhosted | 302,733 |
| 2 | Caddy | 73,732 |
| 3 | Win11Debloat | 49,984 |
| 4 | quivr | 39,185 |
| 5 | AdGuardHome | 35,315 |
| 6 | web-check | 34,106 |
| 7 | hosts | 30,662 |
| 8 | keepassxc | 27,859 |
| 9 | ente | 27,568 |
| 10 | Plausible Analytics | 27,500 |
| 11 | ungoogled-chromium | 27,062 |
| 12 | DNS-Blocklists | 24,181 |
| 13 | macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide | 22,457 |
| 14 | personal-security-checklist | 21,815 |
| 15 | Matomo | 21,660 |
| 16 | Self-Hosting-Guide | 21,525 |
| 17 | FreeTube | 21,383 |
| 18 | Atlas | 20,990 |
| 19 | GoAccess | 20,680 |
| 20 | universal-android-debloater | 19,231 |
| 21 | awesome-privacy | 19,036 |
| 22 | Obtainium | 17,982 |
| 23 | simplex-chat | 17,815 |
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