What should I use?

Pick your situation. We'll recommend the least-screwed stack from 699 products.

Confidential work

Legal, finance, trade secrets, IP. You need tools that won't leak what you're wo

Journalist / activist

Source protection and surveillance resistance. Metadata is as dangerous as conte

Medical / health professional

Patient data, compliance obligations, audit trails. A breach here ruins lives.

Family with young kids

Child safety, no behavioural targeting, no predator vectors. Pick tools that don

Student / academic

Research data, collaboration, tight budget. You shouldn't have to trade privacy

Small business owner

Client data, communications, payments. Your clients trust you with their informa

Maximum privacy

Minimise all exposure regardless of convenience. You know the trade-offs and you

Everyday user

Reasonable privacy without breaking your workflow. Better choices that don't req

Anti-Stalking

Being tracked or controlled? Threat briefing with exact settings to change now.

How this works

We score every product on four axes: surveillance, data sharing, security failures, and honesty. Your scenario sets the weight of each axis. Products are ranked within each relevant category, filtered by jurisdiction risk based on your location. Grades come from real evidence — 4,585 sourced contradictions across 699 products.

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