Who's running this?
One person. No company, no funding, nobody paying for placement. It seems fair that a site telling you to be careful about who you trust should say who it is.
Martin Abondano
Somewhere near Lisbon
That field cycles through fifty cities and none of them is mine. Writing a privacy site and then publishing my home city would be a bit much.
Why this site exists
Privacy advice online splits into two useless piles. One tells you to use incognito mode and stop there. The other tells you to compile your own operating system, and loses everybody by paragraph three. Almost nothing sits in the middle, where actual people live.
So this is the middle: what to do first, what genuinely matters, what's oversold, and what to do on the day something goes wrong. Written plainly, with the limits stated instead of hidden. If a page here can't help you, it says so and points at someone who can.
It's hand-written HTML, CSS, and one small JavaScript file — no framework, no build pipeline, no dependencies to get compromised. That's partly taste and partly the point: you can read the whole thing yourself and check every claim I make about it.
What I get out of it
Nothing. There are no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsorships, and no email list. Nobody has paid to be on the recommended products page and nobody can. It costs a few dollars a year to host and I'd rather that than owe anyone an angle.
Some photos
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Metadata stripped before upload, which is the sort of thing you start doing after writing a guide about it.
Obligatory duck
Click the duck. The sound is a 11 KB sound generated by a short Python script — even the quack isn't loaded from anyone else's server.
Get in touch, sort of
There's no contact form here, because a form is a thing that collects data. Corrections and additions are best sent as an issue or a pull request on GitHub — that way the fix and the reasoning are both public.