r/privacy is a subreddit with 1.7M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses app, privacy, looking for, looking, and worst, and they frequently recommend/review 2fa app, email provider, and search engine.
Privacy in the digital age (this is not a SECURITY subreddit, and PUBLIC data, closed source, etc is off-topic)
Popular Themes in r/privacy
#1
Solution Requests
: "Can someone help me out with Motorola ALPRs vs Flock?"
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "What steps (if any) do you actually take to protect your data privacy, or do you feel it’s already too late to matter?"
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
App
47 posts
#2
Privacy
44 posts
#3
Looking For
43 posts
#4
Looking
43 posts
#5
Worst
17 posts
#6
Hate
12 posts
#7
Tool
12 posts
#8
Secure
11 posts
#9
Tracking
10 posts
#10
Tired
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/privacy
2fa App
75 reviews
#1
Aegis
5.0★ from 21 reviews
#2
Bitwarden
4.2★ from 9 reviews
#3
Ente
4.6★ from 9 reviews
Email Provider
36 reviews
#1
Protonmail
4.4★ from 7 reviews
#2
Proton
4.0★ from 5 reviews
#3
Tutanota
4.0★ from 4 reviews
Search Engine
35 reviews
#1
Kagi
4.9★ from 10 reviews
#2
Brave
4.0★ from 10 reviews
#3
DuckDuckGo
3.5★ from 4 reviews
Flair Used in r/privacy
#1
news
: "Flock Cameras CEO, Garrett Langley, says privacy is the “wrong” priority, but his own home is blurred on street view"
42 posts
#2
question
: "Made a mistake I now regret with Google Gemini"
30 posts
#3
discussion
: "Your public Reddit post and comment history is being actively indexed by search engines and AI to build comprehensive user profiles."
28 posts
#4
age verification
: "Win! California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt"
11 posts
#5
data breach
: "FBI investigating 153 million US and Canadian driver’s licenses leaked on Russian cybercrime forum, including that of US SecDef Pete Hegseth — data is suspected to have come from an ID-authentication service provider"
3 posts
#6
chat control
: "Strong public support for EU legislation as abuse imagery rockets"
3 posts
#7
hardware
: "Does your vehicle have a KARR sticker in the window?"
3 posts
#8
software
: "1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project"
2 posts
#9
eli5
: "Apps from F-Droid for Rookies"
1 post
#10
guide
: "Removing old photos from servers."
1 post
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Yearly
+152k members(10.1%)
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Last updated: September 5, 2026