r/privacy is a subreddit with 1.6M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses privacy, app, 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
Pain & Anger
: "Canadians are set to lose all digital privacy. No one here is talking about it."
8 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "VPN ban for UK update with new rules expected 'within 12 months'"
8 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Is there a program made specifically to trick face verification?"
4 posts
#4
Ideas
: "The Digital Identity Event Horizon | This is a 266 page long document listing everything that can go wrong with digital identity"
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
Privacy
: "Apple turns iCloud on every time after an update"
51 posts
#2
App
47 posts
#3
Looking For
44 posts
#4
Looking
44 posts
#5
Worst
25 posts
#6
Tool
12 posts
#7
Hate
11 posts
#8
Secure
11 posts
#9
Tracking
: "Tired of Google and their Tracking. What search engines are y'all using?"
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
age verification
: "Reddit is now requiring age verification, this has gotten out of hand."
70 posts
#2
discussion
: "Canadians are set to lose all digital privacy. No one here is talking about it."
46 posts
#3
news
: "Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract"
37 posts
#4
question
: "AI at the doctor - what rights do we have?"
29 posts
#5
chat control
: "Is there any big country not in on this surveillance fiasco?"
8 posts
#6
software
: "This startup wants to turn the world into a searchable video feed, starting in San Francisco"
2 posts
#7
hardware
: "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change"
1 post
#8
guide
: "Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For"
1 post
#9
identity verification
: "Ireland's New Digital Wallet Turns MyGovID Into a National ID"
1 post
#10
PDF
: "Privacy-Preserving Age Verification - and Its Limitations (pdf)"
1 post
Member Growth in r/privacy
Yearly
+152k members(10.2%)
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Last updated: July 5, 2026