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, looking for, looking, privacy, 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
: "recommended OCR app for android?"
2 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Need your advice, what do you guys do/use to get unlimited permanent email addresses without exposing your real emails?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
App
47 posts
#2
Looking For
43 posts
#3
Looking
43 posts
#4
Privacy
42 posts
#5
Worst
17 posts
#6
Tool
12 posts
#7
Hate
11 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
question
: "Is anyone else seeing "We updated you to a Meta Account on Meta apps" emails and messages?"
18 posts
#2
news
: "France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms"
5 posts
#3
discussion
: "Lmao, I just got flamed for advocating for privacy."
4 posts
#4
age verification
: "So how likely is it for age veryfication to ever be removed from reddit and youtube and sites like this"
3 posts
#5
data breach
: "Johns Hopkins alerts 3,000+ patients after data sent to AI tool"
3 posts
#6
software
: "[BUG] iOS Mail App completely exposed my primary account email on a "Reply All" to a Private Relay thread."
2 posts
#7
eli5
: "Mozilla Relay vs SimpleLogin vs Posteo aliases"
2 posts
#8
hardware
: "Delivery robots accused of scanning customers’ faces and sharing biometric data"
1 post
Member Growth in r/privacy
Yearly
+150k members(9.8%)
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Last updated: October 26, 2026