r/privacy is a subreddit with 1.7M members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and solution 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
News
: "Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. - Volpe’s arrest demonstrates a pre-built, operational pipeline connecting private messages to law enforcement."
10 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Efficient method to delete old unused or unwanted accounts?"
6 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "23andMe got permission from a bankruptcy judge to sell your DNA. 28 state AGs sued to stop it and lost. Here's exactly what to do about it, deletion isn't enough, you have to separately request your physical sample be destroyed."
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "the little white “tap to pay” machines tracking you"
3 posts
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
Privacy
: "Reddit Privacy"
47 posts
#2
App
47 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
: "Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. - Volpe’s arrest demonstrates a pre-built, operational pipeline connecting private messages to law enforcement."
47 posts
#2
question
: "the little white “tap to pay” machines tracking you"
30 posts
#3
discussion
: "23andMe got permission from a bankruptcy judge to sell your DNA. 28 state AGs sued to stop it and lost. Here's exactly what to do about it, deletion isn't enough, you have to separately request your physical sample be destroyed."
25 posts
#4
age verification
: "How bad is "age verification" going to get?"
15 posts
#5
software
: "Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features"
5 posts
#6
hardware
: "This 'adversarial' pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you | TechCrunch"
2 posts
#7
guide
: "The safest way to use Windows and avoiding GDID problem."
2 posts
#8
data breach
: "Aesto Healthcare data breach"
2 posts
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Yearly
+152k members(10.1%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026