r/privacy is a subreddit with 1.6M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses privacy, app, looking for, looking, and surveillance, 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
: "Need a new TV - which ones won't nag for a network connection?"
7 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Slate Auto Claims It's EV Pickup Will Never Track You"
4 posts
#3
News
: "Apple and Google have been given until September to install software that blocks explicit images on children’s mobile phones or face legislation"
3 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "Is there a way to hide my past Reddit posts containing sensitive medical information from Google searches after my landlord was able to ascertain my identity from my Reddit user name and posts?"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/privacy
#1
Privacy
: "Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare"
137 posts
#2
App
: "If someone needed to just text a tip anonymously to a friend one time, what App or method could I use without connecting to them?"
49 posts
#3
Looking For
44 posts
#4
Looking
44 posts
#5
Surveillance
: "The Surveillance Hubs: How Data Centers Enable The Modern Police State"
29 posts
#6
Data
: "Massachusetts House passes Data Privacy Act"
25 posts
#7
Social Media
: "Social Media ban 'won't keep children safe', commissioner warns"
24 posts
#8
Age Verification
: "You're not resisting Age Verification hard enough. (US centered)"
21 posts
#9
Security
: "FIFA scams are a reminder that privacy tools are also Security tools"
20 posts
#10
Tracking
: "Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert"
18 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
: "'Nobody Is Safe': FL Man Sues After AI Facial Recognition Wrongly Tags Him Child Luring Suspect in Shocking Police Blunder"
48 posts
#2
age verification
: "The UK wants to scan all photos on phones for 'nudity'. We should be protesting in the streets at the very least over this. Do you think they can apply it to open-source OS realistically?"
47 posts
#3
discussion
: "The Email Privacy Act would require the government to get a warrant to access emails and other electronic information"
45 posts
#4
question
: "Your phone is about to stop being yours. Check -> https://keepandroidopen.org/"
37 posts
#5
data breach
: "Trump Mobile confirms customer data exposure"
8 posts
#6
software
: "Microsoft retroactively removed the license for perpetual Office 2019 licenses"
5 posts
#7
chat control
: "I typed “sperm donation” in a temporary AI chat and Instagram somehow knew"
4 posts
#8
guide
: "We exposed data brokers hindering Californians’ rights. They’re changing their ways."
2 posts
#9
hardware
: "Turns Out TVs Are Monitoring Us Too"
1 post
#10
identity verification
: "Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe's Internet"
1 post
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Yearly
+147k members(9.9%)
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Last updated: June 15, 2026