r/privatelife is a subreddit with 13k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses privacy, security, socialmedia, tracking, and google.
This subreddit is meant to advocate privacy, security and freedom in a concise manner, free of prejudice bias, free of politics, free of cultist thoughts.
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Popular Themes in r/privatelife
#1
News
: "Multiple US Officials Expose CIA Plan to Kidnap or Assassinate Julian Assange [The Free Thought Project]"
26 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Anyone read this?"
5 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Together with the r/vpn community, we made a new VPN comparison table that I try to update constantly. Would love it if you had any pointers"
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Facebook Bans Developer Who Made Tool for People to Use Facebook Less [Business Insider]"
3 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "We built a Rotten Tomatoes-style website for VPNs"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/privatelife
#1
Privacy
: "Firefox boosts Privacy by giving ‘total cookie protection’ to all users by default"
118 posts
#2
Security
: "(PATRIOT Act 2.0) The RESTRICT Act is not limited to just TikTok. It gives govt authority over all forms of communication domestic or abroad and grants powers to “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk” to national Security now and in any “potential future transaction” [@MisesCaucus]"
58 posts
#3
Socialmedia
: "I, TheAnonymouseJoker, announce the departure of r/privatelife from Reddit. Good bye, Reddit. Lemmy is the new home. Come over at https://lemmy.ml/c/privatelife for all the guides and random crap I write."
27 posts
#4
Tracking
: "Facial recognition software: how's it's Tracking you and why [8:19]"
25 posts
#5
: "[PDF] Google has actively worked with Big Tech competitors – Apple, Facebook and Microsoft – to undermine users’ privacy in a closed-door meeting on August 6, 2019 [Courtlistener]"
17 posts
#6
: "FTC requests Facebooks to sell WhatsApp and Instagram in major antitrust case [The Independent]"
17 posts
#7
Android
: "[Research Paper] How Private Are Android Keyboards? [Kamil Przepiorowski, Supervised by Douglas Leith, University of Dublin, Trinity College] (April 18, 2022)"
16 posts
#8
Internet
: "DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement"
15 posts
#9
Surveillance
: "Mozilla Says Chrome’s Latest Feature Enables Surveillance"
15 posts
#10
Identity
15 posts
Flair Used in r/privatelife
#1
Privacy Guide
: "100% FOSS Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 4.0"
1 post
#2
News
: "Google Analytics announced illegal"
1 post
#3
Question
: "Can we agree on Facebook's main method of collecting data?"
1 post
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Last updated: June 15, 2026