ATROCITY-FREE* TECH

  • AI / large language models (LLMs)

    Thaura.ai is an ethical AI built by Syrian engineers as an act of resistance against Big Tech. Thaura stands with Palestine and does not take military contracts.

    Duck.ai is owned by DuckDuckGo, a US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information of its users.

  • social media

    BlueSky is a US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees. Bluesky operates via an inter-operable API that enables decentralised participation.

    Upscrolled is an anti-censorship video and content-sharing platform run by Recursive Methods, an Australian company led by a Palestinian founder.

    Mastadon is open source and decentralised platform, incorporated as a us-based non-profit organisation.

    Flashes is a photo sharing app based on your BlueSky account. It is an US-based company owned by its CEO and other Bluesky Social employees.

    Pixelfed is an open source, decentralised photo & video-sharing platform based in Canada.

  • email

    Tuta is a privacy-aware email, contacts and calendar service that is end-to-end encrypted and encrypts your entire mailbox. Based in Germany and with concrete affordability and sustainability options.

    Protonmail is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    Runbox Solutions AS is an independent, employee-owned company based in Norway offering encrypted email and runs on renewables.

  • web browser

    Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit organisation.

    Tor provides access through a decentralised, encrypted network, providing anonymous browsing. Tor is owned by the Tor Project, a US-based non-profit organisation with thousands of volunteers.

    DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users.

    MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.

  • social / professional networking

    Diaspora is a decentralised, non-profit, user-owned social network

    Hudd is a Norway-based social network focusing on strengthening local communities and privacy.

    Meetup is owned by a Spain-based company, but hosted in the US.

  • search engine

    DuckDuckGo is an US-based company known for its privacy-focused search engine. DuckDuckGo does not track or store personal information from its users. It uses its own crawler and is not based on Google or Bing.

    Good is a privacy-oriented non-profit search engine from Germany. It uses the Brave (US-based) search index. Good requires a small fee to provide an advertisement-free space.

  • web site development

    Joomla is an open source web site development and content management system supported by US-based Open Source Matters Inc.

    Webnode is owned by team.blue, a Belgian company focusing on online business for entrepreneurs

    Wordpress is owned by the Wordpress Foundation, a US based non-profit.

    Squarespace is an US-based public company

  • office suite

    Nextcloud is an open-source content collaboration platform which has a web-based office suite called Nextcloud Office, which provides word processing (Nextcloud Write), spreadsheets (Nextcloud Spreadsheet), and presentation software.

    LibreOffice is a desktop-based office suite. It is open source and owned by the Document Foundation, a German-based non-profit organisation of free software advocates.

    Cryptpad is an open-source browser-based, fully encrypted collaboration suite. It is developed by the French company XWiki.

  • team collaboration

    Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and third-party application integrations. Mattermost is an US-based company.

    Infomaniak kChat is a Swiss-based team communication platform owned by Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak.

  • video conferencing

    Whereby is a product of Video Communication Service AS and parent company Videonor AS, both Norwegian companies.

    Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows secure videoconferencing solutions. Jitsi is best known for Jitsi Meet video conferencing platform.

    Livestorm is a France-based, publicly listed company.

  • messaging

    Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation, a US-based nonprofit organization focusing on developing open-source privacy technology to protect user communication

  • cloud services

    Jottacloud is a Norwegian company that owns its own datacentres and servers.

    Filen is a privately-owned encrypted cloud storage platform using their own servers in Germany. They don’t use Microsoft or Amazon-owned data centres.

  • project management

    Taiga is a Spain-based open-source project management software for cross-functional teams.

    Notion is a US-based private company owned by its employees and investors.

  • document storage

    Proton Drive is an encrypted storage and collaboration platform whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    Tresorit is an encrypted cloud storage platform owned by the Swiss Post, the state-owned national postal service.

    Dropbox is owned by a US-based public company.

  • VPNs

    Proton VPN is part of a set of Proton services operated by Proton AG, a Swiss corporation whose primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation based in Switzerland.

    MullVad is owned by Mullvad VPN AB, a company based in Sweden. It is known for its strong emphasis on privacy and security.

  • video sharing

    Vimeo is owned by an the Italian US-based public company

    Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Canal+.

  • analytics

    Matamo is a New zealand-based company. The service can be self-hosted, is open source and provides 100% data ownership.

    Digistats is a Swiss-based web analytics service.

  • translation

    Deepl is owned by a Germany company.