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@pghqdev @AlternativeTo If i remember correctly it was on the chrome addon page itself

@privacytoolsIO @AlternativeTo Thanks for reporting! would you be able to share the website on which it fails?

Open-source Chrome extension for full-page, region, and visible-area screenshots with a built-in annotation editor, undo/redo, and export to PNG, JPEG, WebP, or PDF. Everything runs locally, zero data leaves your device

Meta has enabled a setting that allows anyone to use your public Instagram photos to create AI-generated images of you unless you opt out. To opt out, click your profile -> 3 bars in the top right -> scroll down to "Sharing and reuse" and toggle off for both Posts and for Reels.

App of the day: OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network -> privacytools.io/app/onionshare

If I give my .env to a LLM… will it leak my API keys later?

@home_assistant You guys are doing great work!

Home Assistant 2026.7! 🎉 Purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduate from Labs to become the new default, so your automations say what you want 🧠, Activity logbook is reborn as a timeline 📖, and an one-tap Update all! 🔄 home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07/0…

@AlternativeTo good find

Automated file organizer for Windows that sorts, renames, and manages files with smart rules, monitors folders, detects duplicates, and works fully offline

App of the day: @home_assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first -> privacytools.io/app/home-assis… @hass_devs

App of the day: @jellyfin streams your own video, music, and photo libraries to any device via web, mobile, and TV apps, with no subscription, no account, and no data sent to external servers -> privacytools.io/app/jellyfin

@AlternativeTo Skales looks great; thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Privacy-first local AI agent that runs goals, coding, email, calendar, browsing, and media tasks with no Docker or terminal

App of the day: @immichapp is a self-hosted photo and video management platform that provides automatic mobile backup, facial recognition, smart search, and a polished timeline view -> privacytools.io/app/immich (don't forget to rate, no account required)

New feature: Escape an ecosystem. Covering Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta. More to come! -> privacytools.io/alternatives

@enteio Thanks for the heads up. I will update your links and make sure your GitHub stars still track on privacytools.io/app/ente (btw, animate your users to use the rating)

Ladies and gentlemen, our #opensource code is now available @ github.com/ente/ente

Two new features released: Find text inside a note & document outline for your notes: try.privacynotes.app

Made in 🇪🇺 Europe is now a feature. 100+ privacy tools under EU, EFTA and UK jurisdiction, all in one place -> privacytools.io/apps/europe @startpage @MyStartMail @Internxt @SafingIO @ProtonPrivacy @mullvadnet @TutaPrivacy @Nextclouders @privmxsoftware @photoprism_app

@obscuravpn 🫂 We just released badges, in case you want to animate your users to rate your entry: privacytools.io/embed

Very happy to see that we are listed on @privacytoolsIO!

New: Users can rate apps now with stars. Please help out to get the feature going and rate your favorite apps: privacytools.io/apps use filters or the quick find. No account needed. Thanks for your support!  🫂

App of the Day: @SimpleXChat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs. Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls. -> privacytools.io/app/simplex-ch…

@T3chFalcon Great summary, thx

The founders of The Pirate Bay built the world's most famous torrent site in 2003. Three Swedish guys. Peter Sunde. Fredrik Neij. Gottfrid Svartholm. Their stated goal: help people freely exchange information. The entertainment industry's goal: destroy them. What followed is one of the most chaotic legal stories in internet history. 2006: Swedish police raid the servers. Took everything away. the site is back online within three days. the founders publish the cease-and-desist letters they receive from Hollywood studios on the site with mocking responses. They become folk heroes. 2009: trial begins. Hollywood shows up with lawyers. then things get interesting. it emerges mid-trial that the lead police investigator in the case had secretly taken a job with one of the plaintiff studios while the investigation was ongoing. the appeal judge was a member of the Swedish Copyright Association. the defendants screamed corruption. the court said it didn't matter. guilty. one year each. $4.2 million fine. None of them went. Gottfrid fled to Cambodia. Cambodia has no extradition treaty with Sweden. The Swedish government reportedly leveraged a $59 million aid grant to Cambodia to get him deported anyway. he came back in handcuffs. While evading his copyright sentence in Cambodia, he hacked Danish government systems police records, social security numbers, the Schengen border database. six months of access. When he was finally deported to Sweden and serving his copyright sentence, the Danish charges caught up with him. extradited again. convicted again. ended up doing three years across Swedish and Danish jails Fredrik fled to Laos. Then Thailand. arrested in 2014. deported. served 10 months. Peter stayed. served 8 months. came out and built Njalla — an anonymous domain registration service — because he said: "We're going the wrong way in society regarding people's right to be anonymous." The guy who ran the world's most pirated site came out of prison and built a privacy company. The Pirate Bay is still online.