List of awesome open-source Humane Tech projects

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Hurray! Awesome Humane Tech exists for 2 years :partying_face:

Since I created this project we have collected a total number of 178 great open-source projects, ethics and privacy resources, plus a number of links to other related link collections. If you haven’t visited the list, then you should definitely check it out:

So what did we add since the last update? It is a huge list…

Ethics

Privacy

  • GadgetBridge - Replaces gadget vendors’ closed source Android apps (Pebble, Mi Band, Liveview, HPlus and more).
  • DeepPrivacy - A fully automatic face anonymization technique for images and video.
  • PrivacyFlash Pro - Generate a privacy policy for your iOS app from its code.
  • Reveal Frame Component - A privacy-minded iFrame placeholder (JS script). Only loads after user consent.
  • FreedomBox - Easy to manage, privacy oriented home server.

Tracking

  • Shariff - Enables website users to share their favorite content without compromising their privacy.
  • Social Share Privacy - jQuery plugin for adding social share buttons that don’t allow social sites to track users.
  • EasyList - Sets of rules (originally designed for Adblock) that automatically remove unwanted content from the internet.
  • TrackMeNot - Browser extension that hides your real search-queries by adding noise and obfuscation.

Analytics

  • Koko Analytics - Plugin for WordPress that doesn’t use external services and respects your visitors’ privacy.
  • freshlytics - A self-hosted privacy-friendly, reliable and easy-to-deploy analytics service.
  • Plausible Insights - Simple, lightweight analytics service that respects your visitors’ privacy.
  • Goatcounter - Simple web statistics. No tracking of personal data.

Blocklists

Social networks

  • Minimal Twitter - Minimal Theme for the new Twitter UI.
  • Talk - An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation.
  • Invidious - An alternative front-end to YouTube without Ads.
  • Delta Chat - Decentralized Whatsapp-like chat via email, without the tracking and central control.
  • Nitter - An alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
  • Invidition - Firefox extension that redirects YouTube and Twitter requests to their alternatives.

Freedom

  • 996.ICU - Collection of resources advocating against 996 work schedule (9am – 9pm, 6 days per week).

Geolocation

  • Qwant Maps - A map application, based on OpenStreetMap, that respects your privacy.

Voice Assistants

  • Almond - The Stanford open, privacy-preserving virtual assistent.
  • Rhasspy - A fully offline voice assistant toolkit for many languages.

Internet of Things

  • Home Assistant - Home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

Health

  • ActivityWatch - An automated time-tracker that is cross-platform, extensible and privacy-focused.

Mindfulness

  • Detoxify - Generate a fake app to replace any addictive app.
  • Nudge - A Chrome extension that makes the internet less addictive.
  • SelfControl - A macOS app that lets you block your own access to distracting websites and mail servers.

Inclusiveness

  • The A11Y Project - A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.

Awareness

  • Where are the Eyes? - A program for detecting and mapping surveillance cameras.
  • IMSI-Catcher Detector - An Android app to detect IMSI-Catchers aka Stingrays (project in Alpha).
  • Dogsheep - Export data from big companies (e.g. Google, Twitter) into Sqlite for personal analytics.

Related awesomeness

  • degoogle - A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.
  • switching.software - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.