Privacy shouldn't be the exception

Most software decides how private you get to be, and it rarely decides in your favor. The default is watched: logged, measured, profiled, and quietly monetized, unless you know exactly which settings to hunt down and switch off.

Private by Choice is where I build the opposite — software where privacy is the starting point, not a setting you have to go looking for. Tools that don't phone home, don't treat your data as theirs to borrow, and don't ask you to become an expert just to be left alone.

The name is the whole idea: privacy should be something you choose, on purpose — not a privilege you're granted, a subscription you're upsold, or a right you have to claw back one checkbox at a time.

Some of what I build here quietly powers my own sites. All of it is meant to be useful to you, too — self-hostable, inspectable, and honest about what it does and doesn't do.

Have a look around. The projects are on GitHub, the thinking behind them is on the About page, and there's more on the way.