No Meat Athlete

Plant-based diets and fitness.

The Borrowed Abode

DIY and interior design for renters.

The Minimalists

Living a meaningful life with less.

Zen Habits

Practical advice for developing positive habits.

FastMail

Reliable business email with no data lock-in.

Jami

Telephone, teleconferencing, and media sharing through a distributed service.

Jitsi Meet

Secure video conferencing and desktop sharing using WebRTC.

ProtonMail

Free encrypted email.

Signal

Private messaging and calling for desktop, Android, and iOS.

Telegram

Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.

Tox

Encrypted and distributed messaging platform with voice, video, and screen sharing.

Wire

Text, audio, and video communication with end-to-end encryption.

Write.as

Blogging platform that allows you to publish ideas without distraction.

Mega

50 GB of secure free storage (in which 35 GB will expire after 30 days). Files are encrypted client-side. More (non-permanent) space can be claimed from achievements.

qBittorrent

Free and open source BitTorrent client.

Amaze File Manager

Open source, Material Design file explorer for Android devices.

Bible

Bible reader with many versions and languages to choose from.

Simple Mobile Tools

Open source Android utilities: gallery, contacts, calendar, and more.

Libre.fm

Stream, download, remix, and share music for free.

mStream

Suite of software for syncing and streaming music across multiple devices.

Disroot

Collection of ethical alternatives to email, cloud storage, collaborative document editing, and more.

Adbusters

Magazine about the takeover of psychological, physical, and cultural environments by commercial forces.

Aeon

Digital magazine that publishes original thinking on science, philosophy, society, and the arts.

Armstrong Economics

Educational blog about markets and the global economy.

Common Dreams

Progressive news website.

Consumerist

Independent source of consumer news and information.

Ello

Media platform for creators and artists that does not sell user data.

Popular Resistance

Independent, nonviolent, and diverse movements to end the power of concentrated wealth and put human needs before corporate greed.

RealSport

Fans write articles on football, basketball, cricket, e-sports, motorsports, and most other sports out there. This site is committed to maintaining an experience free of pop-ups, fake news, click-bait, and ads.

The Conversation

High quality, authenticated, explanatory journalism funded by universities.

OpenStreetMap

Map of the world created by users and released under an open license.

Wikipedia

Encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Wiktionary

Dictionary that anyone can edit.

Weather.gov

Weather reports for places in the United States.

Are.na

Visual platform to help you think about and organize online content.

diaspora*

Feeds, likes, profiles, and tags; you are in control of your data.

GNUsocial.no

Allows users to connect and share with each other; expenses are covered by donations.

Libranet

Popular site running friendica, a federated Facebook-style social network.

Lobsters

Simple link aggregation site with explanations required to downvote.

Manyverse

Off the grid social network.

Mastodon

Decentralized microblogging platform similar to Twitter.

PixelFed

Essentially Instagram without ads, trackers, or modified timelines.

Etherpad

Collaborative document editing in real-time.

ProtectedText

Online encrypted notepad with storage and no sign up.

Cloverleaf

An open source app to replace your password manager without storing your passwords anywhere.

bundlejs

A quick and easy way to bundle, minify, and compress (gzip and brotli) your ts, js, jsx and npm projects all online, while returning the final bundle file size.

Add-Art

Replaces ads with art.

uBlock Origin

General-purpose blocker that removes ads and privacy-invading trackers by default.

A Call for Revolt: Advertising is the Anti-Minimalism

Opt-out of the advertising game.

Can We Have an Honest Conversation About Advertisements?

Clean City Law: Secrets of São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban

Conscious Success

Explores the idea of conscious success rather than accidental success, using ads as an example.

Criticism of Advertising on Wikipedia

Overview of common criticisms of advertising.

Human Ad Block: A Tutorial

Creative ways to block ads in public.

Public Spaces

Artist imagines what it would be like if we could have a real life ad blocker.

Saying Goodbye to $100K Per Year in Easy Income

Story of a blogger who chose a better way to make a living.

Vote With Your Wallet, Not Your Ad Blocker

Paying for ad-free services casts a bigger vote.

What If There Were No Ads

Daily life described in an ad-free world.

Why no advertising?

Through the perspective of the perfect-world ideal.

Gandi

Domain registrar with a No Bullshit policy.

Kakulas Legal

Law firm that you won't find in the yellow pages.

Polyface Farms

Environmentally-friendly farm that relies on word of mouth to reach customers.

Anti-Advertising Agency

Calls into question the purpose and effects of advertising in public space.

Brandalism

International street art collective that subverts advertising in urban space.

Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight

Defending the urban landscape of Los Angeles from a proliferation of billboards.

Digital Public Library Project

Promotes a Digital Public Library system that can replace advertising funded media.

Résistance à l'Agression Publicitaire

French organization fighting the advertising system and its negative effects.

Flattr

Browser add-on that distributes a monthly budget to websites you engage with the most.

Liberapay

Open source recurring donations platform.

OpenCollective

Enables groups to set up a collective, raise funds, and manage them transparently.

Patreon

Recurring funding for artists and creators on either a monthly basis or per creation.

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

What if there was no advertising?

No More Ads

Practical advice for an ad-free internet. (Wayback Machine archive)

Voltra

DRM-free music listening and discovery software that supports artists directly.

Art Not Ads

Artists creating change in the urban landscape, but not by going after the ads themselves. (Wayback Machine archive)

Goblin Refuge

Video and image sharing service powered by MediaGoblin. (Wayback Machine archive)