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r/DigitalPrivacy

This is a community for digital privacy enthusiasts of any age and experience level, from any walk of life or lifestyle. Discussing all things related to digital privacy and data security, including password managers, encrypted communication tools, data removal, secure email, and more. Founded 2024 · 69.4K members

67.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.9K upvotes, which works out to 131 per 1,000 members.

131peak upvotes per 1,000 members
67.8Kmembers
8.9Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
197posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 26% 13% 12%
Link 40% Text 26% Image 13% Video 12% Question 7% Gallery 2%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it.

↑ 8.9K 💬 670 video 2026

this is insane. why privacy scares them do much

↑ 5.3K 💬 667 image 2026

Regular people get searched like terrorists at airports. Why does crossing a national border erase all of your rights and pricacy?

↑ 4.9K 💬 1.1K video 2026

A woman made a joke in a private Snapchat message. Snapchat’s AI reported it to the FBI. She was arrested before any human she sent it to ever report…

↑ 4.7K 💬 518 image 2026

Thoughts upon this? This sounds quite sus under the name of "safety"

↑ 4.6K 💬 1.2K image 2026

Palantir is built to blackmail ordinary citizens

↑ 4.4K 💬 67 image 2026

Spider-Man just ran facial recognition on an entire city and the movie thought it was awesome

↑ 3.2K 💬 208 text 2026

“The rise of surveillance capitalism must be stopped. Charging obscene airfare because the algorithm knows you're going to a funeral should be illega…

↑ 3K 💬 12 video 2026

Edward Snowden warned humanity that the infrastructure for a Chinese-style social credit system was being constructed in plain view

↑ 2.9K 💬 86 video 2026

"When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy..." - Edward Snowden

↑ 2.7K 💬 46 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/DigitalPrivacy, in numbers

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What is r/DigitalPrivacy?
r/DigitalPrivacy describes itself this way: This is a community for digital privacy enthusiasts of any age and experience level, from any walk of life or lifestyle. Discussing all things related to digital privacy and data security, including password managers, encrypted communication tools, data removal, secure email, and more. It was founded in 2024 and has 69.4K members.
How many members does r/DigitalPrivacy have?
r/DigitalPrivacy has about 67.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 197 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.9K upvotes, which is 131 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DigitalPrivacy?
"Mossad has accidentally injected data into a French lawyer's phone instead of extracting it." reached 8.9K upvotes and 670 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DigitalPrivacy.
What subreddits are similar to r/DigitalPrivacy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/DigitalPrivacy?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are link posts and 26% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DigitalPrivacy?
Across 197 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 00:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 03:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/DigitalPrivacy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DigitalPrivacy has 955 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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