Exit Chat Control

A free, trilingual (EN / FR / NL) guide to escape Chat Control and take back control of your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, 2FA, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting, and more. Every tool is presented with what it does, who it's for, and how to install it.

🔗 Live site: https://exitchatcontrol.org

What is this?

On 9 July 2026, the European Parliament let "Chat Control" through, opening the door to the scanning of private messages across the EU. This project is a practical, no-nonsense answer: a single, self-contained web page that references privacy-respecting tools anyone can use to opt out of mass surveillance, from the everyday citizen to the whistleblower.

It is intentionally simple: no tracking, no dependencies, no build step. Just open index.html.

Repository

• index.html — the full guide (a standalone website).
• article-presse.md — a ready-to-publish, actionable article (for a blog, a newsletter, or an X Article).
• images/ — screenshots used in the guide.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. If you know a useful app that helps circumvent Chat Control or protect privacy, please open a Pull Request (or an Issue) to add it. I review every submission personally.

To be accepted, an app must meet three simple rules:

1. It has traction — an established, actively maintained project with a real user base, not an obscure or abandoned tool.
2. It is open source.
3. It is privacy-respecting.

That's it. If it ticks those three boxes and genuinely helps people escape surveillance, it belongs here.

How to contribute:

• Fork the repo, add a tool card in index.html following the existing format (logo, "what it does", "why", "who it's for", install steps), then open a PR.
• Not comfortable with code? Just open an Issue with the app's name, its link, and why it qualifies (traction + open source + privacy), and I'll add it.

Roadmap

Right now, the goal is deliberately narrow: reference useful apps to circumvent Chat Control, on one clean, fast page.

Later, the site will be refactored to support more:

• Full written guides
• Dedicated pages for each application
• Step-by-step tutorials

This single-page version is the foundation the rest will be built on.

Running it yourself

It's a static site (one index.html, plus an images/ folder). Host it on any static host (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages) or serve it behind a reverse proxy. No build, no dependencies.

License

See LICENSE.

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Privacy is a right, not a confession. To encrypt is to vote. To self-host is to disobey. To reclaim your tools is to become ungovernable.