The Privacy Hypocrite Shame List
Companies that market themselves as privacy-focused but refuse to accept Monero — the only truly private money.
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Murena is supplying /e/OS smartphones, tablets, cloud storage, workspace with office suite & mobile device management claiming to be intuitive, privacy-friendly, and sustainable.
Why shamed: About Murena
We design smartphones and cloud services that put users’ privacy first.
We are committed to privacy with outstanding and transparent products and services that help people escape from digital surveillance.
No Monero. Available payment options are credit cards and PayPal.
We design smartphones and cloud services that put users’ privacy first.
We are committed to privacy with outstanding and transparent products and services that help people escape from digital surveillance.
No Monero. Available payment options are credit cards and PayPal.
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Generate text, images, characters and video using private and unbiased AI.
Why shamed: Claims to have "private AI" and has a strong focus on "privacy architecture" yet does not accept Monero. Instead, they accept Bitcoin.
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/site/nanogpt
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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes. HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005.
Why shamed: Their "Financial Freedom" program examines how authoritarian governments use economic controls to suppress dissent. These controls may include surveillance of financial activity, targeted asset freezes, inflationary currency policies, and the exclusion of critics, journalists, and civil society organizations from access to banking systems.
The program supports initiatives to increase financial resilience among human rights defenders, including training on the use of decentralized tools such as cryptocurrencies, encrypted digital wallets, and privacy-preserving technologies. It also promotes financial literacy for individuals operating in closed societies.
They accept donations in the form of traceable BTC, but do not mention Monero even once as a means of protecting dissidents. Their website is barely accessible via Tor.
The program supports initiatives to increase financial resilience among human rights defenders, including training on the use of decentralized tools such as cryptocurrencies, encrypted digital wallets, and privacy-preserving technologies. It also promotes financial literacy for individuals operating in closed societies.
They accept donations in the form of traceable BTC, but do not mention Monero even once as a means of protecting dissidents. Their website is barely accessible via Tor.
Never Added XMR
Digitale Gesellschaft (literally, Digital Society) is the German equivalent of the EFF.
Founded in 2010, it is committed to civil rights and consumer protection in terms of internet policy.
Founded in 2010, it is committed to civil rights and consumer protection in terms of internet policy.
Why shamed: On their “About Us” page, they state that they “fight all forms of surveillance.”
This appears to exclude data protection in the financial sector, as their campaigns never address this issue. Donations are accepted only via SEPA transfer or through the campaign funding platform “betterplace,” which offers no anonymity or data protection.
This appears to exclude data protection in the financial sector, as their campaigns never address this issue. Donations are accepted only via SEPA transfer or through the campaign funding platform “betterplace,” which offers no anonymity or data protection.
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Offers secure email.
Why shamed: "Regardless how you pay: We carry out every payment in a privacy-friendly way." 0 mention of Monero
Never Added XMR
End-to-end encrypted. Cross-platform. Open-source photo storage.
Why shamed: Provides encryption for photos but doesn't accept Monero.
Delisted XMR
Purism, is a computer technology corporation based in San Francisco.
Purism manufactures the Librem personal computing devices with a focus on software freedom, computer security, and internet privacy. In addition to hardware, Purism also maintains PureOS, an operating system along with Librem One, a suite of software as a service based on open standards.
Purism manufactures the Librem personal computing devices with a focus on software freedom, computer security, and internet privacy. In addition to hardware, Purism also maintains PureOS, an operating system along with Librem One, a suite of software as a service based on open standards.
Why shamed: Bold claims. Bold font size. At the center of their front page.
It reads: True Privacy. Real Security. Absolute Freedom.
Purism once a pioneer, accepting Monero directly ditched it for Coinbase commerce integration. Keeping marketing messages the same while degrading the product experience.
It reads: True Privacy. Real Security. Absolute Freedom.
Purism once a pioneer, accepting Monero directly ditched it for Coinbase commerce integration. Keeping marketing messages the same while degrading the product experience.
Never Added XMR
The most popular messenger service that advertises itself as a free speech advocate and encrypted messenger.
Why shamed: They keep advertising themselves as a heavily encrypted and private messenger. Also, Pavel Durov likes to hate whatsapp for not being private and free speech advocate on his blogs. They accept telegram stars, and a credit card for telegram premium.
Never Added XMR
One of the oldest and leading nonprofit defending
digital privacy, free speech.
digital privacy, free speech.
Why shamed: Still don't accept donations in Monero.
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X (a.k.a Twitter) is a free-speech and anti-censorship social media platform.
Why shamed: X (a.k.a Twitter) claims to be a free-speech and anti-censorship social media platform, yet you cannot pay for membership upgrades via Monero (XMR).
Delisted XMR
A multi-coin wallet
Why shamed: They previously had monero as a coin and delisted it and have gone so far as making tweets claiming freedom is the goal https://nitter.net/exodus/status/2030662016420000065#m
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/site/monero-gui-wallet
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Video platform emphasizing freedom of speech and fighting censorship.
Why shamed: They do not allow people to buy a subscription to their website using Monero (XMR), despite their strong condemnation of censorship.
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A Swiss end-to-end encrypted messenger
Why shamed: They claim to be a privacy based messenger and yet don't accept Monero but do accept bitcoin and cash and even give false claims when purchasing a Threema license claiming bitcoin is anonymous.
Never Added XMR
Subscription service for no-logs VPN, Personal Information Removal from data brokers, and Identity Theft Restoration assistance
Why shamed: They don't accept Monero, or any cryptocurrency for that matter.
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/vpns
Never Added XMR
Video platform emphasizing freedom of speech
Why shamed: No Monero support.
Great article by Sam Bent on their lack of Monero adoption: https://www.sambent.com/odysee-built-their-own-blockchain…
Great article by Sam Bent on their lack of Monero adoption: https://www.sambent.com/odysee-built-their-own-blockchain…
✅ Monero alternative:
https://invidious.io/donate/
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Firewall for the modern Internet
Why shamed: They only accept Bitcoin through the KYC processor Bitpay.
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Open-source USB key
Why shamed: They only accept Bitcoin and do not accept Monero.
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Privacy focused email service
Why shamed: They don't accept Monero.
They do accept Bitcoin, however they have no implementation and handle the payments manually. Perhaps they also would accept Monero if asked.
They do accept Bitcoin, however they have no implementation and handle the payments manually. Perhaps they also would accept Monero if asked.
Never Added XMR
Privacy focused browser, VPN, search engine, etc.
Why shamed: They don't accept Monero as payment for any of their services.
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/vpns
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A web wallet for cryptocurrency, built for the Brave browser
Why shamed: They don't support Monero. They did add shielded zcash support, but it seems like they have no interest in adding the dominant open source privacy tool for financial transactions.
On twitter, a developer asked about Monero: https://x.com/lukemulks/status/1870239083920056809.
There was never any follow up.
On twitter, a developer asked about Monero: https://x.com/lukemulks/status/1870239083920056809.
There was never any follow up.
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All-in-one security and privacy platform
Why shamed: They do not have any Monero support.
Delisted XMR
VPN Service
Why shamed: While previously a supporter of Monero, they dropped support in late 2022 for no particular reason.
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/vpns
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Popular encrypted messenging service
Why shamed: Signal launched a scam cryptocurrency called MobileCoin, which heavily lifted inspiration from Monero. Instead of integrating the already popular Monero into Signal, they instead received Series A funding for their project that has almost no usage today. Insiders likely pump and dumped the ghost chain. A premined centralized scam, into the trash it goes!
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Privacy search engine.
Why shamed: Last year, Sethforprivacy reported that Kagi was going to be adding Monero support. However after less than a year, they have quietly stopped working on this implementation and are no longer supporting Monero. They are still supporting Bitcoin and Bitcoin Lightning. They cited Bitcoin's current low transaction usage, and stated that "[they] did spend significant time looking into Monero and could not find a payment processor that checked all our boxes."
source: https://kagifeedback.org/d/493-enable-anonymous-payments-…
source: https://kagifeedback.org/d/493-enable-anonymous-payments-…
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Password Manager
Why shamed: They currently do not have any Monero support. They do have Bitcoin support.
✅ Monero alternative:
https://monerica.com/site/keepassdx