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SocialScrub.app

Protect yourself from doxxing by locking down your social media accounts.

Use the App

Launch Social Scrub (https://socialscrub.app) - No signup required. Your progress is saved locally in your browser.


What is Social Scrub?

Social Scrub is a privacy-focused web app that guides you through securing your social media accounts to prevent doxxing. It helps activists, journalists, and anyone concerned about online privacy systematically lock down their digital footprint.

How It Works

  1. Select your platforms - Choose from 130+ social media and online services
  2. Follow step-by-step guides - Complete 8 universal privacy steps for each platform:
    • Delete or keep the account
    • Change your display name
    • Replace your profile photo
    • Randomize your username
    • Use unique email addresses
    • Remove bio/location info
    • Clean up posts and photos
    • Hide friends lists
    • Adjust privacy settings
  3. Track your progress - Visual dashboard shows what you've secured

Privacy First

  • 100% local storage - Your data never leaves your device
  • No accounts required - Just bookmark the page to save progress
  • No tracking - We don't collect any analytics or personal information

Why This Matters

Doxxing (publishing someone's private information online) can lead to harassment, stalking, and real-world danger. Social Scrub helps you:

  • Break the links between your accounts that strangers can trace
  • Remove identifying information that can be combined to find you
  • Lock down privacy settings that platforms leave open by default

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Development

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+
  • Yarn

Setup

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Start development server
yarn dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Commands

  • yarn dev - Start development server
  • yarn build - Production build
  • yarn lint - Run ESLint
  • yarn test:run - Run tests

Tech Stack

  • Next.js 14 (App Router)
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vitest for testing

About

Walks you through the steps of scrubbing all of your social media accounts to help prevent doxxing and online harassment. (Project of https://activistchecklist.org/)

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