Protect yourself from doxxing by locking down your social media accounts.
Launch Social Scrub (https://socialscrub.app) - No signup required. Your progress is saved locally in your browser.
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.
- Select your platforms - Choose from 130+ social media and online services
- 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
- Track your progress - Visual dashboard shows what you've secured
- 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
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
- Activist Checklist - Comprehensive security guide for activists
- Doxxing Defense - Deep dive into protecting yourself from doxxing
- Node.js 18+
- Yarn
# Install dependencies
yarn install
# Start development server
yarn devOpen http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
yarn dev- Start development serveryarn build- Production buildyarn lint- Run ESLintyarn test:run- Run tests
- Next.js 14 (App Router)
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vitest for testing