Tag: privacy

Stop letting Google Maps know where you've been. Pair OsmAnd on your phone with self-hosted tiles for offline-first maps that don't snitch on you.

Wire local Nominatim into Home Assistant for reverse geocoding without leaking GPS coords to Google or Mapbox. Privacy-respecting smart home in 30 lines.

Stop letting Google see where every photo was taken. Immich geocodes locally by default; PhotoPrism sends fuzzed coordinates to its own hosted service.

SimpleLogin vs addy.io compared on verified September 2026 pricing, free-tier limits, and what self-hosting each one actually costs you in moving parts.

Discord's age checks sent people looking for exits. Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix and Mumble compared on features, hosting, and whether your community follows.

Run a Tor v3 onion service for your self-hosted apps. Working torrc and Compose config, client authorization, vanity addresses, and the opsec that doxxes you.

Anubis puts a proof-of-work gate in front of your site. Real policy file config, weights and thresholds, Caddy wiring, and the false positives you hit.

GrapheneOS hardens Android on Pixels. The web installer, re-locking the bootloader, sandboxed Google Play, banking app attestation, and what actually breaks.

Brave, LibreWolf, and Mullvad Browser compared on fingerprinting, telemetry, and sync, plus the extension stack and about:config tweaks that matter.

Plausible and Umami both have funnels now. What self-hosted Matomo actually buys you, what its premium plugins cost, and a Compose setup that holds up.

Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive.

Free AI tiers are loans against a future price, paid in your data, your architecture, or your time. Here's the collateral to check before you build on one.