Tag: privacy

Self-host Jitsi Meet as your private Zoom alternative: encrypted video calls, no SaaS bill. Here's how to deploy it with Docker without it falling over.

Stop feeding Google your daily commute. OwnTracks + MQTT broker + Home Assistant gives you real presence detection without the surveillance capitalism overhead.

Wire a self-hosted SearXNG instance into Claude Code via a Bash wrapper for private, scriptable web search — and when to use it vs the built-in tool.

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared — pick the one that fits your threat model.

Immich vs PhotoPrism compared side-by-side: mobile app, ML face detection, Docker setup, and the real gotchas before you ditch Google Photos for good.

LinkedIn scans every visitor's installed extensions and sends the data to third parties without consent. Here's what they're looking for—and how to stop it.

Proxychains-ng, Tor, and VPN+Tor combos tested honestly: which setups actually anonymize traffic and which are security theater you should stop trusting.

Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative — self-hosted and SaaS — and which one actually fits your blog.

Browser ad blockers miss half the ads. DNS blocking kills them everywhere — TV, phone, game console, everything. Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: here's which one to run.

Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, Calendar, Maps, Analytics — all replaceable with self-hosted alternatives that don't report your life back to Mountain View.

Understand DoH, DoT, and DoQ encrypted DNS protocols and set up self-hosted encrypted DNS with AdGuard Home or Pi-hole. Stop your ISP from logging every domain you visit.

Set up a WireGuard VPN kill switch and prevent DNS leaks on Linux. Practical iptables rules, resolv.conf locking, and systemd-resolved config.