Tag: privacy

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.

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.

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

Your DNS queries go out in plain text, so your ISP logs every site you visit. This covers how DoH, DoT, and DoQ fix that, and how to self-host with AdGuard Home.

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

Compare Plausible vs Umami for self-hosted, privacy-friendly web analytics. Ditch Google Analytics and keep your users' data off ad networks.

Stop texting passwords. Set up Vaultwarden organizations to share credentials with family or your team: collections, member roles, the bw CLI, and backups.

Why trust a cloud with your passwords? Compare Vaultwarden and Bitwarden self-hosted, lightweight vs full-stack, Docker setup, backups, and which one to actually run.

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

Discord tracks what you're running. Here's how to turn off activity status, game detection, and telemetry so your app habits stay private.