Tag: privacy

NextDNS vs Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: an honest breakdown of when paying two dollars a month beats running and maintaining your own DNS server from home.

Ditch reCAPTCHA data harvesting for good. Here are the best self-hosted and privacy-respecting CAPTCHA alternatives for your home lab web apps in 2026.

cloudflared vs dnscrypt-proxy for encrypted DNS at home, setup steps, threat model, Pi-hole integration, and which one actually fits your home lab setup.

Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.

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.

Invidious, Piped, Redlib, and Nitter status in 2026: which privacy frontends still work, which died from API changes, and how to self-host the survivors.

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.