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I personnaly host all my data: * I have my personnal email server * I use nextcloud to synchronize my contacts, calendars and file * I have a XMPP server and ma

by boudin 9y ago

I personnaly host all my data: * I have my personnal email server * I use nextcloud to synchronize my contacts, calendars and file * I have a XMPP server and manage to convince a few people to use it * I host my own VPN that I use from all my devices * I use searx for searches with no google, bing, yahoo behind I try to avoid using any services that try to analyse my behaviour (so no music service like spotify, no video service like netflix, no social medias, no closed messaging service...) I use ublock on my browsers in paranoid mode (block all third parties and having to whitelist what's needed for a website to work) My phone is an android on which i've installed lineage with no gapps and i use fdroid to get apps All this is a pain to manage (at least i learnt a lot managing all this) and can't definitely be done by people who are not interrested by the technical side It's also quite restrictive and definitly cut myself from a lot of friends. I still find it worthwhile though and am not interested in stopping hosting my own services. For me the main issue is that the web isn't privacy friendly at all by default, trying to make it so is not easy and is not something my parent, for example, can do, even if they want to. Right now Facebook is under the spotlights, but it's the scapegoat of a whole data business. I don't know why I should trust twitter with it's tracking buttons everywhere. Why should i trust CDN that centralise queries from a lot of websites. Why should i trust all those services plugged into websites? My feeling is that it can only be solved and usable by non technical people by having standards for a specific need and that does not allow this level of tracking rather than continue developping "everything" standards that HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS are becoming.

gear54rus 9y ago
If the concern is them tracking you for advertising purposes, why not simply train yourself to reject all ads (blocking the most intrusive ones with adblock)? And then when you really decide that you need something, use all that privacy contraptions you are using currently to try and find what you are looking for without fear of being manipulated. That's what I've opted for anyway. Am I missing something? Perhaps spam calls are a problem in this case, but I've never gotten it yet thankfully.
- boudin 9y ago
  I already block as much ad as I can (i use ublock in browsers for that), but tracking goes further than just ads unfortunatly. I use my VPN for 2 reasons: * host some services at home behind a non static IP * my ISP "steal" ip addreses to implement country-wide website blocking, which mean that their own routing can't be trusted I use my own DNS server also because: * of obvious tracking reasons * the same ISP leak data to yahoo when a domain can't be resolved (which means that it's a lying DNS server that can't be trusted neither) I just meant that I'm using is what I consider to be an acceptable solution to browse the web, but those are incredibely complex for the sole purpose of having a bit of privacy... And most of it has quite a limited effect to be honest. Having your own mail server for example is a bit useless since most people uses gmail, hotmail or something as bad. In the end, the main benefit is having providing yourself a better service than those... I still find the exercise of having control over as much data as possible quite interesting though.

by boudin 9y ago

gear54rus 9y ago

If the concern is them tracking you for advertising purposes, why not simply train yourself to reject all ads (blocking the most intrusive ones with adblock)? And then when you really decide that you need something, use all that privacy contraptions you are using currently to try and find what you are looking for without fear of being manipulated. That's what I've opted for anyway. Am I missing something? Perhaps spam calls are a problem in this case, but I've never gotten it yet thankfully.

boudin 9y ago
I already block as much ad as I can (i use ublock in browsers for that), but tracking goes further than just ads unfortunatly. I use my VPN for 2 reasons: * host some services at home behind a non static IP * my ISP "steal" ip addreses to implement country-wide website blocking, which mean that their own routing can't be trusted I use my own DNS server also because: * of obvious tracking reasons * the same ISP leak data to yahoo when a domain can't be resolved (which means that it's a lying DNS server that can't be trusted neither) I just meant that I'm using is what I consider to be an acceptable solution to browse the web, but those are incredibely complex for the sole purpose of having a bit of privacy... And most of it has quite a limited effect to be honest. Having your own mail server for example is a bit useless since most people uses gmail, hotmail or something as bad. In the end, the main benefit is having providing yourself a better service than those... I still find the exercise of having control over as much data as possible quite interesting though.