Explores user-built alternatives like Nitter and Invidious that reclaim the web from corporate platforms by offering ad-free, privacy-focused interfaces.
A developer details their journey to further automate and secure their home network using Docker, Ansible, and AdGuard Home.
Explains Rust's module system, focusing on privacy rules and visibility modifiers for functions and nested modules.
A developer explains how to opt a website out of Google's FLoC tracking trial using a simple Nginx header configuration.
Learn how to disable anonymous telemetry data collection in Next.js using CLI commands or environment variables.
The article argues that current web analytics practices fail to meet ethical standards of informed consent and calls for industry reform.
A tech enthusiast details their project to build a secure, private home network using prosumer hardware and custom configurations.
A critique of DuckDuckGo's privacy and technical flaws, arguing for a new, truly open-source search engine with its own crawler.
Explores Google Analytics proxying, a technique to bypass ad-blockers for more accurate tracking, and discusses its ethical implications.
A developer recounts accidentally creating a spying app as a teenager while trying to solve the iPhone's 1000-SMS limit, exploring early mobile hacking.
Article critiques Google Analytics' privacy and performance costs, and explores ethical, self-hosted alternatives for website tracking.
A developer builds a privacy-focused web analytics system from scratch, avoiding cookies and PII to eliminate GDPR notices.
A review of privacy-focused alternatives to Google Analytics, including Plausible, GoatCounter, and Fathom.
A conceptual proposal for BitMaelum, a decentralized, privacy-focused email system designed to replace legacy infrastructure.
Analysis of Stripe's updated data collection disclosures and new opt-out feature for user tracking in their JavaScript library.
A developer shares the story behind building Writerie, a privacy-focused, distraction-free writing tool with Markdown and rich text editing.
Analysis of Stripe.js library's hidden data collection, including user browsing activity and mouse movements on client websites.
Analyzes the privacy and effectiveness issues of digital contact tracing, comparing location-based and proximity-based approaches.
A software expert's open letter opposing the EARN IT Act, arguing it threatens essential end-to-end encryption and digital freedoms.
A developer reflects on building and shutting down feediary, a privacy-focused RSS reader, due to low conversion to paid subscriptions.
