Posts Tagged "Privacy"

What About Anonymous Blogging?

Have you ever thought about blogging anonymously? I blog under my real name, but wonder if that could have held me back...

09 Apr 2024 | Blog post

Email Privacy

Niq talks about segregating your email and not publishing your personal email where possible. One email address ain't gonna cut it these days.

09 Mar 2024 | Link post

What's the Point?

I’m a proud privacy advocate, but recently I’ve been wondering what’s the point? It’s a losing battle…

01 Jul 2022 | Blog post

Is DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckDone?

DuckDuckGo, the privacy centric search firm have been found to be allowing Microsoft trackers through their browser. It’s dishonest, and I’m really disappointed.

25 May 2022 | Blog post

How To Restore The Default PiHole Block List

PiHole is awesome. I use it on my Synology via Docker and it's been working great for years. But what if you get a little too trigger happy with the block list and end up with too many? In this post I'll show you how to restore the default PiHole block list.

14 Jul 2021 | Blog post

Why I Delete Old Content

Yesterday, I asked Fosstodon if anyone knows of a tool that can automatically delete content from Mastodon.

13 Jun 2021 | Blog post

How To Setup Pi-hole On A Synology NAS

Using a Pi-hole on your network is a great way of blocking adverts and protecting you from tracking at a network level. In this post I'm going to take you through setting up Pi-hole on a Synology NAS using Docker.

21 Aug 2020 | Blog post

Implementing The IndieWeb Into My Website

I wanted to utilise the IndieWeb to take ownership of my data and to make may site more connected. This post talks about how I've managed to do that.

11 Apr 2020 | Blog post

De-Googling My Life - 2 Years On

I first started De-Googling my life back in September 2017. It's now been nearly 2.5 years since I completed that process, so I thought it was time for an update.

21 Mar 2020 | Blog post

Privacy & Security Are Different - Round 2

I recently wrote a post explaining that I think Privacy & Security Are Different. Following that post I've received some feedback questioning my rationale. This post is a response to some of that feedback.

24 Dec 2019 | Blog post

Privacy & Security Are Different

I regularly see people using the terms Privacy and Security interchangably online. I wanted to take a couple of minutes to explain the differences between the two.

17 Dec 2019 | Blog post

What Is Self-Hosting?

What actually is "self-hosting"? It means different things to different people. This is what it means to me...

26 Oct 2019 | Blog post

Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook

Facebook is the worst place on the internet. It's a privacy vortex of doom and here are just SOME of the reasons why you sholdn't use it,

12 Oct 2019 | Blog post

How Browser Fingerprinting Works

Browser fingerprinting is the process of collecting information about a remote device for identification purposes. Here's how it works...

25 Sep 2019 | Blog post

How Online Tracking Works

I'm going to try and explain how online tracking works. I think I have a relatively good understanding of things, but it's a complicated subject, so I'll try and keep it as simple as possible.

07 Sep 2019 | Blog post

Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide”

A recent post received numerous comments asking why I was so concerned about privacy and asking what I have to hide. Here's my reply...

21 Feb 2019 | Blog post

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