A guide for developers on updating apps for Android 12, covering UI changes with Material You, privacy updates, and performance monitoring.
A technical guide on installing and configuring Searx, a privacy-focused metasearch engine, on an AWS EC2 instance.
Signal's new sponsorship model is a sustainable alternative to ad-based revenue, ensuring user privacy and long-term viability.
A critical analysis of the 4privacy Kickstarter project, examining its privacy promises, technology, and potential economic and trust challenges.
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.
A tech enthusiast details their project to build a secure, private home network using prosumer hardware and custom configurations.
The article argues that current web analytics practices fail to meet ethical standards of informed consent and calls for industry reform.
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.
