Let’s imagine we live in a world the American government is not the American government so you can trust what American companies say when they talk about protecting your privacy and so on…

  • irmadlad@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Search is where I’m stuck

    Run/self host Searxng on a cheapass VPS. I picked up one for testing before production a long time ago, runs me $25/year. Spin up Docker, Portainer, and Searxng in an hour or less. Add your Searxng instance to Firefox search engine and make it default. Secure the VPS with UFW, Fail2Ban, and if you’re the only user, make use of the host.allow and host.deny files to pretty much weed out the baddies. Jack’s a doughnut, Bob’s your uncle.

    I don’t hear a lot of noise about self hosting here in the Privacy chan, but if you’re looking to cut out corporate services from your repertoire, self hosting is a great way.