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Regain some privacy online

How can you regain ownership about your data and behavior online? Here is how I did it.

DIY NAS (Ubuntu 20.04 + mergerfs + snapraid)

This is a rough overview about my self build 6-Bay NAS (with external 4-Bay hard drive USB enclosure for backup drives). I build it from scratch with focus on low cost, low power consumption but still good performance Total capacity currently: 65TB A...

Email

Regain some privacy online

Use a secure and privacy focused email provider (list of suggested providers). My recommendation: Steps to change your email provider (to protonmail) 1. Register a new account. Think about registering two accounts. One to use for personal and official af...

Instant Messenger

Regain some privacy online

My recommendation: Signal Download: Google Play Store | Apple Store | Desktop Why should you use Signal? Privacy of your data.  Signal does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data or content in any way. Furthermore, it does not store any of your da...

Password Manager

Regain some privacy online

Always use unique, long and difficult to guess passwords for each account you own. To make your life easier handling all these passwords: Use a password manager! My recommendation: Bitwarden  

Cloud

Regain some privacy online

My recommendation: Nextcloud

Google Privacy Settings

Regain some privacy online

Share as less data as possible with google. Here are my recommendations for how to configure your google settings. 1. Go to your Google Dashboard 2. Change the following services: Calendar (export and delete all existing calendars) [only on switch to other ...

Calendar/Contacts

Regain some privacy online

My recommendation: Nextcloud

Browser

Regain some privacy online

My recommendation: Firefox Install the following extensions: Privacy Badger - Automatically block invisible trackers HTTPS Everywhere - Always use HTTPS as default uBlock Origin - Ad blocker, removes advertisements (Bitwarden - Password manager) Set duck...

Software

DIY NAS (Ubuntu 20.04 + mergerfs + snap...

This is a quick overview about what software I am using and why. Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 I used openmediavault (omv) in the past, but the process of upgrading from one version to another seemed tedious and the fact that the version of Debian omv was ...

Hardware

DIY NAS (Ubuntu 20.04 + mergerfs + snap...

NAS Images     Components Component Model CPU Intel Core i3-10100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core CPU Cooler Noctua NH-L9i Mainboard ASRock H510M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1200 Memory Crucial RAM CT8G4DFRA266 8GB DDR4 2666 MHz CL19 Case ...

Replace data disk

DIY NAS (Ubuntu 20.04 + mergerfs + snap...

What happend? I have a nightly cronjob configured to execute a script which runs a SnapRAID sync and scrub when some requirements are met (e.g. number of deleted files do not exceed a threshold) and sends me an email to notify me about what happend during...