The most recent and I think hardest changes have been transitioning away from the google services because they are really good at what they do but the downside are the privacy concerns so in the end I don’t feel so bad about it. I just have to get adjusted to these new ones and I think it will be okay.
It took while to move out from the bitwarden and I’m glad it is finally done.
My current strategy is to keep the password file all the time encrypted and spread it to several devices. The most recent backup goes to cloud and from where I update it to the other machines and other backup methods. I don’t find it burden but actually fun because I know I have full control over them. Also, I wanted to move away from the browser extensions to be less fingerprintable and just use fewer extensions overall.
My long term goal which I will probably add here is that I focus more on the self hosting and services that are actually safe from leaks.
My another goal is to build linux phone from scratch and I have been researching this topic for while now. This is something I would like to build by myself. I would like to include physical killswitches too.
If you have any feed back or questions let me know
I recommend LibRedirect to make it easier for you to use the frontends. I think it blocks any network requests from the target site which is pretty cool.
Embedded redirection, when navigating within third-party websites
The former is what is the primary use case for LibRedirect, but embeds are a separate case. The term “target site” is ambiguous and could mean two options:
The main site, AKA, YouTube
Some random third-party site that uses YouTube embedded videos (or other embeds supported by LibRedirect)
The latter is not covered by default, it is opt-in, so for example, on Privacy Guides, if someone embeds a YouTube video in a topic, it will not redirect to an Invidious instance unless you have configured it to also redirect embeds as well.
I have not decided yet. I have been researching searxng which I would love to host locally without opening ports to the internet but I don’t know if it’s possible
But I’m also using the startpage sometimes.
What I really dislike is that where the search engines are heading because it is almost impossible to find mini blogs who have researched / shared their opinion on matter x or any other useful websites. Either the search results are generated with AI or they offer “centralized” websites (for example geeksforgeeks with programming related questions)
You may have already seen it but have you had a look at Kagi? It has a “small web” lens which specifically searches for things like personal blogs or small independent sites.
It’s paid of course but I have to say, as a doubter for a long time and only a recent convert, I absolutely love it. The results are great, it’s privacy focussed and it’s incredibly customizable. If you want to you can even write custom CSS to make it look exactly how you want, I’ve had a lot of fun with that feature recently.
Sort of… From what I have gathered (I don’t use Entered Locker) it is a mix between “traditional cloud storage” like google drive, but with E2EE[1] and something more like bitwarden or proton pass and thier “secure vaults”.
Yes, you need to set the SearXNG’s IP address to 127.0.0.1, which than resolves to localhost. After deployment, you can navigate to http://localhost:port, where port is the container port number you assigned SearXNG with.
Right, if you want to take matters into your own hands, you may want to use your own crawler and indexer, although you may discover that truly independent voices are few and far between.
I use DuckDuckGo a lot, and I’ve started to report AI generated websites. They have that in their feedback menu. However, this does not seem to do anything. They’re still showing up in results and I’m probably one of a few people reporting them.
For the record. Embeds are not redirected because it would be a process of injecting scripts to replace embeds.
For normal redirections, it only changes the URL. As a matter of trust, we disabled embed redirections by default. Since we haven’t started to port to Mv3.
