Best of Privacy — July 2024

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    Self Hosting 101 - A Beginner's Guide

    Self-hosting allows individuals to run and maintain their own servers for various services, offering complete control over their data, independence from third-party services, and potential cost savings. It's suitable for privacy-conscious individuals, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and more. Although it requires technical knowledge, time, and upfront costs, it can be a rewarding and educational experience. Key steps include assessing needs, choosing hardware, setting up networking, implementing security measures, using container technologies like Docker, and joining self-hosting communities.

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    Self-hosted Open Source Alternatives to Google Photos

    To achieve a private Google Photos-like experience, consider using self-hosted, open-source alternatives like Immich, PhotoPrism, and Nextcloud Photos. These platforms offer varying features such as facial recognition, automatic backups, and mobile apps. Options like Chevereto and LibrePhotos cater to more simplistic needs, while Piwigo offers extensive customizability. Photoview and Lychee have their unique benefits, and Ente provides a hassle-free, encrypted cloud solution without the need for self-hosting.

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    Button Stealer

    Button Stealer is a free Chrome extension that collects buttons from every website you visit. It operates locally, ensuring that no data is sent elsewhere, thereby maintaining user privacy. It's a fun and harmless way to interact with your daily online activities.

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    Strflow — Note-Taking, Like Chatting

    Strflow is an intuitive note-taking app designed to make jotting down notes feel like chatting. It allows users to build a chronological timeline of their notes, tag specific topics, and sync across devices. Privacy is a key focus, with all data staying on user devices and iCloud, encrypted with iCloud Keychain. The app offers a range of features for free, with a Strflow Plus plan available for more advanced functionalities.

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    Introducing Plausible Community Edition

    Plausible Analytics is launching its self-hosted version, Plausible Community Edition (CE), under the AGPL license to prevent misuse by corporations. The CE version will have the same code as the managed cloud service but with some enterprise features and scalability tools excluded. This approach aims to protect Plausible's sustainability and brand integrity while continuing to offer a privacy-focused, open-source web analytics tool.

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    This Week in Self-Hosted (5 July 2024)

    This week's self-hosted recap includes software updates like Actual Budget's custom reports and Home Assistant's dashboard improvements. It also introduces new tools such as ButtonBox for running shell commands from a web interface and Medama for privacy-focused web analytics. The spotlight is on Dawarich, a platform for managing location history that integrates with Google Maps, Strava, and more. Plus, a handy command line tip on using the 'touch' command.

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    New Privacy Keyboard By Rossmann

    Rossmann discusses the unsettling discovery of Google logging and transcribing all voice data from his phone since 2009. He suggests using a new privacy-focused keyboard, developed by Futo, which employs local AI to avoid internet data transfer while maintaining high accuracy in voice-to-text conversion. The keyboard aims to reduce privacy invasions from big tech companies, offering an alternative to Google's services.

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    Introducing Ladybird: An Open-Source, Standards-Driven Web Browser

    The Ladybird Browser Initiative, co-founded by GitHub's Chris Wanstrath and SerenityOS's Andreas Kling, aims to create an independent, standards-driven web browser by 2026. Emphasizing performance, stability, and privacy, Ladybird rejects corporate funding, opting for sponsorships and donations. Development is ongoing with community involvement encouraged, and the organization operates as a non-profit to maintain independence and focus on user experience.

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    Private Browsing 2.0

    Safari's Private Browsing has been significantly enhanced with added privacy protections, including Link Tracking Protection, blocking network loads of known trackers, advanced fingerprinting protection, and improved handling of network privacy. Notably, Safari now prevents third-party scripts from reading the full URL and employs Web AdAttributionKit in Private Browsing for privacy-preserving ad attribution. With these updates, Safari aims to set a new industry standard for user privacy.

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    Top Artificial Intelligence AI Search Engines to Know in 2024

    AI search engines are transforming search experiences by utilizing machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning to interpret user queries more accurately. Notable AI search engines include Gemini, Bing AI, Komo, Yep, You.com, Phind, Neeva, Perplexity AI, and Andi. Each engine offers unique features ranging from privacy-focused results to sophisticated machine-learning techniques for developers. These tools are becoming increasingly important in obtaining personalized and context-aware search results.

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