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Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers (networks.imdea.org)
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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Been running an AWS Lightsail instance for years, and before that on prem. Don't even notice it's running! But when I see other people's internet experience I'm left thinking, "What's all this crap?!"

Ex-wife was bitching about my "blueberry pie" or whatever fucking up FaceBook links. FINE. Turned it off. "The internet's slow!" Looked over her shoulder:

"See all that stuff loading? Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad..."

"FINE! Turn it back on!"

Haven't logged into my instance for a year or more, no maintenance. Going to move it back to a Raspberry Pi or a VM when I get motivated. On Windows 11 now and M$ totally hosed Hyper-V for desktop operating systems and I don't want to spin another computer.

tl;dr: WELL worth spending an evening on the project. Hardest part is spinning up a Debian or Ubuntu server, VM or bare metal. The install is hilariously simple.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net/ | bash
[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Comically enough I didn't think about it long, I actually had it up and running on my jellyfin server by 11 this morning. Haven't played with it much yet just set my router DNS to it.

So now it's my jellyfin/Files/Caddy/DNS server. It's an old HP laptop my spouse has that I just hard wired and remote into using RustDesk. Works great even though the network cards arent great, and most of the storage is just an external USB drive.