Guides

Guides to privacy

Messaging, home networks, devices, payments, account security, compartmentalization, address privacy, and threat-model-based privacy stacks.

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Start with these guides

These are the core guides that should not get buried as the library grows. Start here before jumping into individual topics like mobile devices, home networks, private payments, or address privacy.

Privacy Stack

Build Your Privacy Stack

Start here. A practical three-level path for building privacy from the basics into stronger separation systems.

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Entertainment Privacy

How to Watch YouTube More Privately

Separate YouTube from your main Google account, use browser separation, add uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock, and try FreeTube or Invidious.

Identity Exposure

Data Broker Cleanup

Freeze credit files, opt out of people-search sites, reduce exposed addresses and phone numbers, and maintain recurring cleanup.

Network Privacy

Harden Your Home Network

Router basics, safer DNS, guest networks, IoT separation, firmware updates, and simple home-network changes that reduce unnecessary household exposure.

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Upcoming guides

Mobile Devices

Lock Down Your Mobile Phone

GrapheneOS, hardened iOS, app permissions, carrier risk, location settings, and safer account recovery.

Coming soon

DNS Filtering

NextDNS Setup

Profiles, logs, blocklists, allowlists, rewrites, DNSSEC, native tracking protection, and bypass risks.

Coming soon

Physical Privacy

Address Privacy

Mailbox services, shipping names, address compartmentalization, business records, and reducing home-address exposure.

Coming soon