Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online?

• Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

  11 3,599 7.6

  https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

  It's a pain to do, but it really helps to opt out of data broker lists. I have a reminder to do this once per year, and only the "diff" of my life updates show up (e.g. address reappears because I moved, changed voter registration as a result, etc).

• Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li

  3 - -

  https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

  It's a pain to do, but it really helps to opt out of data broker lists. I have a reminder to do this once per year, and only the "diff" of my life updates show up (e.g. address reappears because I moved, changed voter registration as a result, etc).

• InfluxDB

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• Pi-hole

  198 46,632 8.0 Shell

  A black hole for Internet advertisements

  

• Bitwarden

  101 14,259 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

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  5) It would be better if we used one of those self-hosted random email generators to prevent maliciously constructed email domains at our catch-all instilling false confidence.

  6) I'd like to install PiHole [2].

  7) I have a Twilio number that goes straight to voice mail and sends me the audio files and forwards SMS. I'd like to create these for my family (maybe using extension numbers?) so they can use them on forms.

  [0] https://bitwarden.com/

• nextdns

  95 2,885 7.3 Go

  NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

  

  If you can’t find time to getting Pi-hole going, check out NextDNS, which is only $1.99 a month and very configurable (if you want. It also has sensible defaults.)

  https://nextdns.io

• WorkOS

  workos.com

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