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Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi there, I’m looking to get into self-hosting for privacy reasons and I wanted to ask y’all: how inadvisable is it to utilize an ISP-owned router/modem? I feel like they’re able to track everything I do online with their more than likely integrated spyware.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

because it just raises questions and confusion.

This. I think, waay back in the day, down voting was a way to filter bad information. Whenever I see a down vote on something I've said, I'm always left wondering if I gave erroneous information, was I out in the weeds smokin' crack? I'm always down for being educated.

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