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Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by 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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[–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that I care a lot less about whether I own the device or the ISP. I’ll happily root the fucking thing. What are they going to do, send me to a competitor? I have 3 different networks I can connect from at any moment (including hotspots), so I’m not worried about a minor lapse due to ISP temper tantrums.

I will tell them casually too. I don’t want their support. I pay for internet access, it’s their problem if they try to make my access conditional beyond that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    We all go our own ways. Over the later years I’ve added features and with it the inevitable complexity. Self-hosting my own data has made my care more about what goes on in my network. I am not quite at the stage of adding VLAN’s but it will probably come.

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