Your home Wi-Fi isnt nearly as private as it should be - 6 free ways to lock it down
Summary
This article explains six free ways to improve privacy across a home network. It recommends hardening browsers, using secure apps, enabling private DNS, blocking ads and trackers at the network level, switching to privacy-focused search tools, and deploying a dedicated firewall. The piece emphasizes that privacy now requires work across both devices and the LAN. It points readers to software and open-source tools such as Brave, Signal, Bitwarden, Pi-hole, AdGuard, YaCy, OPNsense, IPFire, pfSense, and VyOS.
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industries
Entertainment
applications
Anti Piracy
AskAI Classifications
Labels
Browser Extensions
Cybersecurity Software
Privacy Software
Linked Companies
NoScript
up to $1M
Rubicon Communications, LLC
$10M to $25M
VyOS
$1M to $5M
IPFire
up to $1M
uBlock Origin
n/a