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without explain, It’s a product under facebook management and both of its CEOs left (the people who created what’sapp) after some time and later it turned out they left because facebook wants to feed more on users data so yup its bad! the new terms is going to take your battery status, the strength of power of your internet, the version of whats’app, the browsers, the phone number, what sim you use (like provider), ISP, Language, Time, IP, and any relations with facebook and i’m sure more like contacts and others

Thanks - that's helpful.

Have you got any suggestions regarding best practice for configuring an internet available home web server on a home network from a security perspective?

For example, could I create two separate networks (I'm not sure how this would be accomplished): one exclusively for the web server, that I could connect to with with my laptop when I want to SSH into it, and; a second for my home devices?

Thanks for your help.

You want to use stuff that you need to use and still be private. This is quite a challenge because Microsoft, Adobe and to an extent, Apple does not care about your privacy. It is still quite doable.

First, do consider a Linux host system for your desktop to virtualize the Windows and Hackintosh. The reason to do this is to do image backups (via something like ZFS or maybe BTRFS). Windows has this tendency to commit suicide so having the capability to completely rollback changes to the OS at the VM level is good to have. You need a computer with lots of cores to achieve similar enough speed in your renders. You can offload the Handbrake, VLC and torrent software to the host Linux OS itself.

For the iphone, I would suggest:

Use a VPN software (that uses the IKEv2 protocol)
Install Lockdown 9 to block the tracking and telemetry.
Use Firefox for browsing instead of Safari and use it to browse the FB, Whatsapp and Youtube instead of using the app version.
Install cryptomator to encrypt contents in DropBox and Google Drive/Google One. Consider using something like Nextcloud 2 as replacement especially if you do not have a lot of online storage requirements. Maybe check out the enterprise version if it is worth it for you.
Your banking app stays because it might trigger some weird fraud protection scheme if you do something weird with it.
Consider moving on to a better email providers instead of remaining on GMail. Just transfer all your online accounts to whatever you choose. There is no need to totally delete Google for now (Google already has your personal data and there is no verifiable way for you to know if you they can actually delete your personal data).
Consider making an Android VM to your pc (via Androidx86) to access Instagram (which cannot be accessed via a desktop computer).
The iPad should probably stay as is and also install Firefox, Lockdown and another VPN provider as well. Also remove the Youtube app and just watch straight from the browser.

Finally, also consider using the following devices:

A new smartphone instead of iPhone. Google Pixel with Graphene OS 1. I havent used this myself though but I will try to remigrate my device once my old Lineage phone dies.
Raspberry Pi 4 + PiHole 1 - Use these to provide local network-wide DNS blocking for trackers and telemetry in all your devices. This is like what lockdown is, but for desktop. Previously you could edit the host file in microsoft but they have since then blocked modifications to it that pertains to telemetry.

That's not browsing history, exactly, it's just a list of domains that have been resolved. It will likely include plenty of sites you never explicitly visited along with those you did. I would also presume that the /flushdns option to ipconfig would clear that out, since it's designed to clear the DNS cache, which is what you would be displaying.

Of course that only takes care of records on YOUR computer. There are still plenty of records existing on every other server your system has ever communicated with. The Internet was not designed to be anonymous or even all that secure, despite its military origins. The only real way to be truly anonymous on the Internet is to not be on the Internet.

And what do you think about the negative army of those, who hate that soft because of the closed source and tell everyone it's a scam not even trying?

Wow! You're a real expert in that field as I can see! Thanks for sharing, I'll follow your blog from now.
Keep going

Repeating once again, they differ in price and the countries list they provide. So you have to choose the one with a concrete country if needed, then choose the best price for you and then check whether it wasn't mentioned in any data leak scandals. That's it.

I think we can simply check the list, choose the one we like most and then check the news dedicated to the service. As if it faced real ip leaks, then it's better not to try. I always check the reviews and latest news while choosing any service.

You know what I'll tell you, I think that most of the VPNs have a free trial. But you'd better choose by different options. Like price, how much supported countries do you want, etc. I use Hide me and I'm fully satisfied with it. But it doesn't have a wide range of supported countries. If you don't need any exact ones and just want to hide your ip - it will be okay for you.