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.
It’s pretty simple if you don’t own the router you don’t own the Wi-Fi. You can treat your home Wi-Fi a little bit like a public Wi-Fi and just make sure all of your devices are secure using encrypted DNS and encrypted traffic and overall not open on any unsecured ports and you should be fine.
Personally, all of my services on my home server are only available through my WireGuard VPN, so it doesn’t matter what Wi-Fi I’m using, it’s always going to be encrypted peer-to-peer.
Which is so easy it really should be the default nowadays yet sadly isn’t.