/tags/privacy/ Recent content in Privacy on Cumps · Geek. Hugo en-us Copyright &copy; 2026 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100 /articles/2026-02-22-why-self-host/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100 /articles/2026-02-22-why-self-host/ <p>A few months ago my nine-year-old asked me why YouTube always seems to know what she wants to watch. I gave her a half-answer about algorithms and changed the subject. That evening, after the kids were in bed, I sat staring at my Google Workspace admin console and felt uneasy for the first time in years. Not because Google had done something wrong exactly, but because I finally sat with the question: why is every email my family sends, every calendar invite, every contact stored on servers I have zero control over, in a jurisdiction that doesn&rsquo;t answer to us?</p>