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Welcome to The Privacy Dad's Blog!
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Welcome to The Privacy Dad's Blog! is a personal blog at theprivacydad.com about security and productivity. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN comment links this blog's post about Uruky, an EU-based Kagi alternative, calling its author a privacy-focused independent blogger. The comment does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A digital privacy blog for non-tech users and parents
Most-linked posts?
- Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-22
- Discovering Monero2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-22
- Comparison Notesnook and Standard Notes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-01
- I Have Nothing but Red Herring to Hide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-15
What Hacker News says?
[NO-AI] My wife and I continue to work on Uruky [1], a simpler Kagi alternative, based in the EU. Last month we launched image search (got out of beta this month), added our own index and crawler (via Uruky Site Search [2]), and reached 100 monthly active accounts (we’ve passed 150 now)! You can also see a privacy-focused independent blogger wrote about us [3]!! You can check out the main differences between Uruky a…
Comment linking /interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)”Submitted Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark as a story · 201 points
HN discussionhttps://theprivacydad.com/what-is-your-isp/ I wrote about that here. I read my ISP's entire privacy policy and asked them for a report of all the info they have about me. It is a concern, but not the topic of this article.
Comment linking /what-is-your-isp/
on “So What If Google Sends Me Targetted Ads?”Submitted Using Android Without a Google Account as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parents: Are Your Kids Backing Up Their Data? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Obtainium? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted So What If Google Sends Me Targetted Ads? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Family Nextcloud Server as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paying for Mullvad VPN Anonymously with Monero as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Monero as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jesper Graugaard's Fight Against Chromebooks in Danish Schools as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Minimalism: Using One Device for Everything as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Whoogle Instance on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Sticking with Standard Notes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparison Notesnook and Standard Notes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Android Without a Google Account in 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Version of "I Have Nothing to Hide" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy Tools vs. Online Child Exploitation and Abuse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four recommendations for privacy-focused blogging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Joy of Working with Text Interfaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Use Uruky, a Private Search Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy Tool Recommendations Should Come with Caveats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Privacy Search Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Droidian, a Phone OS for Patient People as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Monero as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Look at the EU Age Verification App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have Nothing but Red Herring to Hide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have Nothing but Red Herring to Hide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostmarketOS (Phosh) on the PinePhone in 2024 as a story · 1 points
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