Your default home Wi-Fi setup isn't nearly as private as it should be - 6 free ways to improve it

This article outlines practical steps to enhance personal privacy from the desktop to the home network, recommending privacy-focused browsers with strict tracking protection and extensions (uBlock Origin, NoScript), encrypted messaging and email (Signal, Telegram, Session, GPG/Proton Mail), password managers (Bitwarden), private DNS (device-level or router-level with Cloudflare/Google), network-wide ad/tracker blocking (Pi-hole, AdGuard), privacy-centric search (DuckDuckGo) or self-hosted YaCy, and dedicated LAN firewalls (OPNsense, IPFire, pfSense, VyOS). It notes that most options are free, may require some setup, and can necessitate site-specific exceptions to maintain functionality.