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by AdmiralAsshat 1870 days ago
What level of logging/privacy can we expect from a self-hosted instance? I had faith in Mozilla's commitment to privacy, but I don't necessarily trust some random dude's AWS instance.
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> What level of logging/privacy can we expect from a self-hosted instance?

It really depends on who is hosting it.

Send itself doesn't really log anything except for errors. A reverse proxy in front of it might be used for an access log, which is default with the docker-compose template for it. Files are always encrypted on the client, and it or its keys are never seen on the server.

If you're wondering for the instance I've linked: it runs on Digital Ocean. I have an access log (IP per request, for 24h), I can list encrypted blobs and their metadata (creation time, size), and that's pretty much it.