Digital Freedom Website Audit & “deGoogle” service

Identify, Measure, and Remove Your Exposure to the Big Tech Surveillance Umbrella

Is your website a silent informant? Most modern websites are built using a “convenience-first” approach that relies heavily on Big Tech infrastructure. Every time a visitor lands on your site, they are often being tracked, profiled, and data-mined by the very entities you may be trying to avoid.

From Google Analytics and reCAPTCHA to hosted fonts and “free” CDNs, these tools act as holes in your digital perimeter, pulling your users under the Big Tech surveillance umbrella. Our Privacy Audit and De-Googling service is designed to map these vulnerabilities and provide a clear path to total digital autonomy.

The Privacy Audit: Mapping the Surveillance Footprint

We conduct an extensive, technical review of your existing website and infrastructure through the lens of the DFA threat model. We don’t just look for bugs; we look for dependencies.

Big Tech Dependency Mapping: We identify every touchpoint with Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Cloudflare—including hidden scripts, fonts, and third-party APIs.
Tracking & Fingerprinting Analysis: We detect trackers, beacons, and fingerprinting scripts that compromise your visitors' privacy.
Infrastructure Review: We evaluate your hosting provider, jurisdiction, DNS configuration, and data residency to ensure they align with digital freedom principles.
Application & Plugin Audit: We review your CMS and plugin stack for high-risk data collection behaviors or abandoned code that creates security liabilities.

Optional: Probes and Attempted Hacks

For those who require a deeper level of assurance, we offer active testing options. This includes controlled, non-destructive probes and attempted hacks within a strictly defined scope. We test your authentication, access controls, and common web vulnerabilities to see how your “building” holds up against a targeted attempt to breach your perimeter.

The De-Googling Implementation Plan

The primary deliverable of this service is a comprehensive report and a prioritized roadmap to extract your site from the surveillance umbrella. Like our website builds, this is a report-first process; we provide the intelligence and the plan, and you decide how to execute it.

Privacy-First Alternatives: We provide direct replacements for Big Tech tools—swapping Google Analytics for self-hosted FOSS analytics and replacing invasive trackers with privacy-respecting alternatives.
Hardened Roadmap: A step-by-step guide to securing your CMS, cleaning up your metadata, and closing the leaks in your infrastructure.
Implementation Options: Once you have the report, you can DIY using the plan as your guide, hand it to your own developers, or engage DFA to handle the implementation for you as a separate project.

Getting Started: The Audit Process

Like all our professional services, this engagement begins with our Standard Consulting Process ($1,000 Package). This ensures we understand your current stack, your specific concerns, and the level of testing required before we begin the audit.

The VAPA Virtual Webmaster Assistant (Optional $500 Add-on)
The VAPA Virtual Webmaster (VVW) is particularly powerful for the De-Googling process. We train a dedicated VVW instance on your specific audit findings and your customized roadmap. This downloadable AI assistant stays in your control, guiding you through each step of the implementation and ensuring that as you update your site in the future, you don’t accidentally fall back under the surveillance umbrella. Clients who successfully implement all recommendations may also be eligible for a DFA “De-Googled” verification.

DFA is an association of professional IT specialists dedicated to digital freedom. We maintain a network of technical experts available to implement client projects, offering a wide range of services including web development, coding, system hardening, and security testing.

To ensure seamless delivery, DFA sources the necessary technical resources from within our members and appoints a dedicated project manager. This DFA Representative serves as your primary point of contact, coordinating all resources and overseeing the project from start to finish.

DFA is an association of professional IT specialists dedicated to digital freedom. We maintain a network of technical experts available to implement client projects, offering a wide range of services including web development, coding, system hardening, and security testing. To ensure seamless delivery, DFA sources the necessary technical resources from within our members and appoints a dedicated project manager. This DFA Representative serves as your primary point of contact, coordinating all resources and overseeing the project from start to finish.