Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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When did you take privacy seriously? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I still feel like I'm not taking privacy seriously enough. I haven't gotten a VPN yet because that requires pay and I am too lazy to try to get money. (I wish there were free (in pricing) VPNs.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I feel inspired to make a privacy-focused emacs environment.

If you want to take your privacy seriously, you need to take some actions and not only focus on the VPN part. For an example, Facebook, Twitter, Google Chat, Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, Discord, and more are really, really bad for your privacy.

Instead, use XMPP or Matrix for chat options. If you want an encrypted service yet get better privacy than WhatsApp, use Telegram. Signal uses servers from big tech companies, but yet Signal are still better than WhatsApp.

Mastodon instead of Twitter and Facebook. Revolt or Mumble instead of Discord. Invidious, Piped, youtube-local, or NewPipe instead of YouTube. ProxiTok instead of TikTok. And so on.

Those are good advices.

I am more worried about masking sensitive info though. The struggle with lying is a trait found in Autism that could screw me over.

I also struggle with routines because of ADHD; so I may commonly fail to change my behavior. This could be problematic.