What privacy do you practice in your everyday life?
Personally, I use a password manager, vpn, and all of my devices have minimal tracking and are fully encrypted. Just wanted to hear what others do.
No proprietary software. Open source only. (Partial exception for certain games, in a virtual machine, after I review their privacy policies.)
No retail rewards memberships.
No Google anything.
No Meta anything. (Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram/etc.)
No phone number given to web sites or (most) businesses. VoIP number for the handful that might legitimately need to call me.
Unique email addresses for each web account and service provider. When one gets leaked or spammed, I know who did it and I cut them off.
VPN when I feel it's appropriate.
Serious approach, respect!
Live in a fairly secluded area. Have privacy film on most of my windows, anywhere that a person could possible see in. Back window overlooks a hill though so airing out after a shower in front of it is still pretty private.
Where sunglasses to hide the windows to my soul when I'm out and about.
Thinking about growing a giant dense bamboo fence around the perimeter of my property.
I thought of a similar thread but I think the results would be pretty much the same. It's great to have some mutual inspiration here.
Anyway, there's tons of stuff I can list here. I'm gonna list some stuff but will probably forget 70% of the other stuff because it's become so common in my daily life.
Gonna add some more to the list whenever something comes up in my mind. Like I said it's become so basic in my life that I don't always think about it anymore when I use it.
Btw things like 2FA only help with security, not privacy.
Not using my real name on any social media profiles except LinkedIn (so potential employers don't think I'm weird), posting at random times of the day, commenting on something not related to the country where I live, using email alias (and multiple ones), never posting a picture of my real face.
Password manager, DNS level malware, ads, etc blocking on all devices, run linux on all my computers, run degoogled lineageos, dont upload data to clouds, use protonmail, and im prob missing some off the top of my head
My main line of defense is using services I fully own (they're however hosted on a VPS. I'm fine with that) :
And that's it for the most part :)
I pay for Kagi.com for search, I use NextDNS over my personal Tailscale network that blocks all the commercial social networking sites and their CDNs, as well as a ton of ad networks. I use uBlock Origin in firefox to further remove content that may be served 1st party. Opted out of as many analytics services as I can and frozen my credit with all four US credit agencies. I alternate between using a VPS as a Tailscale exit node, or ProtonVPN for country-specific location egress.
My email client supports masked emails so every account I sign up for has its own email address. That's all synced to my password manager which generates passwords for said account. Vpn always on. I think that's it?
What's the client
Fastmail
In addition to what others have said, I don't store cookies between browser sessions. This of course removes all your logins but eliminates cookie fingerprinting.
Live in a fairly secluded area. Have privacy film on most of my windows, anywhere that a person could possible see in. Back window overlooks a hill though so airing out after a shower in front of it is still pretty private.
Where sunglasses to hide the windows to my soul when I'm out and about.
Thinking about growing a giant dense bamboo fence around the perimeter of my property.
Live in a fairly secluded area. Have privacy film on most of my windows, anywhere that a person could possible see in. Back window overlooks a hill though so airing out after a shower in front of it is still pretty private.
Wear sunglasses to hide the windows to my soul when I'm out and about.
Thinking about growing a giant dense bamboo fence around the perimeter of my property.