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In increasing level of commitment/difficulty: - Use brave as your browser - Use a VPN w/ tracker blocking DNS - Move to protonmail or fastmail - Start using
by vearwhershuh 7y ago
In increasing level of commitment/difficulty:
- Use brave as your browser
- Use a VPN w/ tracker blocking DNS
- Move to protonmail or fastmail
- Start using Signal for your instant messsaging
- Start using Tor (but that might get you on the list)
- Stop buying everything through Amazon
- Install and use piHole (and marvel at how much traffic your wifi router sends to home base)
- Suck it up and move to linux
You are still going to be tracked, but these are the things I can think of that might help.
- SamPatt 7y ago>stop buying everything through Amazon Indeed. I'll plug OpenBazaar here, a p2p marketplace built on IPFS, as well as Haven, the mobile app version focusing on privacy.
- PatentlyDC123 7y agoI'm still reticent to go with Brave because of their Basic Attention Token system. Do you think Firefox could be a viable alternative with uBlock and other privacy protecting plugins?
- vearwhershuh 7y agoYes, I think that's a reasonable alternative. Certainly much better than nothing.
- beatgammit 7y agoEh, I think moving to Linux is easier than many of those things, especially "start using Signal" since it has issues with the network effect. In fact, I'd put Signal at the end of the list. Sure, you can use it as an SMS frontend, but that doesn't really give you any privacy benefits.
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