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Not much and I don't plan to do much. It's easy to think "I have nothing to hide", but that's not what I mean. A better analogy is risk analysis/attack surface
by laserbeam 4y ago
Not much and I don't plan to do much.
It's easy to think "I have nothing to hide", but that's not what I mean. A better analogy is risk analysis/attack surface area you expect. The privacy requirements of someone doing investigative journalism are wildly different from a regular joe who only needs to worry about targeted ads.
I'm generally in that bucket, where my only real privacy concern is ads, and I'm ok with tailored ads... Especially since ad blockers remove over 95% of them anyway. And since I rarely buy stuff.
I take significant steps for security (yubikeys, password managers etc.), and mental health (regular social media breaks and such). But "privacy" is too vague a word without a risk assessment.
- mathgeek 4y agoSimilar approach here. Adblockers and permissive loading of JS by domain are the only steps I bother with. Anything else is coincidental or done for security/peace of mind.
- joe-collins 4y agoI don't feel like I do much either, but I loathe advertising, so I do run a (to me) modest suite of defenses. I run uBlock Origin, set to default block all third-party content, and DuckDuckGo's extension in Firefox. I have the Tor Browser installed for when I'm feeling particularly paranoid, and a blocking VPN on my Android phone. There are certainly leaks, but I never see any malicious content.
- ataru 4y agoOne thing to think is that new ways to use data will be created in the future. Some companies (e.g. Google) by default will capture multi-gigabyte decades-long records of information about us. We might let them do it thinking that it is not much threat to us. But new technologies can be invented, for example things like widespread use of facial recognition, or deepfakes, or AI, which could make the trove of data we gave away become more dangerous in the future.