I mostly minimize using products from the big tech companies - I found I don't need their stuff nearly as much as I thought. There's a lot of incidental trackin

I mostly minimize using products from the big tech companies - I found I don't need their stuff nearly as much as I thought. There's a lot of incidental tracking going on there that's hard if not impossible to tackle. I use ad/tracking blockers, but having worked in this space, they don't/can't exactly offer complete privacy. Beyond that, I think about the biggest risks and try to tackle them: It's for example pretty easy to send someone a link and as soon as they click on it you know roughly where they live. Any information about where you typically hang out, what you do and what your kids look like stays off social media - it's pretty easy to be stalked with just a hand full of these signals, if someone really wants to. I don't feel I have much to hide, like others here, but you never know when someone decides to have a personal vendetta against you or something. Can't make it impossible to be stalked, but I can make it difficult enough for people to not bother. I think about it the same way as I think about securing my residence, really. Some concrete stuff I use: - Personal NAS and server for files/photos (Syncthing works great for me) - Ad/tracking blocker (it's usually a matter of the lists, so just one extension) - Firefox (I have some background with Mozilla so I personally trust them more than anyone) - Caution / VPN for weird links - No Gmail (I like FastMail, but there's a lot) - No Amazon, e commerce is enough of a commodity - Not using social media actively, not posting personal stuff - Linux (PopOS and Ubuntu)