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What can I read to convince me I should care about online privacy more?
I’ve spent a little time reading about privacy and trialling alternatives to popular services to try to protect my privacy online, but it’s a struggle, because typically these services are run by governments as we often find out. I don’t care if it costs more money to have privacy (like paying for things like Protonmail) even if the services tend to be less full featured (like Protonmail, which is not even close to the same experience as Gmail).
So now rather than continuing to spiral with the many honeypots we’re finding out about, about online privacy, I thought I’d see if I can self host. That would make my life simpler and less expensive.
Any articles, videos, whatever anyone would refer me to?
I just have way too much other stuff to be anxious about, so I’d rather not feed my information into these thinly veiled government operations and honeypots.
- jjgreen 4y agoSome ideas here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107049
- Overtonwindow 4y agoNo Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
- steponlego 4y agoThanks for the replies.
- helph67 4y agoThis DuckDuckGo site offers plenty of privacy ideas. https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/ https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/ This site gives details of 7 anti-tracking software utilities. https://windowsreport.com/software-stop-online-tracking/ https://windowsreport.com/software-stop-online-tracking/
- t0k0l0sh 4y agoMoxie Marlinspike (legendary cryptographer, security researcher and creator of the Signal protocol which powers Signal and WhatsApp) wrote an apt article on privacy 10 years ago, and I highly recommend it. https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide.html https://moxie.org/2013/06/12/we-should-all-have-something-to...