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What can I read to convince me I should care about online privacy more?
6 points by steponlego on March 13, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
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.




This DuckDuckGo site offers plenty of privacy ideas. https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/ This site gives details of 7 anti-tracking software utilities. https://windowsreport.com/software-stop-online-tracking/


Moxie 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...


No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.



Thanks for the replies.




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