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My privacy journey started with a YouTube video by SomeOrdinaryGamers about the Club Penguin Online doxing situation in 2020. Then, through Techlore and other YouTubers, I learned about private browsers, VPNs, password managers, Linux, FOSS, and more. What made you start?

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[โ€“] kCNrnHcEkvqdtLCQoQbK@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When someone messaged me with a number of personal details about me. I realized that I'd posted too much personally about me and used the same username everywhere.

[โ€“] ellioswa@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, doxing scared me. I run a large gaming community on Discord and back then, I got paranoid about my personal info getting out. I made a whole persona based off a movie character with his own Instagram profile, address, and separate timezone I had to play by. It was a fun project, but it worked.