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[DISCUSSION] - What are your steps/habits to protect privacy? (feddit.ch)
submitted 9 months ago by Encryption@feddit.ch to c/fightforprivacy@feddit.ch
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Hi all, a shy try to awake this community again :)

Whats your daily-routine for privacy, what are you using, what are you not doing?

Short summary of me:

  • Phone -> LineageOS
  • VPN -> Per perimeter (LAN, Mobile) -> different VPN providers
  • Home network (More for security but also helps detecting privacy invasive applications) -> Firewall, IDS and ISP router is bridged
  • Payment -> Cash where possible (Saved me some trouble when card machines were offline and most had to go somewhere else to have a meal)
  • Browser -> Three to four different ones, per usage I use a different (Media, communication, bank etc)
  • Browser extensions -> UblockOrigin, Decentraleyes, User-AGent-Switcher and NoScript
  • Browser cache/history -> deleted once a month (I do not use credentials saved inside browsers)
  • Online Calls -> Matrix
  • OS -> Linux only household
  • Mail -> Different providers and own domain with catch-all, so if a company sells my mail I will see it because it is COMPANYNAME@MYDOMAIN.COM

Thats on top of my head, what are your takes?

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much what OP wrote but recently moved to grapheneos, and a pi-hole to block tracking/ads. Also personal (self hosted) instances of searxng, piped, libreddit, which connect via the vpn tunnel. Vpn is paid in cash. Matrix and email are self hosted (but not on my lan). Selfhosted tailscale/headscale. Different browsers and profiles (primary Firefox but also vivaldi). Self hosted nextcloud.

[–] Encryption@feddit.ch 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the insights, I'm also in the process of moving to more self-hosted services. Just finished transferring my media library to a Jellyfin instance for local movie/series watching. I also plan on self-hosting Matrix and Seraxng, will be my next project for the holidays.

I'm long thinking about installing the PI-Hole, I should just do it, not much work to do for a great addition to the network.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

“phone” is more complicated for me.

  • smartphone → deGoogled Android (because I won’t feed the popular hardware vendors like Samsung which alternative OSs support), no GSM chip, in airplane mode; occasionally wifi
  • phone (for talking) → 20-year old candybar phone
  • VOIP → disaster because the cheap providers do not support basic crypto
  • payment → cash, even when not possible. That is, if a creditor demands electronic payment, I still offer only cash. When they take me to court, I explain cash acceptance is an obligation. And I win. They can fuck right off with their Bill Gates-ian forced-banking agenda. I also keep my eye out for cashless restaurants that collect after dining -- they’re accepting my cash or I’m eating for free.
  • email → no, snail mail. Google and MS broke email.
[–] activistPnk 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Online Calls -> Matrix

I’ve stayed away from matrix because the flagship node is Cloudflared. It demonstrates competency issues by those behind the tech. There is a disconnect between what they claim to stand for and their ops. Matrix is supposedly decentralised but whenever I am invited to a matrix room it is on the Cloudflared flagship instance. If people using it don’t even grasp the optics issues then they are essentially in a different league.