Personally, I use a password manager, vpn, and all of my devices have minimal tracking and are fully encrypted. Just wanted to hear what others do.
Live in a fairly secluded area. Have privacy film on most of my windows, anywhere that a person could possible see in. Back window overlooks a hill though so airing out after a shower in front of it is still pretty private.
Where sunglasses to hide the windows to my soul when I’m out and about.
Thinking about growing a giant dense bamboo fence around the perimeter of my property.
No proprietary software. Open source only. (Partial exception for certain games, in a virtual machine, after I review their privacy policies.)
No retail rewards memberships.
No Google anything.
No Meta anything. (Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram/etc.)
No phone number given to web sites or (most) businesses. VoIP number for the handful that might legitimately need to call me.
Unique email addresses for each web account and service provider. When one gets leaked or spammed, I know who did it and I cut them off.
VPN when I feel it’s appropriate.
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I pay for Kagi.com for search, I use NextDNS over my personal Tailscale network that blocks all the commercial social networking sites and their CDNs, as well as a ton of ad networks. I use uBlock Origin in firefox to further remove content that may be served 1st party. Opted out of as many analytics services as I can and frozen my credit with all four US credit agencies. I alternate between using a VPS as a Tailscale exit node, or ProtonVPN for country-specific location egress.
Not using my real name on any social media profiles except LinkedIn (so potential employers don’t think I’m weird), posting at random times of the day, commenting on something not related to the country where I live, using email alias (and multiple ones), never posting a picture of my real face.
- Password manager (Bitwarden)
- Two-factor authentication enabled wherever I can (with my YubiKeys if supported, TOTP from Authy otherwise)
- Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled, Cookie Auto Delete, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin
- PiHole with my own DNS resolver as well as DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS proxy to use it on all my devices
- both uBlock and PiHole have privacy-minded blocklists enabled
- Linux on all computers
- Windows only for gaming
