• nitefox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Short to do list on how to actually achieve privacy;

    • use Linux;
    • use hardened Firefox;
    • use Steam;
    • use protonmail or something similar;

    Easy, right? Desktop-wise, achieving privacy is quite easy tbf

    Then you see the mobile hell-scape:

    • install grapheneOs (unless you are lucky, you won’t be able to use your banking application, and the process is not beginner friendly);
    • do not use apps that are a privacy nightmares;
    • do not use Google play or Google related services (you lose the YouTube commodity);

    The last two points lead you to basically not use social media (Lemmy and a few other alternatives excluded, but they are far away from the mainstream). Then there is another problem: to keep contact with other people, you have to use privacy-nightmares apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.

    So yeah, privacy isn’t dead yet but it’s heading that way (unfortunately); which obviously doesn’t mean people shouldn’t do anything about it, it’s just sad