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If you were to create a 'Privacy User Manual' for the internet, what would be your top three essential tips for individuals to protect their online privacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For me it would be the following:

Don't reuse usernames/names
Avoid using social media
Use Tor/VPN when you can

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[–] auf@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the ultimate tip for securing your private information.

Keep away from the Internet

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea a lot of this advice "don't use anything from Google/Microsoft/Facebook/amazon" or "avoid social media" is just going to tell newcomers that privacy isn't for them

Instead go in order

secure private messaging since that's where a lot of your personal private info is going (use Signal)
switch to Firefox over chrome, it'll do all the same things
use bitwarden (or keepass, but that one is a bit more technical) to manage your passwords, and generate random passwords for things you can reset easily

All of these are easy, don't have much of a learning curve, and will give them significant gains privacy wise. Also I'm betting they will continue to learn and do more stuff after that.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

"Use Signal" is great, but every other person you know insisting on using WhatsApp makes it moot.