A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy
Rules:
Cash.
VoIP instead of cell service. VoIP is kyc but I can use it without celltower tracking. I keep my phone in airplane mode.
GrapheneOS and lots of Foss apps.
Every account gets a unique login - name, password, email alias. I also give as much fake information as I can. 2fa when it available.
I have no accounts with any of the big tech.
I'm planning on buying a used Windows laptop and installing Linux. Pop_OS to start as I have an eBook on that os.
Edit: corrected autocorrect.
I cover my webcams, I have almost entirely de-Googled (since they've been attacking Invidious, I've had to resort to watching the videos on YT if they aren't on PeerTube or Floatplane or whatever), I use Linux and BSD, I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS at some point, and I try to avoid software and services from countries with problematic governments (e.g. China, Russia, USA). I am also using local software, with data sychronised via SyncThing (currently just my notes and passwords, but the list is growing).
I also use Mullvad Browser when available, and either Brave or Epiphany when it isn't.
I am still on the lookout for a decent search engine, though, as all of the ones I've used are either not as private as I thought (e.g. Ecosia, Qwant), or are broken (e.g. LibreY), or did something I disagreed with (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search), or are hostile towards VPN/Tor users (e.g. Startpage), or didn't have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek), or became unavailable to me (e.g. Peekier, MetaGer).
or didn’t have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek)
Got anymore on that? Always looking to improve
You guys just need time, I think. I'll probably be a proud Mojeek user in the future, but for now I need something a bit different. That said, I have found Mojeek to be excellent for finding smaller blogs and articles that I wouldn't otherwise have read, so it's still pretty useful even if I don't use it as my main engine.
thanks a lot, if you have any search terms which didn't work so well then that's useful for this process
Just fyi https://inv.nadeko.net/ somehow still works. Also there is stuff like freetube/libretube. As for search engines, I assume you have mullvad vpn, you could use mullvad Leta (don’t know how good they are right now, haven’t used them in a while). Also there is Swisscows
I try to blend in and avoid posting my main privacy activities in public.
Despite what they say, while obfuscation may not be secure, it sure helps with privacy.
Then why comment dawg
Who says that was me?