For example, use a password manager, use 2FA.
Different randomized username on everything I sign up for. I do it so you can’t google my username on one platform and find me on another. Each account also gets its own unique email address.
Is that a unique address at the same domain, or even the domains are unique?
Same domain. Every email is just the username it’s associated with @ the domain (Not gmail). The passwords are different between account and email (And no two accounts anywhere share passwords).
As of right now I have 19 already-created email accounts just waiting to eventually be associated with some account I’ll make for some service in the future. Any time I get low I’ll make a bunch more at once. I have almost 60 accounts across the internet using this system already. It does get a bit annoying when certain sites want to email me a login code every time I log in.
Those are security guards, not privacy guards…
I don’t reveal my privacy secrets on Lemmy.
I recognise that security through obscurity isn’t something you can rely on, so don’t consider my own practices to be secrets and am willing to share them to help others.
I use strong unique passwords stored in a KeePass database, and MFA whenever it’s available. I also have a VPN specifically so that I can use public Wifi when I have to (or wish to do something more private on the internet, such as downloading Linux ISOs).
I also have a vanity domain that redirects all mail to a central mailbox, so whenever I sign up for something I can easily use a unique address. This allows me to block specific addresses that produce spam and see where the spammers got that address.
I get that now, I thought you were just being snarky the first time I read it!
Taking the time to refuse all the cookies, every time I visit a website.
Going through all of Google, Facebook and other services settings to disable every tracking possible, especially towards ads.
I can tell that ads are less and less relevant.
Taking the time to refuse all the cookies, every time I visit a website.
Might I suggest this then?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
That’s actually a big one for me too. I have an extension running called “minimal consent” but it’s deprecated and never managed the more complicated dialogues. I also disable personalised ads on every platform (often defaults to enabled)
It’s sometimes annoying but all in all, I get the most random ads and i’m happy about it.
As a rule of thumb, if the cookie dialogue does that spinny “saving prefernces” loading screen for more than 10 seconds, the page probably wasn’t worth my click anyway and I close it.
Use Linux, uBlock, other Free Software. Change the operating system on my phone to LineageOS or GrapheneOS, get my Apps from F-Droid. Don’t sign up everywhere with my real phone number and birthday.
(Regarding the original question: I’d say secure passwords and 2fa is more security than privacy?!)
LineageOS or GrapheneOS
Which one do you prefer and why? Has installing any of them caused banking or pay apps to stop working?
I don’t use any “pay” apps. I got a card from my bank, I just use that to pay. So i don’t know. But the banking app that generates tan codes, shows the balance and so on works fine.
I prefer GrapheneOS for my main phone. It just works and has sane default settings. On other devices I prefer LineageOS for microG. And i can root Lineage which is handy for development.
