What started you down the path to privacy? Was it a particular event, article, podcast or something else?
Reading 1984
I used to relied a lot on Google. Google drive , google photos , google everything. After reading this article . I decided to self host most of online life and use privacy and security tools as much as I can.
Do you have an alternative link without a paywall? I’m interested to know what it was for you.
My Runescape account was hacked when i was younger. They got in via a dataleak leaking my email credentials. At that point i was already into computers more than the average person, so it kinda was a kick in the butt that pushed me to pursue better security practices, which opened up the rabbit whole into data privacy for me. Rip my mith armor from 2006 lol.
One day I was on a website at 2am that blasted an advertisement for TIDE DETURGENT at full volume. Then I found out about AdBlockers, then how creepy advertisement were.
Then Snowden happened.
Wanted to see if I could get my phone to show me ads for Tamale pots, a food I don’t make nor know how, and also not something that’s not commonly bought outside of holiday times. So I talked about it for days/weeks, not a single typed word, then one day I was seeing them on Facebook. Deleted my facebook, Instagram, installed app cloner to scramble my phone model/gps/location/google analytics ID, got mullvad vpn, and adblockers + uguard. App cloner also let’s you isolate apps and force them into a sandbox where they can have fun with my fake data.