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What privacy do you practice in your everyday life? (lemm.ee)

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

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Personally, I use a password manager, vpn, and all of my devices have minimal tracking and are fully encrypted. Just wanted to hear what others do.

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[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

My main line of defense is using services I fully own (they're however hosted on a VPS. I'm fine with that) :

I use my own password manager (safe)
I use my own DNS with DoT wherever possible
Emails are selfhosted as well, and I use spamgourmet for deliveries that require a signup email
Duckduckgo as my search engine and mobile browser
Adblock plus on Firefox for desktop browsing, with an occasionnal SOCKS5 proxy on my servers
I used to run SailfoshOS on my phone, but it's unusable right now. I'm waiting for lineage or /e/OS to support my hardware
I'm very picky with my cookie selection, and store them in RAM to flush them on reboot
Occasionally use Tor (though it's a bit overkill for my usage)

And that's it for the most part :)