I selfhost what I gain and try to degoogle as well.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    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).

      • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        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.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            First time I’ve heard of your project. it looks great!

            Do you have any place you’d like to collect result issues? I’d be willing to run it for a while and give feedback on anything out of whack.

            The biggest problem I see in about 10 minutes of playing with it:

            Official documentation gets trampled by older fan docs.

            q=“Setting up Tailscale on Linux”

            In a perfect world would give you “https://tailscale.com/kb/1031/install-linux”

            Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it’s a universal instruction page for most linux.

            q=“Tailscale” does bring me right to the official site.

            q=“site:tailscale.com tailscale setup” does net a couple of results from their kb, but not 1031.

            another example

            q=“Pinokio Setup”

            expecting to headline pinokio.computer as the official site, but there’s nothing on the first page.

            changing it to q=“pinokio” drops you right on the pinokio.computer

            q=“site:pinokio.computer pinokio setup” results in no results

            It’s super responsive, please keep up the good work!

  • Tazerface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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.