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Good Privacy Practices (Intermediate) (self.privacy)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by Normo to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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These are some practices which worked for me, You can adjust them to match your preferences. Feel free to add your own in the comments

If you are forced to use something that is privacy invasive, Make it isolated from your actual profile. (Ex- Using a 2nd Browser profile, Using an alias to signup)

Always use the services that you use from their official clients. Don't blindly trust 3rd party clients just because they claim that they are "more private", Do some research before using it.

Don't mix up your work life with your personal life. Consider getting a second phone just for work purposes or you could use a second profile for work purposes if your phone has the ability to create multiple user profiles.

Keep a habit of clearing the browser data once in a while. (You can make your browser automatically clear the browser data when closing but it can be kinda annoying when you have to log back into websites everytime)

Strip away the metadata of your photos and documents when sharing them.

Check connected apps/services regularly and revoke unused ones. (on Discord, GitHub, Matrix and etc.)

Audit app permissions regularly (Some apps adds in new permissions or re-enables permissions over updates)

The old #3 tip got removed (The password one) because it served no additional protection and was pretty annoying. It was a mistake by me, sorry

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Silo ALL online accounts. All online accounts should have a separate name, avatar, email alias, etc, and be opened in assigned Firefox containers. Burner email aliases will be your friend here. Do not link these accounts, or if you must, link one or two but have them dead end there. The last thing you want is someone hopscotching all the way to your front door.

In reference to #5, daily use of BleachBit at the end of each computer session. Tick the 'Free Disk Space' box under the System options. Takes about an hour and a half for my system, so I run BleachBit in the evening. It won't free up disk space, nor will it make your computer run faster, but it's certainly good for security aspects. PrivaZer is also a good piece of software but it's windows based.

#3 is a pretty good tip although Bitwarden's track record of breaches that resulted in password leaks, is fairly substantial.

#6 makes me giggle because I do that for rare pictures I post online. Sometimes, I'll inject something like 'The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back, turn back, turn back' in one of the exif slots, just to see if someone is paying attention. BTW, the phrase is from an ELO instrumental that was laced with a backwards message. IIRC, the same song was used by NBC for an intro to one of their sports broadcasts back in the 70s.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bitwarden’s track record of breaches that resulted in password leaks, is fairly substantial.

Is that, never?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I mean, there have been breaches. In 2023 there were a small handful, and again in 2024/2025. There have been some incidents where passwords were lifted from Have I Been Pwned and some other reused passwords that were already out on the tubes, but none to my knowledge that resulted in user's db being hacked.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

opened in assigned Firefox containers

Is there any kind of automate way to do that? Because if you have always to think what account goes in what container :/ This is a lot of brain overheat !

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Yes there is actually. FireFox Containers is what you are looking for. Now, it does take a little effort to set up, but once set up, it works like a charm. First, I create containers, lets say Lemmy is a container. Then I open Lemmy in the Lemmy container, right click the FireFox Container logo in your url bar, choose 'Always Open Site In Container' (the Lemmy container). The next time you click on your Lemmy bookmark, it will ask you 'Do you always want to open this site in the Lemmy container'. Select yes, and Jack's a doughnut, Bob's your uncle. It will always open Lemmy in the Lemmy container. You can add some other containers say 'General Slop' that you use to open random sites in.