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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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When did you guys start your privacy journey? How did you find out about the data stealing stuff? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Dating back to the first Android phone, the G1. I was installing custom ROMs on that first, and then when I eventually got a Nexus 5, I started to de-Google.

I’m on an iPhone now because I had a string of bad luck with how shit most Android phones are, but I’m still privacy and security-minded:

I have no social media accounts - no one can actually find me except through my personal website or LinkedIn (but they obviously have to know my name first for either). If/when people complain about it, I shrug at them. I’m not signing up for TikTok so you can send me some vapid video
I use a VPN 24/7
Proton as my mail provider
My wife and I don’t use any streaming services - Stremio for everything (through Real Debrid so no torrents can be tracked)
I use a virtual card service so that absolutely nothing has our actual credit and debit card numbers (some with limits set so a service can’t arbitrarily raise rates on us, or go rogue and accidentally charge too much)
Windows is not allowed to touch a single computer I own. It’s either macOS for work stuff, or Linux for everything else