Improving your online privacy: An update

I clicked this expecting some deep-dive ramble about moving all communications to Matrix, but this is actually a very concise and accessible guide. Now, I will admit I'm biased since I already follow all of these steps, but it seems really simple to me. In fact, the addition of the "Expected effort" bits makes me wonder if I could convince some friends to follow suit and at least switch to Firefox and DDG. OSM has proven a hard sell so far, sadly.

I'm always looking for guides on how to improve physical world privacy if anyone knows of any.

Does redact come with account deletion as well?

The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in this ecosystem.

If you want to participate in the modern economy, than you need to assume there is never any isolation. Even creeps with phones will show up taking photos on private property, as some app paid them $5 to risk their lives trespassing.

Mozilla Firefox collects beacon telemetry with a UUID by default (as does most browsers). While there is a lot of community goodwill around the popular browser, most are not technically advanced enough to mitigate the dozens of defaults that do not respect user privacy.

Additionally, most modern OS are just a crude sales funnel for OEM products and services. Technically, tying and racketeering with a computer is still illegal, but cultural norms have shifted expectations on corporate conduct.

This is the modern web, and arguably it was a mistake =)

> This is the modern web, and arguably it was a mistake

Agreed. Although I say it differently: the web is dead. It has been thoroughly transformed into a hostile place optimized for commerce and surveillance. As such, it is no longer really capable of doing the things that used to make it great.