Poll: How do you protect your privacy?

Using personal cloud solution like Tonido for files and photo sharing

What you might not be considering are the details between the lines.

You might not post private information to Facebook but when and how often you post can tell someone more than you would casually share with a stranger like what your sleeping habits are or if you are at a special event (determined by the lack of generated events during a normally scheduled period of activity for you). After a while, even the non-interactions with the site can tell the site and their advertisers more about you than you might prefer.

Think of twitter bots like the automated RobMeNow tweets. Sure letting people know that you are buying a subway sandwich is mundane and hardly private information but entering that information into an archive that can be analyzed to determine how much you spend on fast food and when you are most likely to purchase fast food is probably not something you want to share with advertisers.

EDIT: People are commenting about how it's not so bad that advertisers know this information about you. I just want to add that you can replace "advertisers" with any noun that is legally or commercially entitled to the data. It could be a government or the company that acquires your social network.

A little off topic.

Social networks.. have changed. It's nowadays used more for branding yourself than anything. There used to be a time, 2-3 years back when I used to see all sorts of personal information. In particular, well thought out opinions and sensitive topics being discussed. But people have understood privacy more and more and they only post 'generic' stuff. I look into my facebook page today, most of them are about cats, dogs, babies, birthday parties, random quotes, jokes. Anything hardly personal or opinionated. It's the reason I quit social networks. Not because of privacy but because there are no real opinions or thoughts in there anymore. (Like this really close friend of mine who wants to brand himself as hyper-energetic hyper-optimistic chap. I know better).

I use them as well, but I find that I have a hard time trusting them. They haven't done anything to lose my trust, but nor have they done anything to gain it; they could just as easily be logging my every move, and I'd never know. But I can't really see a way around it, so I'll continue to do so and use end-to-end encryption when possible.

This is the exact same problem I have with DuckDuckGo.

I still use them, but they could be logging everything, for all I know.

It would be great if they were regularly and frequently audited by a third-party who has earned widespread trust and respect, like the EFF. Not that the EFF is in the audit business. But serious auditing of sites that claim to respect privacy is sorely needed.