I’d consider myself moderately to advanced when it comes to technology, and recently I became really bothered with aspects of how our privacy and security is basically assumed and taken for granted. Over the past few weeks I’ve begun to migrate to a much more secure and private setup such as migr…

To be honest, what I’d rely on here is that even if you trust Google, you can’t trust that they’d never be hacked. Maybe show/send them an article on the salt typhoon telecom hacks to see how bad it could get and explain that Google’s such a juicy target. The Snowden NSA leaks are also a good exampl…

I agree I’m definitely not going to force it it really try to push certain levels of privacy beyond basic and see if that gets anywhere

Hi @Homero ! Welcome to this forum. :blush: When it comes to convincing family and friends, I think it’s difficult to give you a very meaningful answer. How do you convince people of anything? (Meant as a prompt for reflection, not dismissively!) That said, I think Privacy Guides have a number of a…

The first and most important step towards privacy for anyone is to stop using social media. Things like “hardened Firefox” are relatively unimportant, and irrelevant if the first thing that you do is log into Facebook. Then revisit your “tech stack.” PCs and laptops running Windows and phones runni…

I totally hear you. My counter is really that for my threat profile, i’m going to use some social media. But how i use it is at least containerized. I know that by default its inherently threatening my privacy to some extent. But like I mentioned my goal isn’t to hide fully or be fully anonymous. I…

[image] Homero: Some people can’t be convinced or pushed even slightly, I will concede that. But I assume this has been something many people have heard, is there something you say back that’s helped move even the most stubborn user to slightly care about low hanging fruit, or is this a purely d…

Best tip I have: focus on benefits. This isn’t about getting them to act on your ideology, but your suggestions will help solve problems. Some framing: Password Managers - “you’ll never forget a password again” DNS changes - “you’ll get faster internet and fewer annoying ads” Email aliases - “you…

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I will be taking notes of this topic and merge into this one

I’m working on Win11 guide, but will compare to this thread after.

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