Improving data privacy can get very overwhelming at first.
When we start learning about how much data is collected on us, it’s quite common to feel stressed and distressed.
This is normal, don’t panic!
While you might be driven by an urgent desire to delete yourself from the entire internet (like right now!), this is the wrong approach.
The right approach is to see privacy like broccoli.
Yes, broccoli, you have not misread me 
Thank you, thats a good read. I chuckled reading the broccoli part 
What i always said is that privacy is nonbinary, a spectrum. Its not black and white. The middleground gray area inbetween convenience and privacy/security can be a safe haven depends on own needs and own threat model. I mean if everyone treated privacy as binary black and white then this forum wouldn’t even exist, we all would be living as tinfoil wearing hermits in an Antarctica cave away from the society and from the open internet. Not saying that being literal offgrid can’t be done but for most people its unfeasible.
Thank you! I’m very happy to hear you liked the article, and that it made you laugh! 
Indeed! This is well said! There is a nuanced sliding scale to adjust what we need, what we can do, and how to deal with what we cannot change individually.
I mean the “tinfoil wearing hermits in an Antarctica cave away from the society and from the open internet” lifestyle doesn’t sound that bad to me, but I concede it might bring some inconvenience 
Exactly, since when choosing privacy and/or security we’re almost always trading off some convenience, theres that thin line between our privacy and our modern convenience. Theres no generic privacy bible, theres no “best” privacy practice because threat model exist. I think I’m still constantly adjusting my thin line even after all these years started caring about my privacy.
Yes absolutely! 
Well… I hate broccoli, but I suppose it’s time to start eating it 
It will make you stronger!
still no a fan of broccoli but I’ll take any analogy for explaining privacy, must’ve been inspired by my first blog post quite a bit huh?
Oh! Can you share a link to your blog post please, I would love to read it 
oh, I thought you’d remember before:
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Oh I’m sorry, I think I didn’t found the time to read it at the time. Sadly, my to-read list gets too long for my schedule sometimes.
This new article was from an idea I submitted back in February, so not inspired by your blog post unfortunately, but I think that just means that great minds think alike!
You’re raising very important points in your article! It’s important to keep bringing attention to these topics. Thanks for writing about this! 
I’ve never heard this analogy before, but it just works so well! It’s an important concept when it comes to privacy but also a lot of other areas of our lives too.
One other kind of health related analogy that stuck with me was: “Privacy isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon”
Thanks for writing this Em 
It’s actually a bit uncanny that I got this in my community summary email today and read the article, because I honestly was starting to feel despair (especially since I was forced to start using Windows 11 recently)
I was saying to myself: what is even the point.
I like the way you explained it, because actually I’m someone who successfully changed their health habits over a period of a couple of years. So thinking of this in the same way just makes it that much easier and myself feel calmer.
Thanks
Loved this article! Added here!
This is a fantastic discussion you started there! Thank you!! 