A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
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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I went through a degoogling phase a few years ago. I got really into it. But there is just so much constant device tinkering and tweaking that it can be a mental drain and time sink. Then you have to wonder how much good you’re doing in the first place. I just have to assume they’re getting my data somehow. I switched back, thinking it’s best not to stick out, and rather just try to blend in with the majority instead of looking like a suspicious person up to something when I all I really care about is privacy. I just don’t know what to do about this anymore.
Really? I switched everything for almost 3 years now, and to be honest for me was a “fire and forget” situation. I run /e/OS on my phone and I had basically no issues ever. I moved to Proton mail with a few clicks and their migration tool, I always used firefox, and then I switched to kagi.com as a search engine approx. 1 year ago. That’s pretty much it, but I have to say, I was not a very heavy user of all the bells and whistles Google makes.
Thank you for mentioning /e/os, this is the first I’ve heard of it and it looks like a nice open source os without making using it a chore! 😁
I might give it a go over the weekend once I’ve backed up everything. 😊