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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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What privacy do you practice in your everyday life? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by averageshade@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I use a password manager, vpn, and all of my devices have minimal tracking and are fully encrypted. Just wanted to hear what others do.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Password manager, DNS level malware, ads, etc blocking on all devices, run linux on all my computers, run degoogled lineageos, dont upload data to clouds, use protonmail, and im prob missing some off the top of my head

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To add to this

Use fake data where possible Disposable virtual cards when buying stuff Email aliases Fdroid for phone apps. Cash payments

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes. I use fdroid as my primary app store and use Monero as often as i can. I actually just bought my new phone yesterday with monero