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Should Mozilla be trusted? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data.

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[–] Fern@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to be a doomer, but it feels like the skill floor to protecting my privacy is unbearably high and getting higher. Does anyone have a good resource about it?

[–] orvorn@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just do one thing at a time. Here's my general process:

  1. switch email, and forward everything from the old one to the new one (I use my own domain name, but paid hosting)
  2. get into self-hosting, and slowly replace services I use w/ self-hosted ones
  3. get friends and family to switch to privacy-friendly services to communicate w/ me

And so on. Just do one thing at a time, and continue until you're happy with it.

[–] fishie@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

convincing people to switch the hardest part

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, but it's possible if you get them one by one. They can keep their old stuff, just use the new one with you.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Rifles.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have to ask: what are you going to do? Shoot Facebook? Snipe iCloud?

Start blasting Google?

Pretty sure a rifle is in no way a useful tool for any sort of online privacy.

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

If there was ever a time for a “touch grass” comment this would be it.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not very private to put your name on a government list of gun owners.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not needed in my state.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not everyone here lives in your state

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was suggesting the OP may live in a similar state, using mine as an example.

The assumption was: buying a gun = registration in a government database. That's not a valid assumption, so I provided a counter example.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a valid assumption in my state.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not everyone here lives in your state