What small, easy things can the average person do to start protecting their privacy today?
“Just do what you can without overburdening yourself. So, use #ProtonMail, use #Signal or #Threema, use #DuckDuckGo — these are very good alternatives. And whenever you can, say no to cookies.
@sergeant Solid advice 👍
@ilyess @sergeant When Protonmail sends you a notice that you have a msg waiting, there's apparently no way of knowing if the msg that's waiting is actually just an announcement from Protonmail themselves. So you could be forced through hoops like Protonmail's #CAPTCHA only to find spam waiting. CAPTCHA has ruined #Protonmail as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't want to lead someone their CAPTCHA trap
@sergeant @ilyess #Signal is not a good recommendation either: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/779 And #DuckDuckGo is also quite lousy: http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/
@resist1984 @ilyess Do you have any recommendations on search engines?
@resist1984 @sergeant I didn’t know about metasearch.nl. Thanks for the tip :) How does result quality compare to Google search? I tried to get many ppl I know to start using DDG and most of them complain about poor quality results. Having gotten used to Google’s strikingly accurate predictions, I don’t really blame them. I guess my point is, for novice users it doesn’t really matter how private the alternative is if it’s not as good in terms of features.