One thing I don’t see any one mention in the comments, is that you should start paying attention to the “Data linked to you” section in the appstore. As an example here’s WhatsApp and Signal:
Granted that does mean you are relying on the developer and Apple to not be deceptive, but it’s better than nothing and a good place to start.
Depends, do you trust Apple with your privacy? And how about Amazon, do you trust them?
Well, all my home appliences rely on Alexa. I do trust amazon as i had no issues with it.
About apple, i did opt out from diagnostic data sharing, filled my icloud drive and disabled find my iphone. Tho to be honest, i had this iphone for 2 years now and havent found a reason to switch yet. (iPhone 12)
Joke: The first app to get rid of is iOS.
(I’ve been making iPhone apps for a decade, let me rant!)
not even a joke for me, i can’t imagine being without F-Droid!
Go on……
Please rant away, this is a safe space.
welp 💀
@prousername I wrote a blog article specifically for this! Perhaps you will find it helpful: https://controlaltdelete.technology/articles/easy-practical-privacy-tips-for-everyone.html
this defo has to be a joke (i dont use facebook but i find this funny tbh)
You might want to check out some of Michael Bazzell’s books.
I’d start small, a lot of people would tell you to do some drastic changes to you life, but, like every other thing you have in life, start small, or you’ll might fail.
I’d suggest starting here.
Other awesome FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) lists for your other OSes (computer/tablet).
I think you *should* think about moving to more friendly-FOSS OSes, but in time, down the line, not this instant. Maybe next devices you own, or when you feel ready, comfortable, with privacy; anyway, GL!
I daily drive Void Linux as i do consider Windows being spyware.
Well then get you a pixel with grapeheneOs, Chad
Not an app, but one thing I can recommend that is pretty much “for free” is to turn on iCloud Advanced Data Protection, that gets you end-to-end encryption for pretty much all iCloud storage (photos and so on).
Everything else I would recommend is probably not going to happen (such as deleting Discord) or of questionable benefits (such as using the web version of Discord instead of what is probably the app) :^)
Stage one: get off the internet.
Stage two: ???
Stage three: Profit
Swap ChatGPT for a shortcut to duckduckgo.com/chat ;) I know that DDG isn’t ideal compared to stuff like SearX but at least it doesn’t require being signed in for making prompts.
Thank you for sharing this! :)
I use searx more then the fluffy DuckDuck that can’t go anywhere.
Adding to what others here have already said, I’d definitely download Signal and see if you can get any people to move from WhatsApp/Telegram/whatever to Signal.
I don’t know much about iOS apps, but you could look into more privacy focused YouTube clients, and possibly 2FA clients too (although that’s a bit of a controversial topic on iOS AFAIK).
I saw you mention in another comment that you use Amazon Alexa for smart home appliances. Depending on interest in selfhosting / time / motivation to move away from Amazon, you could look into using Home Assistant instead. It even has a Lemmy community: !homeassistant@lemmy.world.
@prousername here’s a good starting place: https://www.privacytools.io
