For example, change your password regularly, use 2FA.

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I don’t understand how changing your password or using 2FA enhances your privacy? I use a different fake name on each website I register, also use a different mail alias for every website I sign up to.

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Why do you think using 2FA doesn’t improve privacy?

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Improves privacy protection, but not privacy. Similar, but important differences.

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Not OP but the reason 2FA does not help is because “hackers” who might be stopped by 2FA are not the people violating your privacy.

It’s the mega corps that you use 2FA to log into that violate your privacy.

This all being said everyone should turn on 2FA for security reasons. Just know that this does not help privacy.

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Eh, I would say hackers absolutely do violate your privacy, but simply aren’t the only ones. 2FA only protects against one threat vector, but not another.

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