For example, use a password manager, use 2FA.
Saying it out loud would be a security risk
Different randomized username on everything I sign up for. I do it so you can’t google my username on one platform and find me on another. Each account also gets its own unique email address.
Is that a unique address at the same domain, or even the domains are unique?
Same domain. Every email is just the username it’s associated with @ the domain (Not gmail). The passwords are different between account and email (And no two accounts anywhere share passwords).
As of right now I have 19 already-created email accounts just waiting to eventually be associated with some account I’ll make for some service in the future. Any time I get low I’ll make a bunch more at once. I have almost 60 accounts across the internet using this system already. It does get a bit annoying when certain sites want to email me a login code every time I log in.
Use Linux, uBlock, other Free Software. Change the operating system on my phone to LineageOS or GrapheneOS, get my Apps from F-Droid. Don’t sign up everywhere with my real phone number and birthday.
(Regarding the original question: I’d say secure passwords and 2fa is more security than privacy?!)
LineageOS or GrapheneOS
Which one do you prefer and why? Has installing any of them caused banking or pay apps to stop working?
I don’t use any “pay” apps. I got a card from my bank, I just use that to pay. So i don’t know. But the banking app that generates tan codes, shows the balance and so on works fine.
I prefer GrapheneOS for my main phone. It just works and has sane default settings. On other devices I prefer LineageOS for microG. And i can root Lineage which is handy for development.
I use Bitwarden for pw manager and 2FA. I use that to create a random password for anything I sign up to.
I am fortunate enough to run my own mail server, so for every signup I don’t trust, I make a new email address and only use it for that one thing.
You can do facetube+normalemail@someplace.con if you cannot run your own. This at least lets you know who is leaking your info.
I generally try to run as much FOSS as possible, I do dual boot Win/Linux because unfortunately we still have companies not providing for both OS.
And if I go out in the public, I wear a cricket box.
At the end of the day, the winner for privacy is … Decentralization Cuz no central server means:
- Data only save in your own device
- Anonymous, never link to your personal info
- E2EE
