In order to protect your privacy even more efficiently, you need to do something very simple whenever using an online service or a software. Something that most people fail to do is reading the terms of service, also known as a TOS, from companies or developers’ software. This usually will tell you straight up whether they’re spying on you, selling your data, or using it to sell ads. This will solve a lot of problems with people not realizing that some software is actually the opposite of privacy, but they keep using it thinking it enhances their privacy.
Can you give an example of stuff people use because they think it will enhance their privacy but don’t?
Because software and services people use because they think it enhances their privacy usually are:Proton (mail, VPN, docs, storage)
Mullvad (browser, VPN, DNS, search engine)
Tuta, DuckDuckMail, SimpleLogin, addy.io, Mailvelope, Thunderbird
StartPage, DuckDuckGo, Duck.ai, SearXNG
LibreWolf, Tor, IronFox, Vanadium
uBlockOrigin, AdGuard DNS, ControlD, Technitium, Pi-Hole, simplewall, Portmaster
Debian, Fedora, Arch, GrapheneOS
Qubes, Whoonix, Tails
Fediverse instances that explicitly say no tracking/analytics, telemetry/data selling, ads, AI trainingReading the ToS of any of these revealed they in fact don’t enhance privacy?
that’s because the TOS is literally miles long
Well don’t use it if you don’t know what the companies doing. Because we have to take responsibility as users
Too bad you need a law degree to fully understand them
And the time. If you read every single TOS you’d never have time for anything else.
How many service you use? I always read full tos section on privacy, data, ad. Take 20-40 minute for most store. Only once time take.
If TOS too long to read in 20-40 i do not use service.
https://tosdr.org/en exists so you can get an idea on how some orgs are blatantly lying in public statements about privacy.
Too bad every car has terms and conditions that are privacy invasive: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
Hope you live in an area where you don’t need a car to drive to work or to get groceries.
Read the terms of service. Doesn’t matter the product. Also we use mopeds in my country lol you all are funny
