All of us have made privacy mistakes at some point in our privacy journeys. In an effort to help those earlier on in that journey, please share some of the mistakes you’ve made, and how you could have prevented it.
stood in my balcony with my pp out and someone saw me
Before really learning about the implications, I had used the same alias on dozens of sites. I had hoped for serendipitous interactions.
Its taken forever to track down and clean up all of those old accounts.
Using a VPN for torrents and forgetting to set it up to kill the network connection when VPN is lost. Got a couple “love letters” from my ISP that way.
Advice my parents to use outlook. They were using an ISP email service which we had to get rid of. I wasn’t sure if tutanota was ready for them yet and they already were a bit familiar with outlook. It was a bit of a trade off back then.
Used Facebook for years.
I knew Instagram was privacy invasive long before I ever started using it. Still decided to use it for some reason. Anyways, glad to have my dopamine receptors back.
I use Discord, though only in a web browser and only for semi-public chats. I might be using Discord less if I had gotten some friend groups onto something like Matrix.
True story:
When I was a kid I wrote a review for Dexter’s Laboratory on the internet. I wrote “I think the show fuckin sucks!”. I don’t know why. Again, I was like 10. AOL ratted me out to my parents somehow and I got banned from the dial-up for a week.
I still have digiaids from Limewire back in the day. I also regularly type “magic” between a certain you and a tube and I have no idea who operates that site.
