For me it would be the following:

  1. Don’t reuse usernames/names
  2. Avoid using social media
  3. Use Tor/VPN when you can
  • Otter
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    172 years ago

    Yea a lot of this advice “don’t use anything from Google/Microsoft/Facebook/amazon” or “avoid social media” is just going to tell newcomers that privacy isn’t for them

    Instead go in order

    • secure private messaging since that’s where a lot of your personal private info is going (use Signal)
    • switch to Firefox over chrome, it’ll do all the same things
    • use bitwarden (or keepass, but that one is a bit more technical) to manage your passwords, and generate random passwords for things you can reset easily

    All of these are easy, don’t have much of a learning curve, and will give them significant gains privacy wise. Also I’m betting they will continue to learn and do more stuff after that.

    • Chaotic Entropy
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      62 years ago

      “Use Signal” is great, but every other person you know insisting on using WhatsApp makes it moot.