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
  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I disagree with your #3 point. There is nothing stopping you from disclosing personally identifiable information through Tor or a VPN. They can help you with keeping private, but they don’t do anything if you don’t know how to use them for privacy.

    The Tor browser resists fingerprinting, but a VPN doesn’t. A VPN only keeps your IP address private, and your IP address isn’t really that interesting to the big tracker companies.

    I would say something more like Firefox’s container tabs is way more useful for privacy.