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This is an incredible resource and collection of information from what I can see initially. I'm going to give it a deeper read this weekend.

Thanks

this is wonderful! I'm collecting resources to teach just this topic at my local library in April, and I will be reading this carefully.

Would it be okay if I gave my classes a link to this awesome resource?

Very thorough guide. Will be sharing. Thankyou.

I think it's important to that you've split them up into manageable chunks. Not every single step is as easy as others for some people but it's great that breaking it down makes it seem like something anybody is capable of... rather than a massive and overwhelming undertaking.

that's a wrong issue to target imo. Data protection is mostly red herring and this is a long lost battle.

Real fight should be over who controls the information flow and fediverse fixes this much better than it fixes data privacy!

Thank you for this. My hacktober 2024 POC’d how aggressive unrestricted third party interference across cloud-sourced interdependencies can become.

End user’s compute and utilities exploited to hold their cloud data hostage while that same data is provided p2p as a content service - madness!

Literally watched tech giants revving their engines across my 8gbps hook up b4 my ability to countermeasure was trickled to 12 mbps.

Offense > Defense

Silence is defeat.

an excellently written well readable guide, thank you very much.
It is a great way to share with “less technical” people, because we must not leave them behind, but help them. And this is a good way to warm them up to the idea of reclaiming one’s own data.

Yes, it does not cover everything we internet nerds would like to talk about, but for most people, tech is just a tool to use, a means to an end, not something to spent a lot of time on (because it is often annoying).

Re VPNs: the article about VPNs repeats misleading privacy claims. Especially after explaining their actual purpose for secure networking. It also links an EFF article (ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vp…) that explicitly highlights that:

"A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you, including GPS, web cookies , tracking pixels, or fingerprinting."

Far greater benefits can be achieved by HTTPS-only, script or ad blockers and encrypted DNS.

Anyhow, thanks for your hard work. I think this is a great learning resource and eye-opening for many people!

@Khrys ROFL you can skip around 😀

People here love their Alexa’s. It’s a cultural sign of being into tech and having an advanced home to have one. I have to gradually stage in the information and tips to the point where readers start to recognize more and more of their devices as working against them instead of for them. Which will make them more likely to leave or choose an alternative. ;)

Remember it’s not just a list of topics, it’s an educational programme aimed at everyday people who haven’t thought about tech like this before. And three weeks is still a short, short time.

@nazokiyoubinbou yes I can add that, but later on.

Remember I am staging people in, here. This isn’t a comprehensive list but an educational programme. I am aiming at people like my mom or my colleagues who don’t think about this stuff much and don’t know where to start. It starts out easy, then gets more intense as they build on what they learned.

@cygnusx11 @nazokiyoubinbou Excellent! That also means you are not the audience for this course 😀

The goal is to get people up to the level where they can consider your stack for their everyday computing. Please spread the news!

Thank you for doing this. 🙏

I usee Signal but unfortunaly I have to also use whatsapp as I live in Spain and that replaces the normal calls and sms. I used to use facebook up until 2016 for 8 years and felt it was going to go bad. I don’t use instagram nor x.

I would like to develop my coaching business without having to use those proprietary platforms..