'Caring about privacy almost ruined my life.'

Overwhelmed by all the steps you have to take to be private online? Feel like there's no use in fighting the man? You might have privacy fatigue. Let's talk about how to have privacy online without completely losing your sanity.

0:00 Intro
2:45 What's your threat model?
8:10 Compromises
11:32 Conclusion

[AndreasMolnar-Dev]

The problem is that most people don't care anyways

[lv]

Big data be like:
“I like you, and i want you. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The choice is yours”

[Loronline]

We need more people to care. Don't let predatory groups get away with constant privacy violations.

[brettlaw]

A journey begins with a single step, and that step is an inflatable t-rex costume which you will use to purchase electronics in cash while leaving all other forms of electronics, active and passive, at home. You will not park in the parking lot associated with your purchase. Get your friends to do the same. There is safety in numbers.

[IgorFerreiraMoraes]

"I use Kali Linux and Tor to log into my Google Account and watch YouTube"

[lussor]

My philosophy is: if there is a decent alternative I use it, if not fk it. Like YouTube, Whatsapp or Discord, nobody is going to install a program just for you

[scotty]

The biggest problem for me is the constant microphone surveillance that phones have.

[VistyMe]

I feel like it’s getting to a point there needs to be new laws for in place to give citizens more privacy with companies constantly restricting users abilities to use their products through new terms of service. It’s either LET US SPY ON YOU or you don’t get to use the product YOU PAID FOR.

[dimitrilium]

Privacy < Data poisoning
You can't stop data collection, but you can drown the data collector under a pile of garbage data.

[notyetdeleted]

My main thing is to have the ability to be totally unmonitored, not to always be off the grid. Its simple enough really, leave the phone at home, drive an old car without GPS or bluetooth features.
Atop that, just use cash when you can in purchases. Banks don’t need to know your every transaction,

[xxXXuserXXxx]

impressive, very nice
now let's see mental outlaw's video on privacy fatigue

[RainbowGod]

And you know whats more annoying?
*_Big Data has, rationally, no reason to have all that constant data harvesting. Like some things are fine and understandable but why the fuck does my TV and desktop ask for geolocalization? They aint goin anywhere bruh_*

[rustymustard]

I keep a lock on my toilet seat so nobody steals mah shit.

[Nick-bnch]

As someone with a felony charge, my threat model is increasingly looking like "don't use the internet and live in the woods"

[vikingaxe]

This video came right on time, it's so easy to get paranoid about online privacy. I already switched search engine and started dabbling with Linux, but it goes deeper and deeper.

[numberformat]

My uncle was pretty tech savvy. He'd talk to us about privacy online all the time. At family get-togethers, he'd go on about encryption and stuff, which worried us a bit, but we didn't think much of it. One day, he freaked out at a train station and got detained. He came home that day shaken up. That's when things started to unravel. He kept getting more paranoid. Eventually, he opened up to his family and they got him help. I'd imagine it was a tough journey, but he started to find his way back. Even then, he still struggled with his fears and obsessions. It's a reminder that behind all the tech, there's a person dealing with their own battles.

[knightmaremedia]

I'm not privacy fatigued, I'm surveillance fatigued.

Point is all this, all of it, stops the moment we all collectively say "thats enough" and mean it.

Until then, unless you have that cabin in the woods, and even then it's impossible to eliminate all of it.

It's the way it is.

[zadock]

you do bring up something important that most don't think about. many people are either "it don't matter" or "I need to hide from everyone and everything", then they try to push that on others. my dad is an insane privacy nut to such a degree that he made it difficult to even get signed up for school, extra curriculars, college, or do literally anything. he turns jumping a hurdle into climbing a mountain, then forces it all onto me as well. he has no friends, he has no life, he is a complete schizophrenic paranoia who thinks the world is going to end any day and everyone one is after him.

you bring up a good point that no one talks about which is that while it is good to care and take steps for your online privacy, but if you go off the deep end, you will essentially ruin your life, get yourself paranoid and delusional, and even try to ruin other people's lives by forcing the same type of behavior on other people.

because of him, I have tried to NOT be like him, but still take REASONABLE steps to help protect my privacy without making it too hard to do regular stuff. basically taking care of my privacy to a reasonable degree without getting myself paranoid or just making hurdles larger than they should.

I thank you for bringing this up. not enough people talk about this.

[bnorrish]

The secret to privacy is to simply use the internet. Don't live your life on the internet.

[Ashinle]

I think it's just that people confuse privacy with anonymity. It's about only making public the things you are ok with and making anything that doesn't need to be public private. Also you explained this very well a concept people don't get so easily.