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Personally, I use a password manager, vpn, and all of my devices have minimal tracking and are fully encrypted. Just wanted to hear what others do.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Password manager, DNS level malware, ads, etc blocking on all devices, run linux on all my computers, run degoogled lineageos, dont upload data to clouds, use protonmail, and im prob missing some off the top of my head

[–] JoeKrogan 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to this

Use fake data where possible.

Disposable virtual cards when buying stuff

Email aliases

Fdroid for phone apps.

Cash payments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes. I use fdroid as my primary app store and use Monero as often as i can. I actually just bought my new phone yesterday with monero

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you go about this? I want to do the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a friend who will take monero and use it and i give them an extra 5% for doing it. If i had to do it without them i would buy an amazon giftcard from one of the giftcard sites like coinsbee or coincards and buy it through amazon. Since i dont have an amazon account i send the monero to my friend and she uses amazon to get it. All i have to do is send her a link. She tells me how much it cost after governmyth extorgion fees are added and i send her that amount of monero +5%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, I figured as much. Thanks for the insight. There's an untapped market for anonymously purchasing these things that I plan on making into a thing. I'm probably going to do the same thing for my buddy since he wants a private phone for his day to day.