Does anyone know of any kind of starter guide on de-Googling and de-Big-Teching one's life that is a good starting point for non-techies?
Preferably on an open license (CC By or CC By-SA) so that it could be translated?
@rysiek https://www.optoutproject.net/
some recommendations are... debatable (e.g. Opera browser or Tunnelbear), but generally reads like a decent guide
@noodlejetski @rysiek Just browsed through this guide yesterday and it seemed thorough and well-written.
My minor nitpicks since I think it's a great guide overall:
- I didn't like every recommendation either
- Someone with more Android/iOS experience could provide better ideas regarding phones
- Could be quite long winded at times when you want to jump to the actual steps they recommend
@noodlejetski @rysiek I couldn't find opera in the Browser section, but I allways have this uncanny feeling when someone recommends duckduckgo as privacy searchengine.
@heimchen @rysiek https://www.optoutproject.net/better-browsing/
"Opera and Vivaldi are built on the Chromium open source codebase but which take a different approach than Google to tracking and privacy. Both are innovative and offer unique user experiences. They're fun to try and offer extensions and other nifty benefits."
@heimchen @noodlejetski @rysiek because they have ads?
@econads @heimchen @noodlejetski @rysiek Maybe because they're Bing underneath, so there's centralisation of search technologies. There are some smaller search engines that aren't meta-search-engines, but being smaller, their results can be lacking on some topics.
@dheadshot @heimchen @noodlejetski @rysiek
They might take their results primarily from bing but you can customise the sources as well, and they do a bit of their own indexing IIRC? so it doesn't have to be. And that doesn't answer the question about privacy, since they're a proxy they aren't passing on information that a search engine would normally collect directly.
@j_bertolotti @rysiek I'm working on an english translation of my book!
@rysiek no guide, but everyone needs a list of the alternatives too!
https://www.opensourcealternative.to/
https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
@rysiek @kuketzblog has excellent blogs about gaining more privacy and security. It is, however, primarily in German. Since it is well-structured, I can imagine a translator has an easy time performing its job.
@rysiek We just published one in Finnish on https://federicoleva.eu/fi/posts/2025/irti-valvontakapitalismista/ , written by @tmheikkola. :D
@rysiek Maybe this https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/113880324277014189 by @cyberlyra ?
@rysiek You can take a look at @privacyguides they have a lot of articles about different privacy aspects depending on your thread model. I would say that is relatively easy to understand even if you are not a techie :)
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
@rysiek@mstdn.social this is the most comprehensive I've come across. https://wiki.futo.org/index.php/Introduction_to_a_Self_Managed_Life:_a_13_hour_%26_28_minute_presentation_by_FUTO_software
@rysiek maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I saw on my feed just a few hours ago, http://switching.software which is a list of alternatives to the big names
@rysiek Get Firefox and use Duckduckgo, for example.
Install LineageOS (de-googled android) on your phone (there are good tutorials out there, no root necessary)
Instruct your router to use other DNS services, then 8.8.8.8 (Google)
Idk. There is a lot.
@celeste_42bit I've been doing security and privacy trainings for the better part of 20 years, and I work in infosec. But thank you for your advice.
@rysiek Oh, I see