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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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 optoutproject.net/

some recommendations are... debatable (e.g. Opera browser or Tunnelbear), but generally reads like a decent guide

www.optoutproject.netThe Opt Out Project

@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 optoutproject.net/better-brows

"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."

www.optoutproject.netDay Two: Better Browsing - The Opt Out ProjectAccording to statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser currently enjoys over 68% marketshare, with Apple's Safari not even a close second at…

@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.

@rysiek @kenobit wrote several things on the topic, but I think they are in Italian only.

@j_bertolotti @rysiek I'm working on an english translation of my book!

@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 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 :)
privacyguides.org/en/

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@rysiek maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I saw on my feed just a few hours ago, switching.software which is a list of alternatives to the big names

switching.softwareswitching.softwareEthical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software

@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 😅 Still kinda new here. I'm not used to interacting with so many tech people 😇