“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a self…
It doesn’t need to be black & white either. For absolute privacy, sure, it is a PITA to get everything running, but you don’t need to go all in to reduce your footprint on the internet. Moving email out of gmail is a start. Signal on the side of whatsapp is a step forward. Bazzite instead of Windows on your old gaming rig is a pretty decent leap. And so on.
And self hosting is getting more and more feasible. Home Assistant is something you can just buy and plug in to start moving from Alexa to FOSS variant. Immich is fairly easy to get running to move from Google Photos / iCloud to your own devices (just remember backups).
And even if you want to just consume services, there’s other options than just Google/Microsoft/Apple around. Every small step counts and affects on what data “they” have on you to sell.
It doesn’t need to be black & white either. For absolute privacy, sure, it is a PITA to get everything running, but you don’t need to go all in to reduce your footprint on the internet. Moving email out of gmail is a start. Signal on the side of whatsapp is a step forward. Bazzite instead of Windows on your old gaming rig is a pretty decent leap. And so on.
And self hosting is getting more and more feasible. Home Assistant is something you can just buy and plug in to start moving from Alexa to FOSS variant. Immich is fairly easy to get running to move from Google Photos / iCloud to your own devices (just remember backups).
And even if you want to just consume services, there’s other options than just Google/Microsoft/Apple around. Every small step counts and affects on what data “they” have on you to sell.