Privacy @lemmy.world Anonymouse @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

What started your privacy journey?

What started you down the path to privacy? Was it a particular event, article, podcast or something else?

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I got into piracy because I was 11 and wanted to edit videos

I got out of piracy when I got software through work and streaming made things convenient and fair.

Now I'm thinking of getting back in because things are no longer convenient nor are they fair.

[Edit] oops, we're talking privacy.

Well I started my privacy journey this year when too many services I used changed their policies for the worse
- Privacy.
  
  Lmao my bad
  
  Lol bro
- Ironically (or not), mine began with piracy. When I was little, I had no money, but I had a computer and lots of time. I figured out how to get games and apps that I wanted and a part of that was covering your tracks.
  
  Fast forward to college and learning about Linux. It blew my mind that you could do something like apt-get install doom and then there it was. No piracy necessary. I dove head first into FOSS.
  
  Then along came Google with lots of free stuff. Great, I thought, but this was different. I think I knew that they were harvesting and selling your personal data, but it was free so I let it go. One day, I was on a site and there was an advertisement for something very personal that I had been referenced in an email. The thing is - this was at my work computer which I never used my personal credentials for.
  
  I started noticing things following me around the internet and got creeped out. I started reading about what's really happening and got very uncomfortable. That's when I started focusing more on keeping a clean profile.
  
  I can't switch to Linux until it supports software I need (the FOSS alternatives aren't there yet) but I do hope I get the opportunity soon. I ran Linux on my laptop in college and loved it

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