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I got key-logged by an abusive parent when I was 14. If that doesn’t make you take digital privacy and security seriously, nothing else will.
Sorry that happened to you :(
Thanks for the kind thoughts. <3
Piracy
Initally Facebook, but then also Google and Microsoft.
I’ve been online since the early 90s, when it was just understood that there were risks, so you had to protect yourself. So it’s not so much that I got into internet privacy as that I’ve never done things any other way.
The only thing that’s really changed is that I’ve had to shift more from passively protecting myself to actively protecting myself, since corporate and government shitstains are constantly scheming to destroy our privacy in order to expand and protect their own wealth, power and privilege.
It’s insane how abruptly things went from “Don’t share any information, online, especially anything personal” to “You must be a suspicious person or a criminal if you’re not on the net with your real name, face and everything about your life” in the advent of Facebook et al.
PRISM, the American empire mass espionage program
Snowden
Common sense.
If I’m being honest the switch from Reddit to Lemmy and this instance…
Tech -> Raspberry Pi -> Linux -> New PC -> Mining Crypto -> Monero -> Privacy
Crypto lol
Advertisements and how media tends to treats people like they’re stupid
My IT teacher from high school put a major emphasis on online privacy.
He thinks the internet is a major threat to individual freedom and while it brings benefits, the negative effects are too big for him.
While I don’t agree with the last statement, I do think privacy is very much under attack nowadays and while I am not very concerned what other people and corporations know about me, I still care about privacy simply because I have the right to do so and because if I don’t pay attention, a dozen different trackers will know what I have done without me granting permission.
Corporations basically take advantage of people and give nothing in return and that is bad imo.
I’ve known for the lack of privacy online for a while but joining lemmy really made me change the way I browse the Internet. I switched to Firefox with unlock origin, started to use a password manager with randomly generated passwords and got more conscious about my internet habits overall.
the fucking ads. they spooked me as hell.
