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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I might be late to the party, but I think I can point out some crucial things here.

It is not just USA, but Five Eyes services in general which should be avoided. Try to bring in 14 Eyes if you can. (Five Eyes for example straight up discriminates against things like Tor use for masses.)
AirVPN and NordVPN might not be good choices for privacy, just geoblock bypassing. The only handful VPN choices good would be Mullvad, Riseup and 1-2 others I forgot.
Privacy Badger is a useless redundant addon. Recommend an auto cookie deleting addon over it.
Qwant is an excellent search engine. Someone (wink) exposed StartPage last year https://teddit.net/r/StartpageSearch/comments/djshn3/hello_reddit_startpage_mod_team/f49krhw/ , use it very sparingly as they hate Tor users too.
Firefox should be hardened with a custom user.js (refer to https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html) or zero.js (found on 4chan /g/)
Privacytools.io is an immensely horrible website to recommend actual privacy tools or advice, as they were stopped short by some folks like me, from deploying this recommendation page for Pixels and iPhones: https://deploy-preview-1713--privacytools-io.netlify.app/hardware/ (Github ticket: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1713)

They recommend a billion other bad things, like most VPNs that either track you by lying about policies, or have been hacked in the past. Privacy may be a gradient, but it is not a partial or full thing.

I was apparently silenced on r/privacytoolsio when I enquired about this page deployment: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/frz365/privacytools_delists_the_great_cloudwall/fm08anu/?context=10000

Digdeeper, a friend of mine lists more things. https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/fake_initiatives.html#ptio

I do not know why I typed all this. Nonetheless maybe it can help.