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I don’t understand how changing your password or using 2FA enhances your privacy? I use a different fake name on each website I register, also use a different mail alias for every website I sign up to.
Why do you think using 2FA doesn't improve privacy?
Improves privacy protection, but not privacy. Similar, but important differences.
Not OP but the reason 2FA does not help is because “hackers” who might be stopped by 2FA are not the people violating your privacy.
It’s the mega corps that you use 2FA to log into that violate your privacy.
This all being said everyone should turn on 2FA for security reasons. Just know that this does not help privacy.
Eh, I would say hackers absolutely do violate your privacy, but simply aren't the only ones. 2FA only protects against one threat vector, but not another.
True “hackers” do. But the average person’s privacy is violated so frequently and at such depth but companies that the amount of “violation” done by “hackers” rounds to zero.
This being said 2FA is something everyone should use.
Eh, the violation that hackers incur will tend to have a much higher impact (though lower probability) than others like Google though. Someone who has had their identity stolen will likely have more issues with hackers than with Google. You are correct about the breadth of privacy being violated "legally" but it's only gotten that bad because of how little it affects folks day to day lives to the point they don't really care (not defending it, just stating the observation). So, yeah, you're more likely to be violated by Google, but if you're violated by a malicious actors, it will hurt a lot more.
Both are bad and both need to be protected against. Both will violate your privacy and neither should be ignored.