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is Privacy the only reason you degoogle? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, privacy on the Internet was something I wanted for a long time, but was too lazy to do. The decisive moment for me was the story with Reddit, at the same time YouTube goes against adblockers, Twitter goes down and Google develops technology to determine with which browser I visit websites.

Lemmy quickly intrigued me, and privacy is a big deal here. I don't want my digital life to be controlled by mega-corporations, so I'm gradually getting out. I'm slowly working my way through https://www.privacyguides.org/ and https://www.privacytools.io/ and hope to be done by the end of the year.

So far I have managed to

Set up Pihole
Set up Bitwarden
Set up New email address
I am using SearXNG
Librefox for PC and Icedraven for Android are downloaded and will be used soon.

Next phone will be a Pixel, so I can use GrapheneOS.

So to answer your question, yes mostly privacy.