Examples may include using tor as your daily browser, using VPNs when you can’t use tor etc.

I’m curious to have some philisophical discussion over if there are actually any visible benefits to being private while online…

  • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t practice privacy because I think anyone’s out to get me. I don’t think the gvmt know or care that I exist, much less about the opinions that I hold. I’m not trying to hide, I’m just trying to be private. I don’t want there to be a shadow profile of me but if there is I want it to be as inaccurate and meager as possible. I don’t want to have tailored outrage designed to sway me politically shoved at me or to be a sellable data point to increase, however marginally, some billionaire’s personal wealth.

    So for me, the answer to your question is that privacy itself is the tangible benefit.

    • doot@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think that this is a point that often gets understated. Most of us aren’t important to be specifically targeted for being watched, but there is a significant amount of passive data collection / watching that goes on by governments and big tech. It definitely makes life a little better to not have outrage and echo chambers being the only internet you see.