These are some practices which worked for me, You can adjust them to match your preferences. Feel free to add your own in the comments

  1. If you are forced to use something that is privacy invasive, Make it isolated from your actual profile. (Ex- Using a 2nd Browser profile, Using an alias to signup)
  1. Always use the services that you use from their official clients. Don’t blindly trust 3rd party clients just because they claim that they are “more private”, Do some research before using it.
  1. Don’t mix up your work life with your personal life. Consider getting a second phone just for work purposes or you could use a second profile for work purposes if your phone has the ability to create multiple user profiles.
  1. Keep a habit of clearing the browser data once in a while. (You can make your browser automatically clear the browser data when closing but it can be kinda annoying when you have to log back into websites everytime)
  1. Strip away the metadata of your photos and documents when sharing them.
  1. Check connected apps/services regularly and revoke unused ones. (on Discord, GitHub, Matrix and etc.)
  1. Audit app permissions regularly (Some apps adds in new permissions or re-enables permissions over updates)

The old #3 tip got removed (The password one) because it served no additional protection and was pretty annoying. It was a mistake by me, sorry

  • RiQuY@lemmy.zip
    11·
    2 days ago

    Good advices but an easier solution to point 3 is using an e2e encrypted password manager or a offline only one.

    • that_one_guy@lemmy.ml
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Using a password manager also helps alleviate the inconveniences highlighted in point 4. Logging back into a website isn’t so bad when you can just auto-fill your way in.