So recently I’ve gotten a bit more serious about my internet security, and made some changes. Here’s a short list of what I’ve done, but I’m wondering if I’m missing anything important:

  • Moved from Brave to Firefox
  • Bought my own domain for my email (so I can switch email providers at any time)
  • Switched to Duck Duck Go from google (It’s gotten worse anyways)
  • Bought the Proton package (VPN, Encrypted email, etc…)
  • Installed Thunderbird (instead of microsoft mail app)
  • Installed uBlock Origin
  • Installed Bitwarden for password managing (My passwords are also no longer all the same)

Is there anything that I have missed that should be a priority for internet security?

  • 𝓣𝓞𝓑𝓘𝓝OP
    1•11 months ago

    moved from brave to firefox Why? Brave is open source

    Brave Search has been selling data they don’t own, for AI to train with, which makes me distrust the Browser

    bought my own domain for my email so I can switch providers. Great to have more control over your assets, but I don’t think this is exactly more secure.

    It does keep my business accounts secure, but I guess that’s different than internet security

    Switched to duck duck go They sold out forever ago. Your search history is probably safe with Google and not all that lucrative to fraudsters anyway

    Do you have any sources/info? I was not aware of them being sold out.

    If you really want to hide your activity, just use tor!

    True, for general use though, Tor is just so slow.

    Keeping all your passwords in the cloud? No bueno!

    Bitwarden is fairly secure, and open source as a plus. but I do keep a notebook backup too.

    I definitely recommend one of those data eraser services that contacts all the data brokers and gives them legal notices to erase your data from their systems. It’s a shame they’re necessary, but oh well.

    Yes, I should check them out.