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<blockquote data-quote="cliffspab" data-source="post: 872151" data-attributes="member: 82860"><p>I totally agree with this.</p><p></p><p>Maintaining absolute privacy is almost impossible if you're tied to the Google or Microsoft ecosystems and many of the measures I've tried to achieve even a modicum of this have resulted in various things breaking on my system.</p><p></p><p>Some recent examples being O&O Shutup disabling secure lookups on Edge and switching various Windows settings to "managed by your organisation"; WPD breaking the useful new clipboard sharing feature of Your Phone; not having a decent search tool on Tutanotoa/Proton Mail due to the encryption; and an always-on VPN hobbling my internet speed.</p><p></p><p>With that in mind, these days I'm not prepared to give up functionality in the pursuit of protecting my 'pizza orders' as you so succinctly put it.</p><p></p><p>So now, like you, I take a minimalist approach to privacy using various tracking blacklists and settings in Edge, AdGuard and NextDNS and manually disabling a few of the more needless Windows telemetry features.</p><p></p><p>Taking a strong approach to security, on the other hand, tends not to break things and mitigates against threats that might actually screw up my system, lose my data, jeopardise my accounts or cause me tangible grief in my day-to-day computer use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cliffspab, post: 872151, member: 82860"] I totally agree with this. Maintaining absolute privacy is almost impossible if you're tied to the Google or Microsoft ecosystems and many of the measures I've tried to achieve even a modicum of this have resulted in various things breaking on my system. Some recent examples being O&O Shutup disabling secure lookups on Edge and switching various Windows settings to "managed by your organisation"; WPD breaking the useful new clipboard sharing feature of Your Phone; not having a decent search tool on Tutanotoa/Proton Mail due to the encryption; and an always-on VPN hobbling my internet speed. With that in mind, these days I'm not prepared to give up functionality in the pursuit of protecting my 'pizza orders' as you so succinctly put it. So now, like you, I take a minimalist approach to privacy using various tracking blacklists and settings in Edge, AdGuard and NextDNS and manually disabling a few of the more needless Windows telemetry features. Taking a strong approach to security, on the other hand, tends not to break things and mitigates against threats that might actually screw up my system, lose my data, jeopardise my accounts or cause me tangible grief in my day-to-day computer use. [/QUOTE]
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