Do you recommend some or know how to find out? To be more privacy-friendly ofc

EDIT: -possibly working with addons like ublock (vern cc has ad breaks) and emote support (so chat isnt a cryptic jungle)

-Primarily on desktop, but additional app welcome

-Possibly not even communicating with Amazon (like for YT for example only psTube does to my understanding)

QUESTION: Could it possibly work to still participate in the chats (like i imagine a throwaway account for example) or does that break the whole concept of privacy? How does that work exactly.

  • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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    23 hours ago

    Thanks i will look into this.

    I’m new to privacy and just want to cut all data selling opportunities for big corpo, does that change or would you add to your response after knowing that? I’m pretty uneducated on the whole backend mechanics, it’s just the possibility of ill intent and the damage corporations can do with such data that frightens me

    Your information seems very knowledgeable, so I will be very thankful for more guidance :p

    Buying a VPN seems to be something I need to budget in one day… It’s not that easy during these times to get money flexible

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      I would say a vpn and that app and a throwaway email address are all you would really need. Proton might have some free servers for vpn im not sure. You’ll never be sure but it’s a relatively inconsequential item so just do your “best” and then stop stressing. A throwaway email and a vpn and using a specific browsers (with Ublock) only for twitch would accomplish similar.

      Get Bitwarden and keep all your passwords unique and safe with a very strong password or phrase as your master that is never reused anywhere. That will give you more security than worrying about every site you click on because having an account breached will generally impact your life negatively. Getting a personalized ad here or there is way less problematic on the grand scale of things.

      • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
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        6 hours ago

        thank you so much, this is very helpful really

        so a personal ad is all the data could be abused for? I mean meta recently just misused rights of book authors to train their AI with lots of terabytes worth of literature.

        Its just a business expense, and so is I imagine personal data storage. Data sciene & full auto analysis catered to your corpo demands could be very powerful and evil in my eyes, idk I wish I could somehow be fully convinced that theres no danger, but I just am not as long as corporates see these things as business expenses and exists like nothing happened