this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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While this is good news, the fight for privacy in the digital age will never end. They will continue to take small bites until they have the entire pie. Unfortunately we never (or rarely) regain any digital right to privacy that has been taken in the past. The best we can do is halt the further erosion of our digital privacy through vigilance, education and protest.
Personally I see it as an arms race. As they take away privacy I ramp up my use of privacy protection.
Whether that's by using encrypted comms, VPNs, browser plugins or settings.
For example I regularly use Mullvad. I recently installed Adguard Home on my OpenWRT router to block trackers. I have uBlock on my browser and may be switching to Firefox soon too.
Unfortunately we all laugh at the meme of being on death row for running an blocker in the future but it sure feels that way some days.