I think a lot of measures mentioned in the article are not good recommendations, not only many are way harder than "low" or "low-medium" difficulty, IMHO, some recommendations have serious security tradeoffs that may not help protecting "privacy" at all.<p>> Be very careful of the browser extensions you use and install an Ad Blocker<p>In order to make an Ad Blocker extension work, usually you need to give it permission to inspect and manipulate all websites you visit. How could a normal people be careful about that?<p>> If you like Chrome, there’s an “un-googled” version of Chromium you can use<p>You need to either know how to build that thing from source (and vet the un-google patches), or learn to verify a pre-build binaries provided by some random dude on the internet.<p>> If you buy your own personal storage (NAS), you can also have your own personal cloud instance. It’s not that hard.<p>In order to have an ok-ish experience that does not suck, you need to expose it to the internet, setup certificates for TLS, do 3-2-1 backup, learn RAID ... oh, and before all these, good luck finding a consumer grade NAS system with good security.
I've soured on the whole idea that protecting your privacy is solely an individual responsibility. Individual-level solutions can never fix what is a system problem with privacy-invading organizations and weak-to-nonexistent laws restraining them.
"Set up your own personal cloud instance" is adamantly not what I'd expect a non-techie to ever have the bandwidth to do, let alone a novice techie who was getting comfortable with some of the other suggestions.<p>I appreciate the intent of this article (even thought about writing something similar but more for a 'resisting censorship for artists' angle). But this strikes me as naive at best as to what your average Joe can be expected to manage without shepherding. I had to teach my dad how to turn on a computer for crying out loud.