If you don’t want the NSA to spy on you, don’t use anything with a modem. Otherwise forget about it.
By the way the CIA uses telegram to let people “securely” contact them. That’s making me believe it is definitely compromised.
That’s the catch: you can’t not use Google at all if you’re online at all, because Google has managed to insert itself into every little corner of the internet.
And that’s how the surveillance trap has quietly snapped shut on all of us without most of us noticing anything.
George Orwell had it wrong: the surveillance isn’t conducted directly by a tyrannical dictatorship but subtly, indirectly by the private sector in cahoots with the government. And the date he predicted was 40 years off. Other than that, he was right: we live in a full-blown dystopia now.
A good ad-blocker goes a long way. You can block all Google domains with minimal impact to non-Google services.
Stay off the internet
Please post the link to the video before we can discuss. Most of the videos are nothing but conspiracy theories.
Sure thing round earther
Telling your contacts not to use Google nor Meta/Facebook. If everyone you email use gmail, then Google has all your emails.
Use Monero.
You need to block Google completely. Simply abstaining from Google services and/or using a browser ad blocker will do you no good — like 80%* of apps / the web include their tracking assets (among many others).
* Just a number I pulled out of my ass, don’t sue me
Sweet summer child… it’s a LOT! Especially now. Tl;dr FOSS is your friend, EVERY actor you engage with in a capitalist system, even the state itself is an adversary… You WILL be spied on doing modern anything online, you basically need to do a cost/reward calculation about what you are willing to do. There are many reputable online privacy guides, there are communities here on Lemmy, but sadly there’s no good one size fits all solution here in the modern chaotic landscape.
(Glossary: FOSS is FREE open source software, like Linux, among a galaxy of great projects run by humans for humans and not for capital, and all free as in speech, not beer)
