This awesome and revolutionary tool we call the Internet is so powerful that it's becoming a threat to the freedom of the average user, who, in exchange for services, hands over his/her data, therefore giving up personal independence and liberty.

Here are noted various arguments, thoughts, speeches, documents, ideas and step-by-step guides to achieve a healthier online experience

Resources

Random links about privacy online

• The Social Dilemma, a documentary on how Social Media are destroying the world and the ones who live in it (us)
• My Year Without Google
• Free Software, Richard Stallman
• Richard Stallman’s website
• Privacy Tools there are a lot of cool references here
• Why Privacy Matters - TED
• CryptoPaper
• Andy Yen (ProtonMail CEO) TED Talk
• Nothing to hide argument
  • How to counter it - 1
  • How to counter it - 2
• Blog article: how to live without tech giants
• ethical.net
• Human by Design
• Ethical Design
• Tech diet (an AWESOME website)
• https://www.designkit.org/resources
• great video privacy
• Why AMP is bad
• Presa Diretta “riprendiamoci i nostri dati”
• Luke Smith’s stuff
  • internet independence playlist
  • replace social media with RSS
• Open Media Codecs
• Google Watches You
• PolitePol: create an RSS feed for any page
• Movim, social network and XMPP messaging app
• Restore privacy - Google Alternatives
• Facebook Doesn’t tell users everything it really knows about them
• deGoogle by a single person
• Okuna
• Discussione di Filosofia di gruppo su Dieci ragioni per eliminare il proprio account sui social media. Il mio intervento a al minuto 44:45
• Do not track Documentary (2015)
• donttrack.us
• PrivacySpy
• PriBot
• The Social Dilemma creators interview
• Switching Software
• Take Control of your tech life in seven moves
• WhatsApp vs Telegram vs Signal
• Why ditching WhatsApp - Vice
• EFF’s Surveillance Self Defense
• Open Wireless Movement

Roadmap

1. Quit Social Media
   • Convert to Indie Web
2. Backup, download, reorganize and clean data from Google Drive
   1. Check Storage folder
   2. Check Shared with me folder
3. Reduce the digital footprint
   1. Stop using pricey and unethical services
      1. Switch from Flickr to Piwigo (70€/year vs 96€/3-years)
      2. Quit Spotify
   2. Quit IMDb and opt to a ethical alternative
      • consider TMDb
   3. Delete unused accounts and subscriptions
   4. Use AnonAddy only for online subscriptions
4. Check policies, usage terms, privacy conditions of all the tools and services in use
5. Improve PGP keys management
6. Self-host @tommi.space email addresses
   1. Setup a mail server
   2. Completely switch to self-hosted mail server
      1. import Gmail data
      2. import Protonmail data
   3. AnonAddy everywhere on the web
7. Install and configure self-hosted apps only
8. Set LibreDNS as the system-wide encrypted DNS (already used as DNS over HTTPS in Firefox)

further steps

These are further improvements which aren’t likely to be achieved in the near future.

1. Install and use LineageOS instead of OxygenOS
2. Install and use a Linux distro instead of MacOS
3. Private DNS