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Yet Another Privacy Guide

There are many privacy guides out there. All of them have flaws. Of course they do. No guide is perfect. Here are issues with some guides I've seen:

The New Oil [1], for example, criticizes proprietary software [2], then goes on to recommend MySudo, a proprietary app, for a VOIP number [3].
Privacy Guides [4] recommends ONLY phones from Google [5]. Climate change is the biggest threat to human health [6] and Google pays money to organizations who refuse to say that climate change is real [7]. Not to mention that it is much easier to replace a battery on a Fairphone [8] than a Google phone [9].
The main issue with GoFoss [10] is they are still incomplete. For instance, they list Briar for Android, Signal, Element, Jami, and XMPP, but not Session, Nheko, Briar Desktop, Linphone, or QTox [11].
DigDeeper [12] has a "perfect is the enemy of good" problem. Their browser article basically just says that no browser is completely private [13]. While true, the point isn't to find the browser that is 100% private, because it doesn't exist. The point is to find browsers that are mostly private.
My old guide's major issue was that I tried a depth first search instead of a breadth first search.

Plans to Address This

I now realize that was a mistake. I will start out with minimal details for all sections first, and then slowly expand on each. This means there will not be any reasoning at first and the reasoning will slowly fill in. I am also only having this guide on Gemini now. That way I am not limited to just basic HTML for the HTTP side. Gemini is a very good protocol for distributing text, unlike HTTP which is, despite the name, much better for distributing software. The main benefit of using HTTP instead of your local machine is you can use other people's storage.

ugh, then you can make the informed decision yourself.

Links

[1] The New Oil

[2] The New Oil says free software is great!

[3] The New Oil says the proprietary app MySudo is great!

[4] Privacy Guides

[5] Privacy Guides only recommends Google phones.

[6] Climate change is the biggest threat to human health.

[7] Google doesn't want us to stop climate change. So much for "don't be evil."

[8] This is how easy it is to replace a battery on a Fairphone.

[9] This is how hard it is to replace a battery on a Google Phone.

[10] GoFOSS

[11] GoFOSS only lists Briar, Jami, XMPP, Element, and Signal

[12] DigDeeper's website

[13] Their summary seems to suggest only Pale Moon. But scroll up a little and you'll see why they don't even recommend that.

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