The Privacy Iceberg

This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.

Transcription (for the visually impaired)

(I tried my best)

The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.

The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:

A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:

An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:

The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:

  • A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
  • An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
  • A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
  • A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
  • An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”

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  • dontblink@feddit.itEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I think I’m probably slowly transitioning to “the ghost” but more as a matter of digital minimalism than for privacy lmao

  • Anna@lemmy.ml
    91·
    11 hours ago

    Using basic things like Graphene OS and keepass shouldn’t be considered privacy activist

  • admin@lemmy.today
    7·
    15 hours ago

    The only thing stopping me from being ‘the Activist Group’ is that Mullvad requires payment. Sorry, but I’m running a little tight on budget.

    At the same time, I can’t use Proton VPN for torrenting.

      • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
        7·
        18 hours ago

        I was disapponted at that, I spooled up one of those instances a few months back and its federated and is magical. If only I could convince my family to move away from that old group text grumbles in person who cosplays as a sysadmin

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
      252·
      24 hours ago

      Probably because people above the waterline don’t know Mozilla exists, and people below have seen how things have been going lately.

      • candyman337@lemmy.world
        4·
        15 hours ago

        Firefox is really bad a portraying what they’re actually doing, and the privacy concerns people have with them have been widely overblown. But on top of that librewolf is a privacy oriented fork not made by Mozilla

        • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          For want of $100 /year Apple developer subscription , the libewolf team can’t sign binaries for Silicon M series Macs.

          I spent an hour and a half trying to get librewolf to work, and just gave up for Waterfox instead.

          On my laptop I run Firefox for some things, Watefox for others, and fall back to Chrome only as absolutely necessary when Gecko can’t get me there.

          • candyman337@lemmy.world
            1·
            12 hours ago

            I tried waterfox and it was just too glitchy for me I had many more crashes than Firefox, and their claim to fame was that chrome extensions worked with it but I literally never got a single one working. Session buddy just saves your sessions locally, but that would not work AT ALL on waterfox.

            • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              10 hours ago

              I didn’t even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

              My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

              I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine’s memory.

      • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
        11·
        22 hours ago

        They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 hours ago

      A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

      Did AI write this?

    • The 8232 Project@lemmy.mlOP
      361·
      1 day ago

      “As seen on TV” does not imply privacy, it just implies a large advertising budget. These are software that market themselves as private (and are sometimes better than nothing at all) but may still be just as bad as software on the tip of the iceberg.

  • neuroneiro@lemmy.world
    312·
    23 hours ago

    Was going to say links or it never happened but you provided them! And categorized by level! Excelsior!

    Thanks also to the comments giving more information.

    So grateful for this platform. For the most part.

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Enthusiast level. Not bad. Not bad. Also where would you put librewolf?

    • LeTak@lemm.ee
      16·
      11 hours ago

      You can disable the most bloat and remove the ads. After that , it is a very good Chrome alternative. If you have to use chromium based browsers. Feel free to name a better one that has adblocking (after manifest v3) and fingerprint protection.

        • LeTak@lemm.ee
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Ok looks interesting, it is missing a Mac/iOS version but else, pretty promising. Only downside is, that it looks hard to recommend for family and friends that are not tech savvy.