I have neither time, resources nor know-how to like go all out on data privacy. But I try doing things like using Proton for Mail, browsing with DuckDuckGo or Ecosia, messaging on Signal instead of WhatsApp, etc.
But I’m having a hard time responding to people who say “why do you do that, it’s completely pointless since companies like Google have all of our data anyways unless we go all out, and nobody has time for all the effort that takes”.
You can achieve privacy by not doing things online. People used to understand that if you wanted something to remain private, you literally kept it to yourself, idk what happened. Hence my radical proposal: If you have things you wish to remain private, don’t transmit those things into the largest public and most surveilled space that has ever existed, the Internet. We used to say to each other: “Don’t put anything online or type anything into a browser that you wouldn’t want to see on the frontpage of your hometown paper with your name on it.” You can’t walk into the public town square of the whole world, let your private details out, and then get miffed about muh privacy because you spoke into a place that was being listened to by corporations, it just doesn’t work that way.