“Why should I care?”, is a question often asked to me when I talk about privacy. There are plenty of reasons to preserve your privacy, but before that I must present some definitions:

Privacy, anonymity, security, and keeping secrets are seperate concepts from each other. “Keeping secrets” can be defined as hiding an embarrassing situation or event from public knowledge.

What I’ll be talking about in this post will be privacy. Before continuing, I’ll also say that these concepts can be quite related to each other. If one aims to achieve privacy, one must aim for security aswell.

Before I begin, I will say that for most people this is more a case of damage control than absolute true privacy.

By damage control, I mean using “evil” services as little as possible and opting for better alternatives instead; and maybe still using some of these services.

Of course, I have also compiled some of the very best choices for privacy. These sacrifice convenience heavily, however.

I will begin to list with a very base level privacy, with convenience being first priority, and privacy second. As it goes on, these priorities will switch places.

Now that you’ve finally made the decision to switch; here’s the how-to:

1. Install ungoogled-update.bat

1,5. Your browser may block this install (because it’s a file that executes a command), so select “Keep” on Chrome or other browsers based on chromium (vivaldi, opera, brave, etc…)

2. Run it (double click)

3. Click “y” if prompted

And you’re done. Windows will handle the rest.

What’s written in this command, if you don’t trust: “winget install –id=eloston.ungoogled-chromium -e”