User-Friendly Privacy is Better Than Perfect Privacy

Christian Stewart ✔️
DigiPrivacy
Published in
3 min readFeb 19, 2020

--

Photo by Rob Hampson on Unsplash

I’ve been writing about privacy tools for a couple of years now, and I’ve definitely learned a lot.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is people don’t give a shit about their privacy.

There are people that love to claim that they’ve completely locked down their data on the internet — but what that usually means is that they have an idea of how to do it. In reality, these people still use Google Search, Chrome, and Gmail.

Putting Privacy Into Practice Is Like Dieting

People Know What They Need To Do, But Actually Doing It Is Difficult

People may know what they should be doing when it comes to protecting their privacy, but putting it in practice is very difficult. Adopting privacy-focused practices online is similar to dieting. People know what they need to be eating to lose weight, but other factors constantly come into play.

Convenience

There are some great privacy-focused tools available, but let’s be honest, Google’s suite of products or others like it are miles ahead of their private counterparts. Using Google is so easy because it’s integrated into all of our devices from the day we buy them. Switching to privacy-friendly…

--

--