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Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:16 pm
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jay (support)
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I've not used any Google service that requires a login for years (I don't trust any company whose primary product is me). I also switched to Bing years ago and more recently switched from that to DuckDuckGo.
I'm more and more allowing Safari's strong password suggester to create my passwords so each site gets it's own unique long password. This can sometimes still be a pain if the UI to autofill from the keychain (or the new fill functions on iOS) don't work for some reason, but that's becoming less of an issue. And I use Safari (on the Mac rather than Chrome or FireFox) so the password integration is great. I am totally annoyed at those large websites that can't be bothered to test on Safari (even on iOS!!) so I generally just find alternatives when necessary. I keep Chrome installed for the flash-based websites that are still (somehow) around, but I don't use it often for that. Mostly, I keep Chrome and FF around to test our website.
I use all of the iCloud services (mail, picts, docs, keychain, etc). So far I continue to trust that Apple will continue to put personal privacy ahead of all else. But I'm also watching them carefully.
I haven't done anything to try and lock down my Mac really - rather, I'm trusting that only people I know can get onto my local network (and that they won't do any damage). And it's managed/protected by the great Unifi products. Perhaps I'm naive, but I've always been on the less stringent side of local network security.
I'm about "this close" to killing my FB account. I've pretty much switched to Apple News to find the news I want to read, so FB is now really just a way to keep in touch with friends. But I'm more and more convinced that it's not worth the privacy risks and the untrustworthy culture that FB seems to foster.
I've not yet switched any usernames. I'm hoping that strong unique passwords everywhere will secure me enough. Guess time will tell. I suppose I can still be tracked based on that, but I suspect that my email(s) is a much better way of tracking me and I'm definitely not going to change that any time soon.