A Beginners Guide To Privacy (Final, I Guess?)
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Last Moderated On August 18 2025 at 5:24 PM IST
Firstly, this is a beginners guide with some elements nudging towards some intermediary stuffs and for now I intend to keep it that way to make new people comfortable in adopting privacy and not overwhelm anyone and I hope nothings too complicated and if you do find something complicated, feel free to ask me about it at u/sansnotfound, currently I do not have any other social medias, if I do start any I'll mention it here!
There is no 100% Protection, there is no "perfect" thing in this world. We are taught at an early stages of school that "perfect only exists in theory" (perfect conductivity, perfect elasticity, perfectly elastic demand etc), so this just like every other thing in the universe could only protect you close to perfect but never perfect. I just wanted to state this as I personally tried so hard to achieve perfect anonymity but got burned out instead, so stop chasing perfection and make better of your current setup!
Even if you just change your browser, search engine (yes, they're two different things) and keyboard, you're doing better than 90% of the average person on the internet!!
Why use a pastebin?
It allows me to make every possible guides in a neat environment with some useful tools to highlight certain texts, also it allows me to moderate the post, unlike a reddit post where I cannot edit it after posting it. My last post got flagged by reddit so that's a reason too.
Will this Post be actively moderated?
Yes, at least for the foreseeable future.
What if the link is broken or there are inaccuracies?
In that case contact me at u/sansnotfound. If it's an inaccuracy I guess I'll credit the user for correcting it.
A tip before entering each guides?
Read the recommended guides and materials mentioned at the top of every guides!! They're very much valuable especially in Windows and Linux particularly.
Donations or other incentives on why I did this?
No incentives and I do not require any donations, I do not even use a URL shortener. Please share with other communities and people you know, about the idea of privacy and help them out!
How do we know what has been changed?
I'll be adding changelog since the day I start to change something or you can use a RSS feeder to constantly get updated page too IG.