Karpathy’s Digital hygiene

Andrej Karpathy provides an in-depth guide to digital hygiene, offering practical strategies to protect personal information and minimize digital vulnerabilities across various online platforms and services.

Andrej Karpathy on Digital Hygiene:

Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing. The sketchiness starts with major tech companies who are incentivized to build comprehensive profiles of you, to monetize it directly for advertising, or sell it off to professional data broker companies who further enrich, de-anonymize, cross-reference and resell it further. Inevitable and regular data breaches eventually runoff and collect your information into dark web archives, feeding into a whole underground spammer / scammer industry of hacks, phishing, ransomware, credit card fraud, identity theft, etc. This guide is a collection of the most basic digital hygiene tips, starting with the most basic to a bit more niche.

A nice guide for tools if you want to improve bit by bit your privacy online, a topic which gets more and more important every day that passes.