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>1. The embrace of private and anonymous cryptocurrencies. I do think it's a good thing that cryptocurrencies are being adopted as they are becoming more mainstream but to challenge the financial establishment and even governments we need to collectively embrace cryptocurrencies such as Monero to truly challenge the system.
Monero is definitely good in comparison to other crypto due to its anonymous nature.
Don't go for Bitcoin as your wallet is effectively a receipt of every single one of your past transactions. So if you bought something with it ten years ago, someone that has your wallet address can see absolutely every single thing you have bought and paid for among which is included what you bought ten years ago. As such you are surrendering your privacy to anyone you hand your wallet address to, which makes it a powerful tool for governments and banks to spy on you with. You could go for a different wallet, sure, but that is just you using a bandaid solution to pretend that the problem doesn't exist.
>2. The support for open source software. You're basically part of the problem if you keep using proprietary junk such as Windows or OSX or anything from Microsoft and Apple because the more you use their products the more control that these companies have. Find a good Linux distro and other open source software and learn how to use it.
The battle is only really won once the hardware becomes open source too. The software is not that significant in this matter, although it still very much is, what matters more is supporting open source hardware. Fully open source, not partially open source with propietary building blocks and portions.
>4. Reduce your dependency of online retail platforms such as Amazon. I understand that it may be inconvenient but do try to use smaller online retailers whenever possible.
Try to get shit from the supplier directly. They won't always ship or deliver shit themselves, but in many cases they will. Thus allowing you to pay the supplier instead of a middleman like Amazon. If you see something that you would like to get on Amazon, consider seeing if you can't get it directly from the manufacturer instead. Generally it's cheaper that way as well.
6. Do support companies that contribute to open source but don't fully trust them. For example, Valve has been doing plenty of progress to bring gaming to Linux but they are known to ban and censor video games on Steam then.
And when it comes to hardware, support ones that respect the right to repair. Android is open source, but really the smartphones it is on certainly don't respect your right to repair them.
>8. Anonymity is your friend. Don't do anything stupid for you to lose it. Do what is necessary to make people know less about you.
Instead of simply withholding information, overload any malicious actors trying to use it against you by using false information whereever possible. Some random person halfway across the planet doesn't need to know that it's a sunny afternoon where you are, they most likely wouldn't care if you withheld this or simply lied to them about it. It's benign information and is completely useless to the person you intended your message for, but someone else reading it could use this info for correlating shit to you. So just say it's a monsoon at 3 AM. The fed reading it might think it's truthful information and start chasing phantoms. And the more red herrings you leave, the bigger the chance someone unknowingly gets caught on one. Develop a habit of scattering benign lies within the information you put out and keep actual truthful personal information on a need-to-know basis. Some social media website doesn't need to know that you're not actually a 43 year-old woman called Pernilla Clementine, nor do they need to know your email or phone number.
>Firefox (I recommend hardening it in the about:config section
Just use Tor browser. It's a modified version of Firefox made with privacy in mind and you don't actually need to use Tor on the Tor browser, you can just use it like any other. And really more people should start using Tor, you see lots of people considering it but not a whole lot of people actually doing it.
>11. If you have the resources, consider mining your own crypto then.
Unless you have access to super cheap power or electronics, don't do it. With all the supply chain disruptions, whatever electronics you have now are going to be a lot more valuable than they were two or four years ago and the price for computers isn't going to be dropping any time soon. So don't fuck your computer by mining crypto with it unless it is hardware you got specifically for that purpose and that you are not using for anything else.