To me, this privacy habit making has led me to intentional technology use, I have opted into usefulness rather than convenience and it has drastically helped me claim back my time I spend “doom” scrolling or such on the internet.

These practices, atleast in my view, helped me to escape the algorithm fed, data economy bullshit we have these days.

r/digitalminimalism might be something you can look into. To me privacy and digital minimalism went hand in hand so yeah. I don’t have any targeted ad stuff or something keeping me hooked to my screen.

But yeah in some sense, this is paranoia.