Privacy Is a Lifestyle, Not a Setting

Everyone treats privacy like a toggle. Flip “Incognito Mode” on, and magically you’re invisible. Spoiler: you’re not.

Privacy isn’t a setting you enable once. It’s a lifestyle. It means questioning every shiny free service. It means saying “no” to convenience when convenience is just surveillance in disguise. It means realizing that “cloud” is just someone else’s computer you can’t control.

But here’s the kicker: privacy is inconvenient. It takes effort. You’ll lose features, you’ll lose integrations, you’ll lose the dopamine hit of everything syncing across every device instantly. That’s the trade-off.

And most people won’t bother, because the lie of convenience is too comfortable. They want the illusion of privacy without the cost. That’s why we get watered-down “privacy-friendly” products that are about as private as yelling your secrets in a crowded mall.

Privacy isn’t a button. It’s a discipline. Either you live it, or you don’t.