How do you keep your data private?

Question

I feel a bit paranoid now with the services I use. It seems like everyone is trying to harvest everything I do for AI training. For example, if I start using Notion, are they going to use everything to train some AI of theirs? I'm assuming Figma is training on what people create. It seems like Microsoft is going to be training on everything done using Recall.It really shouldn't be so easy as burying an agreement in the terms somewhere to gain ownership over your data, but that's the way it is now. Where do we go from here? How do we use computers connected to the web while still maintaining privacy?

GTP · Accepted Answer

Look into self-hosting. Start small with only one or two services that have a big impact on your privacy (e.g., backup of your phone's pics with Immich) and expand from there once you gained some experience. Things will go wrong, expecially in the beginning. So set up encrypted backups, I use Kopia for that, one repository on an external SSD and another on Backblaze.