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  "path": "/t/skills-benefits-gained-from-embracing-online-privacy/37053#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-11T05:59:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "What skills and benefits unrelated to privacy have you gained by becoming more private online?\n\nAside from becoming more aware of my privacy, I’ve also indirectly gained a few skills along the way.\n\n  * Managing my own music library on an mp3 player and learning how to tag my files (resulted from quitting Spotify and YouTube Music). I kinda had to relearn this after having a dependence on subscription services for so long.\n  * Better time management due to not using social media as much. It’s surprising how much time you have during the day when you aren’t mindlessly scrolling.\n  * Designed my own homelab with self hosted services (Ollama/OpenWebUI, Home Assistant) and flashing my routers with OpenWRT.\n  * Learning networking, VLANs, and segmenting my network to isolate smart devices from my personal ones.\n  * Ultimately becoming more technically inclined than I was prior.\n\n\n\nOverall, my privacy journey has helped me develop a lot more skills than I realized. I’d like to hear about the benefits you’ve noticed in your lives.",
  "title": "Skills/Benefits Gained from Embracing Online Privacy"
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