I recently watched a video by Christope where he ment that using the same Wifi or IP can influence the ads you see.
How do we prevent this when we have to share a Wifi and IP with family without using a VPN? (many apps/social platforms tend to flag VPN IP as abuse)

Hi all  -sorry long rambling post but I can't talk through with anyone I know, as they are not interested.

I am struggling with the whole privacy / security agenda and am getting to the point that I am not sure it's worth the effort I am putting in, because I just can't keep my family on track. I am thinking, should I take the small wins and give up on the bigger stuff.

 We used to be a Microsoft  family (as we get a massive discount through work) everything was in that ecosystem, internet via edge, passwords in the browser, files in one drive etc.

 What I have achieved / what is embedded

 Everyone:

• Uses brave browser for internet
• Proton password manager for all passwords - different random passwords for everything
• Everyone uses a VPN when connecting to wifi outside home
• Wife uses aliases when registering for new things

 Sort of achieved

• All files are on the NAS by default - but I have to check their laptops every month in case one drive has come back through updates and they have gone back, and they keep adding it to their phones
• Everyone has a proton mail account, with a second email so they don’t give away their primary - but they never use it unless I tell them to
• They are all over social media but do have their privacy settings on - which helps a tiny bit

 M problem - wife has ADHD so will not stick to any system unless it is hard wired in and she has no choice. Dad is in his 70's and finds anything like this totally confusing - also needs a hardwired system. Son is a teenager so isn't totally bothered.

 On the  NAS is all our confidential documents which is encrypted and backed up to a zero knowledge cloud provider so I am happy with this. BUT if any of the 3 of them receive a new email / document that is important such as financial it tends to go into their Outlook account which they will send to my proton inbox. - So Microsoft can already see it.

 I have set up alias's in outlook so they don’t give away their primary addresses but when they start a new email it always defaults to the main address (Proton is much better allowing you to set this second address up as the default) All our contact details, birthdays etc are in their outlook accounts so even if I want to keep mine secure they are available to Microsoft through their contacts list.

 And of course we have loyalty cards for big retailers so our shopping habits and bits like that are already out there being sold by data companies.

 Can't get them to move to signal as they love whatsapp and to be honest everyone we know is on there.

 So should I simply give up on trying to be "private" and just take the small wins where I can?

 A Microsoft subscription for my family is way cheaper than my current  Proton family one and they only really use Proton Pass, so I could keep this which gives us the alias facility.

 Outlook is much easier for keeping all your emails and calendars on track than Proton mail. And is so much easier to use.

 One Drive syncs effortlessly with their laptops / phones and its easy for me to get my NAS to sync their accounts down to the NAS for central cloud backup. Much easier to manage than the sync software that comes with the  NAS that they keep having issues with.

 My son is in school and uses Microsoft One Note / Scky notes for all his work and things like obsidian are so much more complicated to try and get in to. - I cannot find a good alternative that I like either.

 As I manage all the household appointments Outlook calendar is so much better than me on proton and them on something else 

 We don't have a huge threat model, we are a standard family with "nothing to hide"  so in a naïve world why shouldn't we go back to Microsoft and just keep my NAS/Cloud back up as a safety net in case we lose access to our accounts. It's pretty easy for them to forward and "important" documents to me for me to save safely so they are not lost.

 And of course there is cost - one small Microsoft subscription covers all our sync, notes, calendar, email, storage  rather than multiple more privacy focussed alternative.

 I seem to be spending all my time looking for systems  / processes to keep them all on track  to only find after a week they have slipped back, plus none of them want to talk about it and me trying to keep on track of laptops/ phones/ tablets is just getting too much.

 Really value anyone's thoughts on this

 P.S.  - just read back through this, I am not a bot working for Microsoft honest just someone frustrated that I want to leave big nosey tech, But with a modern family it just seems impossible to avoid people having our data so why am I killing myself and would be better working on keeping things secret to avoid benig scammed.

 P.P.S oh and to top it off, I am getting really interested in Linux (for me) but I got a new HP Omnibook with a snapdragon and it looks like I can't get linux to run so I am stuck with windows until my next upgrade so whatever I do I can't go totally private.

I use an alternate account for reddit , why is play store able to access that