I recommend:
- Install Firefox as a browser.
- Install ublock Origin Add-on to block ads, trackers and malware sites.
Even if you just use the default Easy mode.
Welcome to the Privacy Tools forum 
I thought you were just being rude, you need to understand that they are a new person in the forum and cannot know how people behave here, they might feel bad for not knowing something. Maybe you could have said that and then give a real advice, so we could understand the joke.
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- Create a list that contains all of your online accounts and write down which data you voluntarily entered. In case of any data breaches, you quickly see which of your data could be affected.
- Think twice before registering new accounts, even if a service claims to be privacy-friendly.
- Uninstall or disable software that you don’t use.
- Delete or disable online accounts that you don’t use.
In general, try to understand which data a service wants and collects from you before using it.
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Do you mean the Privacy Tools website?
There is a wiki which was created recently, but you will not find much there since it only has three or four pages which are unrelated to policies. You could help us with the expansion, though.
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Yes! i mean the website
https://prism-break.org/en/all/
PRISM Break has some good privacy information.
Categorized into Avoid and Prefer.
Why don’t Prism Break and PTio work together?
As far as I know, PRISM Break is pretty outdated, so I wouldn’t trust their recommendations THAT much. Just a warning.
I really don’t see how could that be done, I know they do basically the same, but it wouldn’t make sense for all privacy websites that recommend software to work together. They have “merged” with ThinkPrivacy already, too.
Currently using Chrome, as it’s just easier (yeah i know) But I use firefox when doing research and such. I use Ublock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Cookie autodelete, and decentraleyes when in Firefox.
It’s definitely something to think about, personally in addition to other problems. I don’t know how and if it would be OK to contribute to both simultaneously or if that would be frowned upon by either side. I hope our community manager @blacklight447 could sometime reach out to them, but I think their todo list is also getting too long.
I see activity on their issue tracker at times and there is also commit activity. If you notice something outdated or wrong there, I would suggest opening an issue or pull merge request if it’s at all possible for you. I haven’t checked their site recently.
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Might I suggest you check out DefensiveComputingChecklist.com by Michael Horowitz to see if it speaks to you. I find his advice to be well balanced, unsensationalized (to the point of being almost boring), but more importantly actionable to most normal people. It doesn’t require a ton on investment, significant change of habits or technical knowledge on your part and arguably gets you 95% of the way.
I would recommend you try to move away from Google Chrome to have better privacy. Your Add-ons on Firefox are good. Maintaining privacy can be a learning curve and it depends on how far you want to go. The choice is yours of course.
Their recommendations look fine to me. There is recent activity on their GitLab page. There is a link to them on the home page of Privacy Tools near the bottom under Tools.
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On a serious note, for your computer I would recommend you change to dual boot arrangement, Windows and Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu).
Then encrypt your home folder.
Use a password vault such as KeepassXC to manage all your site and account passwords.
Use Firefox with the recommended adjustments and extensions or use TOR browser.
If you want to be really paranoid, stop using social media such as FB, IG, Snap etc etc and maybe use a privacy centric alternative to these platforms.
I would totally do this, but I have a surface pro at the moment, (not ideal for dual booting), I have been using USB sticks for linux though, I have tried using Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian, but I’m not super familiar with them.
My Surface is an older model, with a lot less storage and ram, maybe dual booting might work, not too sure.
If you are not using Windows for anything special, consider making the switch. This is an older guide for getting Ubuntu on.
Use the 18.04lts version in place of the one in the article. Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly distro available.