Hiking, camping, fishing, outdoor activities.

Woodworking, painting, knitting, blacksmithing.

Basically anything that's not connected to a screen.

Go to your public library and just sit there and read a book

You could try jacking off

Buy a book with cash. Read the book.

The entertainment landscape in privacy seems pretty bleak, since you no longer own the movies you watch

It's the other way around.

Personally I haven't really changed anything about my entertainment other than how I attain it. Torrented movies, shows, and books, cracked games, and ad+sponsor blocked YT via Piped mean I get all the same entertainment as ever if not more (plus I actually own it forever). The only thing I'll admit I miss a bit is Reddit.

Have you tried touching grass? 😃

But seriously, most outdoor activities are like the most private things you'll do all day.

Board games with friends and family. My brother rotates hosting board game night with his friends and it's great fun.

You can own movies by pirating them. same goes for games etc

Pirate movies, shows, and music.

That and I play old games. SMB 2 rn.

Minetest in creative mode with Radio Free Fedi's comfy channel playing in the background 🤌

Emulation is a great for offline gaming. You can also find some great FOSS games on flathub like srb2, srb2k and Mindustry. You can also get old books for free on Project Gutenberg and audiobooks on Librivox. In Germany (and other European countries) there is state financed tv which has free drmfree adfree and (relatively) privacy friendly streaming services. Newgrounds also is a treasure trove, especially for music. Also there is piracy

Anything that doesn't require high tech still works really well. Don't need to worry about tracking software that tries to sell you something with say a horse or two. And as a bonus you get lots of physical activity as well which is healthy.

Cycling is amazing if there are good roads that aren't much traveled around your area and check your local arthouse cinema, they even still might have paper tickets 😸

Go read at your local library, you don't even need to check the books out if you read them there.

You can make your own open-source games, it's pretty fun. And of course there are loads of games that have no telemetry what so ever.

I just get a separate device with a fake identity and no personal data for games and proprietary software. Short videos are hosted by very invasive companies and don't have any APIs or anything to make custom privacy-friendly frontends so it's out of the question (fortunately imo because that things are addictive and can degrade a person in months). Idk much about movies because I've never used a paid movie service like Netflix but since they're paid, privacy is very questionable there.

Unfortunately digital entertainment is very privacy-invasive overall. You can fix some of the privacy issues by the cost of convenience but some things will remain too invasive to be viable in many threat models.

"Shorts" rot your brain like maggots. They are like smoking nicotine. You are probably suffering from withdraw of domine.

I think it is healthy to not be constantly entertained. Go outside and be in nature for a while. Maybe you could even meet someone new.

I read books. I tinker.

Motorcycling. Nearly all modern bikes have no ability to touch the internet, so you can get into a really fun hobby with practical benefits without being spied on.