Advanced Plus Security Serious Hoax's Security Configuration 2020

[SeriousHoax]

This is my budget PC that I've built recently.

 

[oldschool]

Please share µBO hard mode custom changes?

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

Nice to see another Windows internal security config!

Which browser did you use?

Also: Checker Plus for Gmail
You can add sites as PWA which use notification system so a extension isn't needed for that

 

[SeriousHoax]

Please share µBO hard mode custom changes?

Well, maybe writing custom change is a bit misleading I mean the changes I've made are "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses", "Block CSP reports" and added/enabled filters like, AdGuard Tracking Protection, Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List, Anti-Facebook, Fanboy’s Annoyance, uBlock filters – Annoyances, 1Hosts (mini). Nothing specific related to hard mode.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Which browser did you use?

Chromium Edge mostly nowadays but also Firefox.

Also: Checker Plus for Gmail
You can add sites as PWA which use notification system so a extension isn't needed for that

I tried that actually few months ago but was missing a lot of notifications. Not sure why that happened so ended up opting for the Checker Plus for Gmail extension instead.
But ok, I'll give PWA another try.

 

[harlan4096]

Maybe a bit overkill with browser add-ons ...

 

[CyberTech]

You should add ''Chatting with random girls'' in Computer Activity

 

[SeriousHoax]

Maybe a bit overkill with browser add-ons ...

Each has its purpose.

uBlock Origin is obviously the adblocker,

ClearURLs is for removing tracking parameters from urls and also let me copy clear links from websites,

Cookie AutoDelete is for removing cookies, indexdb, local storage for every sites except the one I whitelist,

Bitwarden - Free Password Manager is self explanatory,

Checker Plus for Gmail is for receiving email notification on the browser,

Enhancer for YouTube is necessary for me because even though my internet connection is perfectly capable of playing videos at 1080p, it never automatically does. So I need this to make sure every video starts playing at 1080p. It also has a feature to enlarge the video player without going full screen which is far better than YouTube's theater mode.

enhanced-h264ify is something that was quite useful for my previous laptop which had to work hard to encode YouTube's VP9 codec so I used this extension to make sure YouTube always loads h.264 videos which is far easier for GPUs to encode. I may get rid of it now if I see my current PC handling VP9 codec well which I haven't checked yet.

Minimal Scrollbar is something I use on Edge only to make the scrollbar dark on every webpage because I use the force dark mode feature of Chromium and white scrollbar on dark webpages really make things look unpleasant. It's not perfect, has some flaws but I haven't found any better option yet.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

AdGuard include uBlock origin and clearURLs in one extension.

Cookies and data can be cleared automatically in Edge. Even on a per site data.

Does Google know works with PWA? Else you could use Thunderbird or Windows 10 mail app which decrease your attack surface.

YouTube remember the video quality if cookie/ data isn't deleted

 

[TairikuOkami]

YouTube remember the video quality if cookie/ data isn't deleted

YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe

‘We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default’

www.theverge.com

There used to be an option to select the quality, but it has been removed and YouTube ignores my settings, so the extension is hassle free.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe

‘We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default’

www.theverge.com

This is from March and was because of Corona. I don't think it's still the case.

Anyway i don't have a YouTube account but the quality stay the same. It only decrease if your network get slow

 

[SeriousHoax]

AdGuard include uBlock origin and clearURLs in one extension.

ClearURLs clears even more and also like the ability to directly copy clean url by right clicking on links.

Cookies and data can be cleared automatically in Edge. Even on a per site data.

Ok, I'll check this out too. Tbh, I've become very lazy lately so putting this on my to do list also

Does Google know works with PWA? Else you could use Thunderbird or Windows 10 mail app which decrease your attack surface.

I used to use Thunderbird but newly found love with emails on the browser as I don't need to use any external app.

YouTube remember the video quality if cookie/ data isn't deleted

It doesn't on mine. I have only 8mbps internet but 30 mbps on Google related stuff like YouTube, Playstore, etc. but YouTube still plays videos at 480p/720p by default for me and like TairikuOkami said, this extension is hassle free.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Your CPU/GPU combo is so modern it should have accelerated VP9 right? No more need for enhanced-h264ify. Good setup!

 

[SeriousHoax]

Your CPU/GPU combo is so modern it should have accelerated VP9 right? No more need for enhanced-h264ify. Good setup!

You're right. I'll get rid of that.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I had to replace my motherboard yesterday from "ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0" to "Gigabyte B450M S2H ULTRA Durable".

Turns out the ASRock boards have some problems with its VRM. If I ran a game, "Rainbow Six Siege" in this case, my PC would BSOD with "Thread stuck in device drivers". After googling I found out, this only happens when ASRocks's boards are used with AMD APUs like 3400G, 3200G, 2200G.
So, I went to the shop and showed them that it's a motherboard related issue and asked them to replace it with the Gigabyte one and so they did.
So, stay away from ASRock if you're planning to use an AMD APU.
Also this is perks of not purchasing a pre-built brand PC. I would never be able get a totally different branded motherboard if that was the case.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

My internet can play 1080p without buffering but at auto Youtube insists that 360p and 480p is good enough for me so these extensions are necessary. I used to change setting everytime before these extensions, that was annoying.

 

[ForgottenSeer 85179]

So, stay away from ASRock if you're planning to use an AMD APU.

I use a Asrock B450 Pro4 board with Ryzen 5-2600 and get some stability problems too in the past. The problem was the combination with using my Radeon 5700 and 3000Mhz XMP Profil for my RAM. After changing RAM frequency to 2933Mhz get problems get away.
Only sometimes I get a system freeze and automatic restart if using sleep mode.

You use a Apu instead of CPU & CPU but maybe this was related.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I use a Asrock B450 Pro4 board with Ryzen 5-2600 and get some stability problems too in the past. The problem was the combination with using my Radeon 5700 and 3000Mhz XMP Profil for my RAM. After changing RAM frequency to 2933Mhz get problems get away.
Only sometimes I get a system freeze and automatic restart if using sleep mode.

You use a Apu instead of CPU & CPU but maybe this was related.

I also found a possible solution online but with a compromise. That was, I have to lower the CPU clock speed from 3.70 Ghz to 3.40 Ghz and lower the voltage from 1.45V to 1.35V. But I wasn't happy with that so when I took it back to the shop I didn't even tell them about this. They checked the problem again by reinstalling Windows, replacing the board with another same one but the problem remained. Then I suggested to test with the Gigabyte board and no more problem whatsoever. I'm running with XMP profile 2.0 at 3200 Mhz ram frequency. Everything is great now and my PC even boot slightly faster. This Gigabyte one is actually 500 taka/$5.90 cheaper. So, this is definitely some hardware related issue of the ASRock boards because they haven't managed to fix it with BIOS updates. There are no problem with a CPU+GPU setup, only with an APU. But like you said, even you had stability problem with an ASRock board so I don't think I'm buying an ASRock again.

 

[bayasdev]

Your CPU/GPU combo is so modern it should have accelerated VP9 right? No more need for enhanced-h264ify. Good setup!

I use it just to block Youtube's AV1 videos that are not hardware accelerated on most hardware

 

[SpiderWeb]

I use it just to block Youtube's AV1 videos that are not hardware accelerated on most hardware

You can disable AV1 in YouTube settings by itself. No need to have a risky extension that eats RAM and could possibly be snooping on your browsing history on that domain.