What measures do you take to protect your privacy online?
- Thread starter Azazel
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- Jan 27, 2018
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Privacy is an illusion on the internet, you can try but for the most part you will not succeed. Only thing I do is stay off social media and limit who gets my email address and personal information.
- Mar 13, 2021
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I use uBlock and Malwarebytes Browser Guard, both have track blocking you can enable. Beyond that, why bother.
- May 13, 2017
- 2,489
NextDNS blocking all, but about 20 TLDs, plus some antitracking filters, they block pretty much all ads. CookieAutodelete to remove caches on the go.
Separate browsers for separate accounts, Edge for browsing, Brave only for Google/Youtube and LibreWolf only for FB, the rest of the internet blocked.
Separate browsers for separate accounts, Edge for browsing, Brave only for Google/Youtube and LibreWolf only for FB, the rest of the internet blocked.
- Apr 5, 2021
- 571
What privacy? All your bases are belong to your ISP. Seriously, all you can do is consciously limit what you provide when you surf the web and don't do anything nefarious to set off red flags. I guess using Linux helps because you don't have all that telemetry that's baked into Windows.
I will replicate this with Edge + Chrome + Brave some day. I like your out-of-the-box approach
DNS over HTTPS using a third-party DNS (not your ISP) should limit the amount of data your ISP collects?
- Apr 5, 2021
- 571
Could be. I never really thought about that. I am actually using that with Floorp, and Linux firewall DNS rules as well as Network settings. There are IPv6 firewall rules and in Network settings as well.
Technically yes but it's ultimately irrelevant. Yes, your DNS request isn't visible, but if the domain you're visiting doesn't support ECH, then the domain will leak to your ISP via SNI. And even if the domain does support ECH, your ISP can still still determine what domain you're visiting by matching OCSP serial numbers to IP addresses and then reverse-resolve those IPs into domain names.
If someone wants privacy from their ISP, they should use a VPN or Tor.
- Mar 29, 2018
- 7,116
I use ad blocking and anti-tracking in the browser. Anything more is not worth the effort. "We are the corporate Borg. Resistance is futile." 
Stay safe, not paranoid.
Stay safe, not paranoid.
Thanks
Now I understand why so many people I know use a VPN from their home for private use: -)I understand companies use VPN for home workers for extra privacy and reducing data leakage, but I only used a VPN when away from home using WIFI and local netwerk infrastructure I don't know (or trust).
Personally I'm uncomfortable routing all my traffic through a VPN, but to each their own.Thanks
- Mar 29, 2018
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I won't do it. AVLabs advises VPN for phones that no longer are supported with updates. That seems sensible, but I won't even do that.
I don't even have a VPN installed on my phone anymore. I never remembered to turn it on when connecting to public WiFi and eventually I just said screw it and uninstalled it. Have yet to experience any negative effects of doing so.
With HTTPS being ubiquitous nowadays I question whether the advice is even relevant anymore.
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