[markomalley]

Good list, though I don't 100% agree with all of his recommendations.

I tend to think that some extensions (like Adblock) are very useful in maintaining privacy.

One useful extension for Chrome (Chromium) and Firefox is "Trashmail." Trashmail allows you to generate temporary email addresses that you can use for various and sundry websites (such as if you wish to comment on a news article, but don't want to subject your real email address to a ton of spam). You can forward up to 10 responses for each free email address to a real address for a month -- free version -- or you can pay $13 a year and have the ability to create up to 2500 disposable addresses that don't automatically delete until you tell them to do so. (I use "free" -- but your needs may change)

Secondly, he advocates the use of TOR. I agree that TOR is a really good option, but TOR is slow and a lot of sites will not allow themselves to be accessed by TOR (such as Yelp).

Having said that, there are a LOT of options out there for VPN services. Both paid and free. One option to look at is VPNBook. This is a bare bones system with no user interface (you get a login and then configure your client yourself). Of course, it's slower, but you are not being tracked.

[posterchild]

Most of these may prohibit *websites* from tracking you but your ISP still knows where you go unless you use a VPN.

[mass55th]

I use a VPN on my desk top computer. I can browse from IP addresses all around the world.

[Fungi]

Get an offshore VPN.

[frog in a pot]

Thank you for this!

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[Rembrandt]

Interesting suggestions all. But the most dangerous is not shown and may be the most likely. Extortion as in “pay me x dollars or I’ll share this with your entire list of friends, your employer, etc.

[doc1019]

Later

[RightField]

Bookmark.

[raybbr]

Internet tech ping

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[snooter55]

BMK

[TChad]

Firefox-based browsers have an "Ask to Activate" setting for Flash in Tools > Add-Ons.

Unless Tor's performance has recently improved, I don't think it is a practical option.

[tbw2]

* Send letters.
* In person discussions in private locations are private.
* World War 2 methods of conveying written info is just as good today.
* Your paper diary is private. Your blog and social media is not.

[elteemike]

Any opinions pro or con regarding Searchlock...?

[Swordmaker]

Ten excellent suggestions for the post-Privacy Internet World. These are platform agnostic as they have to do with the way the Internet works, Cookies, and your browser's propensity to leave breadcrumbs around where ever your trail has taken you. — PING!

Thanks to Freeper markomalley for posting this thread. I also agree with his extensions caveats found in Reply #1. Take them to heart.

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[marktwain]

I worry about private companies far less than I worry about government spooks.

We live in 1984, in terms of privacy.

[call meVeronica]

Bump 4 l8r

[Bob434]

TOR browser is liek a big red flag for gubmint officials- They CAN track you when using TOR- (There’s a yuotube video proving it- ) So basically you are just attractign more sophisticated surveillance folks when you wave the TOR flag o nthje net

[Squantos]

.....

The simple use of VPN + Tor + Tails + Proton Email , all free shy of maybe your choice of a VPN are good security “IF USED PROPERLY”.......

My 2 cents .....Stay Safe !!

[WildHighlander57]

#9 virtual machines

I’d like to be able to do this on Ubuntu, but could never figure out how to do it.

Any good tutorials?

I tried using the one in the Ubuntu help site, but no luck...