Posted on 03/31/2017 7:39:38 PM PDT by markomalley
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.
Most of these may prohibit *websites* from tracking you but your ISP still knows where you go unless you use a VPN.
I use a VPN on my desk top computer. I can browse from IP addresses all around the world.
Get an offshore VPN.
Thank you for this!
Bttt.
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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.
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Exactly, a VPN services is the most important of all and he didn’t even mention it.
Also use Linux instead of Windows 10. Windows 10 is spyware.
Finally get a secure email account. Because they are data mining everything in your email account.
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what would be considered a secure email account?
Unless Tor's performance has recently improved, I don't think it is a practical option.
I use Startmail. An account costs about $60/year.
They don’t data-mine your account. I.e. they make their money from providing the email account and not from selling your private information.
You can also have multiple email alias.
Finally they have encrypted email services where you can send and control an email you send to someone. (i.e. they can respond to your email but not forward it).
Of course they can always take a picture of the email!
* 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.
I’ve been using Apple computers for years. My oldest son switched to Linux several years ago. He’s going to let me borrow one of his laptops that he’s got Linux on, and help me get acclimated to it. I’ll be in the market for a new computer at some point, and he suggested I give one of his a try to see if I’d be happy with the Linux format.
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