For personal data privacy, Dr.Epstein wrote this... Seven Simple Steps Toward Online Privacy In a nutshell... 1) Junk GMail. He uses ProtonMail.com because of its Swiss privacy laws 2) Switch Search Engines. Google’s search engine is the best, but is also the most aggressive spying tool ever invented. He uses http://StartPage.com because they don't track you. 3) Kill Chrome. he uses http://Firefox.com 4) Axe Android. he recommends Apple, Microsoft or Blackberry 5) Heave Home. Google Home is recording everything in your home and sending it back to headquarters. 6) Clear Cache and Cookies regularly, and he shows you how 7) Pick a Proxy or VPN. He likes http://PrivateInternetAccess.com he also recommends using http://DNSLeakTest.com or http://BrowserLeaks.com first to test your security
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That is a good list. A couple fyi’s:
Firefox no longer supports javascript. Two workarounds: 1. Install earlier version of firefox, use just for those pages that need it. Unfortunately, means closing all tabs, closing current FF, launching older version. Or 2. Use chrome just for those pages, in another window. Set chrome to max privacy, disable javascript as default, enable one at a time only for pages needed. Yeah, PITA.
Startpage is great. Uses google websearch, but annonamizes you.
+1 on PIA VPN. It keeps zero logs, and assigns same IP’s to multiple annonymous users simulteneously. Plausable deniability. However, some websites block because so many hits from same IP’s = they think it’s spammers or DOS attack. FR was blocking PIA IP’s from US for a year+. So just pick server from, say, Japan to use.
Set Firefox settings to clear everything on exit. Also, only allow 3rd party cookies from originating site. Block all others.
Use multiple emails. Compartmentalize. I have over 8.
Use firewall router between cable modem and computer. Set router to act as dns server, to assign IP’s in your home LAN. (Don’t let cable modem do it)
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