Privacy Tips/Guide?? - Drop knowledge for retards who are tech illiterate

suwuper☆

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First post, not sure if this is the right place to post, low IQ user here.

I understand it's impossible to not be completely private, but I'm genuinely too stupid to mitigate tracking as much as possible. I've been using firefox and DDG for a while but have heard they're also dodgy as shit, and Linux is crinj because I can't siege with the bois without setting up a VM and I cbf doing that. I know what VPN's are but they also slow my shitty net down to a crawl.

If someone could please shed some light on how I can be as privacy friendly as possible while using my PC and kill the overwhelming paranoia I feel with each and every day, I would much appreciate it (Australia btw)
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
It's the sticky at the top of the board.
This is a forum, you can search for shit and also look at old messages so you don't get spoonfed like a quadruple amputee.
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The link on the stickied post, is dead. And while I appreciate the stuff in that post, I am more looking for someone to spoonfeed me like a quadruple amputee, given how that thread doesn't really go very in-depth about things, which is fine, just not what I'm looking for.

Boris Blank's glass eye said:
Use Tor.

Alternatively, get the fuck off the internet. Didn't the registration "guide" have some suggestions?
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Some yeah, I use cockmail and Thunderbird but still looking for more info.
 

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suwuper☆ said:
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read the thread
TL;DR the bare minimum is to get Brave Browser, a reliable adblocker on top of that, a location guard, and something to clear cookies from sites you don't regularly use. I'm not giving you links, I'm going to be as lazy as you are.
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
read the thread
TL;DR the bare minimum is to get Brave Browser, a reliable adblocker on top of that, a location guard, and something to clear cookies from sites you don't regularly use. I'm not giving you links, I'm going to be as lazy as you are.
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"a location guard, and something to clear cookies from sites you don't regularly use."
I genuinely don't understand this.
 
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WhoBusTank69 said:
Then just use Tor
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A little too slow for every day use, basically the thread that is stickied and you told me to read is useful and has good resources, but doesn't really offer any information (outside of the first post, which I read) that is easily digestible to someone who doesn't already understand the things they are talking about. This thread is intended to be so, hope that makes it clearer for you.
 
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The laziest option is to stop doing things on the internet. If you're not doing anything, there's nothing to worry about.
 
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One of the first things to do is updating the privacy options in Windows 10 because apparently everything you search in Windows-build-in-search-bar is send directly to Microsoft. Not only that but also what files you are opening (the names of the files are also known to Microsoft employees), what's being deleted and what's being created. In other words, Windows 10 s a spyware operating system which monitor everything you do unless you turn most of privacy options on.

Use VPN. Most of the time or at least when you are doing stuff you don't want to be tracked with.
 
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Apostolis said:
One of the first things to do is updating the privacy options in Windows 10 because apparently everything you search in Windows-build-in-search-bar is send directly to Microsoft. Not only that but also what files you are opening (the names of the files are also known to Microsoft employees), what's being deleted and what's being created. In other words, Windows 10 s a spyware operating system which monitor everything you do unless you turn most of privacy options on.
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You know, just like turning off location services on your phone stops tracking your location for Google/Apple..right? Or not saying the trigger word means Alexa/Google Home isn't constantly recording what you say, too.

It's not that I think doing what you suggest is a bad idea, it's just that I have a terrible time believing it's doing anything other than just straight up lying to you about it.
 
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Dont worry about all of these a-logs OP, Ill spoon feed you all you want. Here is what you do, you go buy a mac because you're too stupid for anything else. and then you go to a state where you can buy guns and get residence there. once you have residence you buy said gun. then you open your mouth and just suck start it.

or as @Ms. Cegination said
READ THE FUCKING GUIDES THEY ARE THERE FOR A REASON
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Apostolis said:
One of the first things to do is updating the privacy options in Windows 10 because apparently everything you search in Windows-build-in-search-bar is send directly to Microsoft. Not only that but also what files you are opening (the names of the files are also known to Microsoft employees), what's being deleted and what's being created. In other words, Windows 10 s a spyware operating system which monitor everything you do unless you turn most of privacy options on.

Use VPN. Most of the time or at least when you are doing stuff you don't want to be tracked with.
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Why would anyone ever use the Windows search function intentionally?
 
OP, you sound like a retarded 12 year old, but everyone was 12 once so I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt,
www.ivpn.net

Blogs

www.ivpn.net www.ivpn.net
www.ivpn.net

IVPN Privacy Guides

www.ivpn.net www.ivpn.net
Be prepared to do a lot of reading and recognize that privacy and security are a continuing process, like excercise. You're not trying to become anon overnight, you're trying to become less exposed than you were yesterday. If you don't internalize this mindset you're going to be overwhelmed and give up after a week of fucking with openvpn and iptables.

Apostolis said:
One of the first things to do is updating the privacy options in Windows 10 because apparently everything you search in Windows-build-in-search-bar is send directly to Microsoft. Not only that but also what files you are opening (the names of the files are also known to Microsoft employees), what's being deleted and what's being created. In other words, Windows 10 s a spyware operating system which monitor everything you do unless you turn most of privacy options on.

Use VPN. Most of the time or at least when you are doing stuff you don't want to be tracked with.
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Using a Windows newer than 7 is functionally identical to doing all your computing through facebook.
 
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Oh boy I get to shill this book again. I need to contact this dude to get a commission or something. I'm just going to link the website, the privacy book, 2nd edition, is as recent as 2020 and covers basics and advanced stuff. The website itself has some handy things, like a list of sites that sell your data you should email to opt out of which will make the more casual doxxers struggle if that's a concern.

IntelTechniques.com | OSINT & Privacy Services by Michael Bazzell | Open Source Intelligence

Open Source Intelligence OSINT Training by Michael Bazzell
inteltechniques.com inteltechniques.com

Good as a desk reference or a "DFE" guide to live by.
If you want to just have personal privacy and still use the internet, you've got a lot of reading and learning to do but that shouldn't be a problem and this is a process, nothing happens overnight.

ps check out the linux thread. windows is shit for privacy going forward and macOS, while not near as bad, is no where near as good as most linux distros.
 
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