Privacy Checkup 2021

[Kosher Salt]

I am genuiley tech-retarded. VPN fools websites that I visit with a different IP, but to prevent my government from finding out where I go online, I'd need to use TOR, I guess, is that correct?
Does the VPN at least partially cover my ass in case Germany goes full Online Gestapo?

When it comes to state actors, I'd actually trust a VPN slightly more than Tor. With sufficient resources, it's theoretically possible to compromise the Tor network, but provided that you've selected a VPN that doesn't keep logs and which is based in a country where it's sufficiently insulated from legal threats it might receive from your government, you're going to be pretty well protected by a VPN.

More detail to be found here:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-tors-exit-nodes/

 

[biggest big boy]

When it comes to state actors, I'd actually trust a VPN slightly more than Tor. With sufficient resources, it's theoretically possible to compromise the Tor network, but provided that you've selected a VPN that doesn't keep logs and which is based in a country where it's sufficiently insulated from legal threats it might receive from your government, you're going to be pretty well protected by a VPN.

More detail to be found here:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-tors-exit-nodes/

you think this because you don't understand TOR

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Null doesn't bring this up, but you should prevent cookies from being saved.
Cookies are packets of information that can be saved on your browser which are read by the site that put them there as well as other sites.
Also use extensions that spoof your user agent

 

[themasterlurker]

The real redpill is to use someone else's username so they take the blame

edit: DO NOT look up my username

 

[hundredpercent]

When it comes to state actors, I'd actually trust a VPN slightly more than Tor. With sufficient resources, it's theoretically possible to compromise the Tor network, but provided that you've selected a VPN that doesn't keep logs and which is based in a country where it's sufficiently insulated from legal threats it might receive from your government, you're going to be pretty well protected by a VPN.

More detail to be found here:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-tors-exit-nodes/

Exit nodes are irrelevant if you're using SSL, which all serious websites, including this one, are.

Onions don't even use exit nodes. If you're using the onion service, you have way better protection than with any VPN.

 

[themasterlurker]

Null doesn't bring this up, but you should prevent cookies from being saved.

Too hard now, so many sites force you to use them now

 

[s0mbra]

I hear that Sombra on that there kiwifarms posts an awful lot to that paheal site

Go on, google it!

 

[Peasant]

Reddit has (or had) organized hate communities plotting violence against certain groups, Also with very little crack down until recently. Yet the 'internet police' are looking here for criminality. What a laugh. There isn't one post on this site that advocates violence towards any specific group. People just come here and trash talk and nothing more.

The difference is that Kiwi Farms isn't enemy territory. Would you care more about catching the fish swimming free, or those who are already in the trap?

 

[Mr. Manchester]

I, Jerry R Goldberg, of the small down of Gays Illinois (home of the historic two story outhouse and Hitler's bicycle) whose birthday is today endorse these measures and the use of the Brave Browser. Thank you for supporting my weight loss journey, Kiwi Farms.

In all seriousness I don't even do the ad stuff but I just like the way it functions, it's Chrome with a built in ad block that isn't tied to google.

 

[mitzi]

Is watching what I say on this website a good way to not get doxxed or am I just always susceptible to some fucker exposing me?

 

[gaystoner]

I should be better about this

 

[brooky]

Is posting from a Chrome browser on your personal non-work non-school phone, using your data network, as "safe" as posting from a home computer? Or should we also be using Brave or some kind of mobile VPN?

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

The real redpill is to use someone else's username so they take the blame

I’ve sometimes used other peoples avatars from other sites.

 

[General Tug Boat]

It takes a forum like this to actually bring up the real issue of how loose people are with their personal information. There is indeed a large lack of education of how to maintain levels of protection. I always hear the whole perverbal, "no one gives a fuck, what are they going to do to me?" When the topic of online anonymity gets brought up in the normie circles. Well considering most individuals these days are getting their lives and careers completely sent to oblivion, because of an out of line Tweet. Just demonstrates the cyclical nature of the self filling prophecy known as cancel culture.

Until people begin using these alternatives as means of despencing conversation and not having to link it to their personal life constantly.
Then there maybe a level of genuine discourse for the momentum of echo chamber commentary that has polluted our culture with over the last decade. Its funny coming from the era when before big tech took over the world, we spoke about internet privacy, and that type of thing when I was a wee lad.

If you could use Adblock then a VPN should be a walk in the park. If there is a preference of a VPN on the forum, what does the userbase like to use?

I only ask because since I discovered Brave through the forum, that is all I pretty much use, and anything I do web development on. I test my sites in that browser as well when I pass through my testing regime. Tor extension is nice, and is cool they managed to integrate Tor into the browser. I find that resource management, as well run times are elegant on that browser. It crashes significantly less I came to find as well. The crypto wallet is pretty cool too.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

I sell VIRGINITY SOAP 2000 I can't be doxxed cus VIRGINITY SOAP 2000 protects me from those damn alt right transphobes

 

[Letora]

I continued using LastPass despite them asking for money to use it on both desktop and mobile now, because I really like their product and have used it successfully on multiple devices for years. There's that whole line: "when the product is free, you're the product." I'm not sure how they were keeping things going without charging for so long. Maybe they have a lot of business/enterprise users?

I understand people getting upset by a product like this charging after being free for a long time, but I think it's not unreasonable for people to want to get paid for continuing to develop a product which runs well. I think the multi-device premium is also a reasonable change compared to other potential limitations they could have gone with.

I heard LastPass is terrible as there are trackers in it.

You are correct, it does have trackers in it:

Seven trackers embedded in LastPass password manager app

The discovery of the embedded trackers was initially made in an analysis of the LastPass Android app by Exodus, which was picked up by German security researcher Mike Kuketz who blogged about it in German. Of the seven trackers, four originated from Google and are used for both analytics and crash reporting. The remaining three trackers come from AppsFlyer, MixPanel and Segment. According to The Register, the last of these is of use to marketing teams as it has the capability to profile cross-platform user activity.

A LastPass spokesperson told the publication that "these trackers collect limited aggregated statistical data about how you use LastPass which is used to help us improve and optimize the product."

Guess I'm migrating to Bitwarden. That was quite an easy export/import process, but damn if I didn't waste a discounted $28ish dollars on a year of LastPass Premium .

Also Private Internet Access is my favorite VPN. NordVPN got hacked, if anyone hasn't seen that. I wouldn't use them.

 

[IsaacShraeder]

Just a small thing:
VPNs are not a cure-all. Sure, you can relocate your IP to some other country, but if you look up "Best Corn Market in [your area]" or anything else specific to your location, it'll still be obvious where you really are.

 

[pedoguyguykrai]

guys I'm going to doxx myself
I am really a dog just shitposting on the internet, while my owner is a way
no one knows your a dog on the internet.

 

[Not Really Here]

Solid use of the @ everyone 10/10 would click again.

 

[I am vomit]

This thread reminded me that it's not standard to use new names and emails for different sites. It's pretty good to know, if you've been pwned, stop using that information or you can probably pretty easily get 'hacked'. That shit stays on lists and people can easily pull up your email and known passwords.