What are the best ways to maximize privacy? In terms of search engines, browsers, image and video hosts, ISP's, VPN's?
I know its practically impossible to be anonymous, but what measures can I take to limit my data traffic?
What are the best ways to maximize privacy? In terms of search engines, browsers, image and video hosts, ISP's, VPN's?
I know its practically impossible to be anonymous, but what measures can I take to limit my data traffic?
DNT is a naughty scam - literally the only thing it does is allow for greater fingerprinting because there is now an extra piece of trinary information in the HTTP headers (DNT 0 / 1 / absent). My guess is that absent would give the greatest anonymity / similarity with other clients.
It's not really a scam, it's good intentions turned bad. The companies which already wouldn't track you won't and the others ignore DNT.
Search engine - https://searx.me/ is good.
Browser - GNU IceCat. It comes with a few extensions which are actually a bit over-zealous; I remove LibreJS (and any associated exception extensions) and use NoScript and uBlock Origin instead (don't use AdBlock Plus, nor Ghostery).
Media hosts - https://kek.gg/ and https://catbox.moe/ are good.
VPN - unfortunately the only one I would trust is my own, or at least one on a rented VPS (requires learning to set up, though I'll say I like OpenVPN as a deployment).
When browsing, always prefer HTTPS / don't open links which are plain unsecured HTTP unless it's trivial and you really need to.
Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I remember hearing about all these different tools but I never saved the names long enough to actually switch over. Which version of IceCat do you recommend?
On Linux, the latest / 52.6.0
On Windows, the most recent build is 38.8.0 (get icecat-38.8.0.en-US.win32.zip).
For Android, see IceCat Mobile.
Are they all sealed with the blood sacrament?!
It depends how autistic you want to get. There are entire OSs packaged with software and applications revolving around security. The main issue is usability/convenience vs privacy, I use different browsers, OSs etc. for different purposes.
This may interest you. Check out AirVPN or NordVPN.
Yes this is interesting. Thanks for the links.
I use uBO and I've DNT, but it's not clear if the latter really improves tracking.