Topic: [Tips and Information] Privacy and How to Stay Anonymous Online - page 2. (Read 870 times)

Oh sure. I had assumed he was already running a VPN since he had mentioned it further up in his comment, which would have encrypted his data against that kind of attack already. But yeah, I take your point.

Yeah, you're right but apps will ask you first if you want to allow them to use your camera, file and etc... or not. Some apps can be able to use without allowing them but some are not.



You can always disable them in settings if you doubt someone controlling your SmartPhone with some apps.
I always disable them to make sure my phone files and front camera safe and use a fake GPS app(I use this before in Pokemo GO to make a fake location)
Or use your Smartphone offline and never connect it to the internet.


That is why I recommend making a custom socks5 IP than VPN to make sure no one tracking your activity. Tor is a good option they masking your wan IP 3x to 5x but the browsing activity is slow and javascript is disabled. It is good only if you actually hiding your IP and access only supported websites because most websites block tor browsers from accessing the site.
So if you want to browse look normally my list is a great tool to browse anonymously I don't compare them with tor and I always have a problem using TOR when making accounts with bing ads before they always detected that I'm using TOR so I stop using them.

Spending more time to find the same - a little misunderstanding we got here. I don't want to google give me the results i know he will give, because of my search history. Sometimes anonymous browser gives broader search and that's what i'm looking for, to know the topic i search for better.

Wrong. With HTTPS, passive attack (e.g, ISP and anyone who's on your network) won't able to see what data you send to a server.

All they can get is metadata (IP destination, DNS request, packet size, etc.)

Opera's free VPN, like all VPNs, is a poor choice. It's not even really a VPN, just a proxy. They collect all your traffic and data, keep logs, and use it to serve you targeted ads: https://www.opera.com/privacy. Have a read of this: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/blog/operas-baked-in-vpn-is-not-a-good-solution-for-your-privacy/

There is no such thing as a truly free VPN. If it is free, then you are the product. As I said above, companies which provide free VPNs are making there money from selling your data, and this makes you less private, not more.

Why would you use a Tor plug-in in a browser with poor security which lies about being privacy focused, when you could just cut out the middle-man and use the Tor browser?

With regards to VPN use, I would like to mention Opera Browser which offers a free and user friendly way to connect through VPN. But if we want to use varied VPN servers, then Avast Secure Line VPN would do the trick but it is on a paid subscription.

With regards to TOR use, Brave Browser has also a built in feature that would allow us to browse via TOR.

There's some good info in your post OP, but there's also a few mistakes which you should edit. Browsing in incognito mode does nothing to protect your privacy, as other users have noted. You shouldn't just use anonymous emails, but you should use separate email addresses for separate purposes, and use encrypted and privacy-respecting email providers such as ProtonMail. DuckDuckGo is a search engine, not a proxy or a VPN, and so does nothing to hide your IP. Free VPNs are poor recommendations since the companies are making their money from your data - they make you less private, not more.

If you are going to use a VPN, then you should pay for a good one. Look here (https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison) and here (https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/).

DDG will return results in a fraction of a second, just like Google. My VPN reduces my internet speeds by around 2%, so it isn't noticeable in any way.

Most recent comparisons now put Firefox as faster and less resource intensive than Google Chrome, with all the added benefits of increased security and privacy. Google Chrome is spyware.

HTTPS Everywhere. But this is a security improvement - it does nothing for your privacy.

Everything you've listed still isn't enough to make you anonymous online. Your VPN provider can still see all your traffic and your real IP. If you really want anonymity, then you need to be looking at Tor.

DNS leak could also result in privacy compromising and not every VPN service provider prevent it.  To be on safe side direct you routers to DNS servers that block DNS leak, CloudFlare DNS is known to be the best one of them. https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ may help to check whether you are vulnerable or not.

Incognito mode helps you to keep your browsing private from other users of the same device - it doesn't help much against sites, internet service providers, government, etc. Cookies is just one tool that those parties use against you, and they can easily track you without it. You've covered topics like VPN and ToR, but there's another set of tools that increases privacy - browser extensions. Extensions like Canvas Blocker, Privacy Badger, NoScript help you disable many of the tracking done by websites.

Reduced internet speed and some sites restricted access via tor browser,other than this no cons with using TOR browser.But we have to think that we really need TOR for doing certain things like login to your own social media account or going to watch online videos.

I have tried to try a few things so that the privacy of my online activities remains anonymous, some say using VPN but also giving a warning not to use VPN when opening social media or all kinds of website related to crypto accounts. Currently I use TOR Browser and Duckduckgo search enginee for my online activities (but not using it for exchange account and social media), I still learning about this, what is the disadvantage using TOR?

Not only our location,our cameras,gallery,file manager and everything can be controlled by someone remotely because we gave them the access to do while installing an app whether its from app market or private sites,so we are not having any privacy as we think.

There is no problem in comment something relevant in a thread. You will not be tagged.

Rules exists to prevent abuse, not to change legit user's behaviour.

If you were commenting something useless in a deal useless megathread it would be necroposting.

Anyway, too much poff topic already. But I think this post was necessary.

On topic: I just bumped it,you can comment now without fear

You also made a well detailed thread and I love it, and I merited it also Would have dropped a comment but it would be tagged for necroposting.
Let's not go off-topic here.

VPN is not enough to make your PC anonymous. They actually have logs for your traffic so you need extra tools to make your browsing anonymous.
Most of the VPN right now can easily be detected if you are using a VPN or not so if you want to protect your self from tracking and retrieving your PC information you need to use extra tools just like what I use below.

- WebRTC
- UserAgent Spoofer
- Mac Changer
- Use VPN with residential IP or create Socks IPs.
- Any blocker like ads blocker, trace or track blocker
- HTTP everywhere.
- enable "Do not track" under browser settings.
- Use VPS and do all of your activity there with the tools above.

If you have these tools even you are browsing to any search engine mention above you are safe.

I don't agree on using proxies it always depends on what proxies you use if you are using free proxies you will experience drop on speed but if you are using dedicatd high quality proxy your browsing activity is fine.

For Exchanges if you are going to trade and they have terms about the IP better don't use VPN but most of the exchanges right now requires KYC so even with or without VPN is fine.

SmartPhone is a different case since it is our personal thing and use it for everyday life smartphone has feature to trace the location of the phone powered by Google. But you can still become anonymous with SmartPhone just disable any tracking apps like FindMyIphone or FindMyDevices for android.

As long as they function within the ambits of the privacy policy, it wouldn't be a problem. User information can be used for analytics purposes and also to track user behavior. But left unchecked this websites and social medias can use such information to adverse effect. The information is our of youe hands, and a leak, or deliberate breach could lead to the spread of such data among the wrong hands.
I would much rather safety than efficiency.

I made a Topic similar to yours a few time ago
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/lets-talk-about-privacy-3210982

Your topic is very complete, I would just add browser recommendations (Firefox all the way imo) and its add-ons.

Take a look at mine, you will like it

I made another one specially for Firefox

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5156114.0;all

So which got more efficiency here,google knew what you want but while browsing anonymous browsers we may have to spend more time for finding the same,I am not encourage their spying behaviour on every user but at least it won't be a problem for most people.
Even on my fast 4G network the browsing speed on TOR is in KB/s so there is huge difference in speed,so we have to choose fiber optic connections for better speed but its not available for everyone.

Not everyone will choose to pay for their privacy,they will find something free but will end up messing the things.

The speed decreases depending on the type of network carrier you use for browsing. And that's not even a problem because it's just like a little price you pay for your privacy.

Nord VPN offers dedicated IP to its premium users at a cheap price, I don't think that's a problem.

Well, but maybe I don't want to Google spy me all the time, so I'm not using it daily. When it comes to efficiency of web browser - it's true, most probably anonymous browsers won't be as fast as those spying ones, but there isn't a massive difference between their efficiency. Also - Google browser adjusts it's results to your previous searches, it bases on a profile of you as a user, so the results of searching will be repetitive and not as wide as in anonymous browser.