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Protonmail is awesome, thanks. Never seen it, and I totally like auto expiration. In that manner its similar to Wickr or Signal. I plan to switch to locally ho

Protonmail is awesome, thanks. Never seen it, and I totally like auto expiration. In that manner its similar to Wickr or Signal. I plan to switch to locally hosted nextcloud over Google Drive. I am not interested ATM in full privacy - it doesn't sound practical at all, but I want to be aware of services that can provide temporary escape when I need it and of those very intrusive services such Google Search. I want to struck ballance between too much of the privacy which leads to every day usuability problems and the situation where I get bubbled and spammed with irrelevant stuff. > And never forget that your ISP can monitor everything you do, regardless of what services you use. No, it can't monitor SSL trafic. > Dont have too many extensions as it leads to an easy fingerprint I am sure only few of them will fingerprint me - for example only one of them - vimium - already reduces the surface quite a lot IMO. > Use an alternative non mainstream browser Chrome can be setup securelly and I can still use it for syncing data that I don't think should be hidden. Too much privacy is probably suspicious by itself on the other hand... > Get Ublock origin and PrivacyBadger Is there any problem using them both ? I already use Ublock.

savethefuture 10y ago
Your isp can still see the websites you visit, and using other analysis you can track what you're doing on the site. The point of the comment was to just be aware that you cant hide. (especially from govs). Chrome has lots of background services that ping home, just another thing to be aware of when you're trying to be anonymous. Using an alt browser can reduce the tracking, but yes obviously it creates a larger fingerprint, blending in plain sight is sometimes better than being too private. One of the best things I recommend though would be Privacy Badger from the EFF, and ublock origin. Those will block google analytics and TONS of other tracks, and it seems pretty common so it leaves a tiny fingerprint imo. Everything might take sometime to setup, but once you're in the flow and figure it all out, privacy can be seamless.

savethefuture 10y ago

Your isp can still see the websites you visit, and using other analysis you can track what you're doing on the site. The point of the comment was to just be aware that you cant hide. (especially from govs). Chrome has lots of background services that ping home, just another thing to be aware of when you're trying to be anonymous. Using an alt browser can reduce the tracking, but yes obviously it creates a larger fingerprint, blending in plain sight is sometimes better than being too private. One of the best things I recommend though would be Privacy Badger from the EFF, and ublock origin. Those will block google analytics and TONS of other tracks, and it seems pretty common so it leaves a tiny fingerprint imo. Everything might take sometime to setup, but once you're in the flow and figure it all out, privacy can be seamless.