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Is there anything the average user can do to protect their data/privacy from their ISP?
by j2bax 10y ago
Is there anything the average user can do to protect their data/privacy from their ISP?
- adrianN 10y agoRun everything over an encrypted channel.
- 0xcafecafe 10y agovpn?
- somebehemoth 10y agoVPN is a solution but requires trust in VPN provider. OpenVPN on a VPS can help. Also, consider DNS traffic can leak information, but I've not read of a fool proof way to fully protect DNS queries.
- M_Grey 10y agoGood VPNs have DNS leak protection now, and frankly, I recommend avoiding one that doesn't.
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- edraferi 10y agoI use a VPN, but I have to turn it on for each device. Is there a good way to set up my router to automatically push all traffic through a VPN? I'd probably need to make exceptions for stuff like video traffic.
- barryfandango 10y agoYou can install Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) on a compatible router. It has a bunch of options for routing all/some/groups of devices through various VPN's. This might be a feature in newer stock router firmware too.
- M_Grey 10y agoEncrypted VPN that doesn't keep records (I like NordVPN, but have had good experiences with others like IPV and PIA), uMatrix, uBlock Origin, and don't forget to turn on your user agent spoofing options.
- davidiach 10y agoI'm afraid that the problem is bigger than that, most people have a number of devices that connect to the internet, not all of which work with VPN.
- M_Grey 10y agoThat's where a decent router that can support your VPN comes in. Look, I grant you this is not perfect, and there is no perfect enduser solution, but if you want to stop the bleeding, that's how.
- eric_h 10y agoI second NordVPN, plus their interface is adorable.
- maccam912 10y agoYes VPN is a good answer here, but another idea to make the data they collect and sell less useful would be something like https://github.com/WhiteBeachStudios/cyberflare https://github.com/WhiteBeachStudios/cyberflare to hide your real usage habits among a bunch of artificially generated traffic.
- somebehemoth 10y agoCyberFlare looks interesting, thank you for sharing. If anyone knows of similar tools or a guide on using CyberFlare I would greatly appreciate the information.
- snowpanda 10y agoHow would one use cyberflare? Any easier tools?
- mhaymo 10y agoUse Tor.
- thomnottom 10y agoStart with not using their DNS servers (OpenDNS https://www.opendns.com https://www.opendns.com) Install HTTPS Everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) Install uBlock Origin (Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/.../ublock-origin https://chrome.google.com/.../ublock-origin / Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/ublock-origin/)
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoConcur with your recommendations. Would throw some caution on the OpenDNS recommendation, though. They're U.S. based and owned by Cisco. Depending on your threat model, this may or may not be desirable.
- thomnottom 10y agoI debated about the recommendation, but went with the simplest one to start.
- fastest963 10y agoJust because you're not using their DNS servers doesn't mean they still don't see the DNS requests as its sent through their pipes and log them.
- thomnottom 10y agoCorrect, but it is a start.