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Whilst single hop proxies are great at stopping IP level tracking, they are just that: single hop. They can be trivially torn apart to uncover the real person b
by WallyFunk 4y ago
Whilst single hop proxies are great at stopping IP level tracking, they are just that: single hop. They can be trivially torn apart to uncover the real person behind it, much like a VPN.
Multi hop makes it more difficult. You could chain a bunch of proxies together to make trivial correlation attacks much harder, just like Tor does.
As for Apple's private relay: it's a cute idea, but Apple has other telemetry endpoints it can use to see what you're doing on a device. Whilst private relay does the job, you are surveilled in other ways by Apple, so it's really a marketing ploy and 'privacy washing' on the part of Apple.
Then there's extreme steps you can take like booting a Whonix workstation coupled with a gateway if your threat model requires it and you really don't want to be decloaked.
Most are happy buying a few SOCKS5 proxies and calling it a day. You can mess with AD tech by regularly changing your IP and surfing in isolated sessions to stop cookies correlating your old IP with your new IP.
- paulpauper 4y agoMulti hop makes it more difficult. You could chain a bunch of proxies together to make trivial correlation attacks much harder, just like Tor does. That's fine if you don't mind sites either not loading, loading reallly slow, or tons of captchas and loss of functionality. Virtual desktops with AWS via disposable credit card is pretty good, imho.
- gruez 4y ago>Virtual desktops with AWS via disposable credit card is pretty good, imho. there's zero chance that you can create an AWS account with disposable credit cards, presumably for fraud/spam related reasons. Even many VPS providers will reject prepaid cards for the same reason.
- paulpauper 4y agowho said anything about fraud/spam
- gruez 4y agoYou misread my comment. I'm simply pointing out that: 1. you can't create aws accounts with prepaid cards 2. the reason why is that aws doesn't accept prepaid cards, because people use them for fraud/spam and they want to stop them.
- doubleorseven 4y agoAWS is the only provider who accepts prepaid cards and your name doesn't even have to be on the card. Just make sure you know the card's billing address.
- ignoramous 4y ago> As for Apple's private relay: it's a cute idea, but Apple has other telemetry endpoints it can use to see what you're doing on a device. For Apple, it is a privacy breach only if its 3p services tracking users on iDevices. 1p is perfectly fine. 2p is kind of okay.