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Different account names for everything. I never use my real name and usually browse over Tor or with a VPN. If I watch a video it’s after I liberated it with yt
by steponlego 4y ago
Different account names for everything. I never use my real name and usually browse over Tor or with a VPN. If I watch a video it’s after I liberated it with yt-dlp. Reset my home Internet connection to get a different IP daily. I long ago deleted all my posts to Reddit and Facebook. I also ditched my gmail I had for over 20 years, I don’t trust those weasels.
- blisterpeanuts 4y agoThese are very good suggestions. Do you use a smartphone? I was wondering if calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower.
- expertentipp 4y ago> calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower. Not if using whatsapp/messenger for calling over wifi and the probability that the other person has an app capable of calling over wifi different than whatsapp/messenger is rather low.
- blisterpeanuts 4y agoMy Samsung with T-Mobile is capable of connecting to cellular networks via wifi, which is useful in my neighborhood where T-mo is a weaker signal.
- steponlego 4y agoI have never owned a cell phone. My Librem 5 is “coming soon” LOL!
- 72deluxe 4y agoVoWiFi for LTE is what carriers (in the UK at least) try to encourage if you have poor signal at home. It still relies on your SIM being in the phone and actually makes a L2TP or SIP connection through to the carrier's server. I know because I disabled all these NAT passthroughs on my router and VoWiFi didn't work at all for me on EE with an Android phone (but did for my wife with her iPhone on Virgin). So you can still be tracked since the connection to the carrier's server requires an identity - it won't carry calls for just anybody!
- mfcl 4y agoIs the CIA after you?
- expertentipp 4y agothese are very "low hanging fruit" measures TBH
- steponlego 4y agoSnowden leaks proved they’re after everybody.
- scarface74 4y agoAnd if you fly, drive, use credit cards, use cellphones, etc the government already knows enough about you.
- steponlego 4y agoHeh, I see people like you pop up every time there's a discussion about privacy online. My guess is you work for the US government or a contractor, the messaging is always the same: "Don't bother trying for more privacy." But it's a lame, weak gambit. If the collective you weren't terrified of privacy you wouldn't try this every time there's a discussion about privacy online.
- scarface74 4y agoWhere I work is not hard to find from my posting history on HN and under my same user name on Reddit. It’s a company I know you have heard of Where’s the lie in my statement? Do you fly? Use credit cards? Use a cell phone? Have a bank account? Ever applied for credit? Go to a doctor? I’ve worked with both payment processors and integrated with EMR/EHR systems. I’m well aware of the information captured. No one cares about your Reddit history.
- steponlego 4y ago
- lukeasch21 4y agoMinor nitpick, but why are you adamant that you've had your Gmail for "over 20 years"? Gmail was made public in 2004.
- steponlego 4y agoDid it exist before 2004? I bet you know!
- lukeasch21 4y agoWouldn't that imply that you were an employee at Google sometime between 2002-2004? :P Unless I'm not getting the full picture (I was not old enough to be fully aware of Gmail's existence in 2004)
- steponlego 4y ago2001? Could be the '90s really...
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoGmail was invitation only for a solid, what, year or two? But if you were remotely in IT, you could get an invite. I did, and I was peanuts.
- 2fast4you 4y agoDo you really get a new IP every day? Every ISP I’ve had usually gives me the same IP after a restart
- steponlego 4y agoYou should change the MAC address of your router. That'll trigger the cable or fiber modem to give you a new IP address usually.
- miked85 4y agoFor me at least, that means calling support and giving them the new MAC address.
- xp84 4y agoAt least in some systems, assuming you have a separate modem device and router, only the modem is involved in the authentication/billing which is where they care about the modem's MAC to identify you. If your router's MAC changes, DHCP would issue it a new IP. My modest understanding is that the modem is operating at a lower layer of the networking stack, so the DHCP server involved in actually issuing you an IP, higher up in the stack, doesn't need to worry about identifying you -- it's happy to give anybody an IP because it knows that if it can see you, the modem-level authentication has confirmed you're someone who is paying your Internet bill. I used to run an open source router a long time ago, which made changing your router WAN MAC something you could easily script.
- zamnos 4y agoWho's your ISP? That would make me worried. https://xkcd.com/463/ https://xkcd.com/463/
- miked85 4y agoCox. At least in the past when I upgraded a modem, it required me calling support to give them the MAC address.
- chirau 4y agoSounds like a lot of effort for very minimal gains. Is there anything that important about you that you have to go these extremes? And you don't have a cellphone? Kudos to you but I, for one, do not envy you.
- MattDemers 4y agoA reminder that if you pay for ProtonMail, you get a free SimpleLogin account to go with it.