"Privacy" on the Internet

[JAvEX]

Here's what I use:

....

1. Always on VPN
Private Internet Access - A zero log VPN (I use on my phone, PC, and tablet)

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

2. Firefox extensions
Adblock Plus - with EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy's Annoyance List

https://adblockplus.org/

https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/

https://www.fanboy.co.nz/

Disconnect - Block trackers (possibly redundant with EasyPrivacy)

https://disconnect.me/

NoScript - Block javascript by default

https://noscript.net/

HTTPS Everywhere - Always request https

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

FlashBlock - Prevent flash from autoloading (redundant with NoScript)

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Note: I don't have Java or Silverlight Plugins.


3. Search engine
Startpage - Search Google anonymously

https://startpage.com/

4. Other
Windows Firewall Control - Makes configuring it simple

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

Microsoft Security Essentials - for the sake of having an AV/AS

https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download

KeyScrambler - for paranoia even though I never run anything I don't trust

https://www.qfxsoftware.com/

5. Social networks
I deleted my Facebook two and a half years ago. I never had twitter or anything else. My next step is to get rid of Gmail which I plan to do as soon as Startmail launches (an upcoming private email service from Startpage).

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Even with all this I'm probably still tracked, but I'm trying. At the moment I'm actually using (evil) Chrome since RH gives a 403 error in Firefox probably due to one of my about:config settings.

What do you guys use to try to have privacy online?

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Having Adblock and Noscript makes Disconnect and Flashblock pretty pointless? I use Adblock, Noscript and HTTPS Everywhere myself.

Also rifk at using Microsoft Security Essentials and Firewall, if you need security suite I recommend Comodo Internet Security since it's been proven to be best. It has Stealth Ports configuration etc. good shit. and it's behaviour controller (HIPS) actually does good work at checking what programs do and gives you possibility to allow/block the whole program or just certain features. When it's tweaked to full it can be pain in the ass tho to keep answering to those pop-ups.

I dont use any antivirus myself since they are pointless waste of system resources and just lead to million false positives, if I have doubt of something I use PE Explorer / IDA to check something and if I'm still in doubt I just run it in virtualized enviroment.

If you want browser without annoying tracking etc. gayfeatures, use Comodo Dragon, it's based on Chrome or if you're a Firefox -fan use Comodo Icedragon, it's based on Firefox. They're both awesome browsers and RH works fine with them.

http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/icedragon-browser.php

http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Also if you're a paranoid of your passwords, I recommend Keepass 2, password generator, in-memory protection, database with keyfile, AES-256, keyfile generated with random input, plugins for Opera, Chrome and Firefox for auto-fill / generate at registration forms. I have used it for 2 years and I will never get back to having passwords at plain .txt file like I used to lol.

[Atex]

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I use my real name online, dont use proxies or vpns.. i run stuff i find cool or have a cool name like someone offered me steam game generator and i downloaded it and it didnt work but its fine it didnt break my pc.. my steam acc gets stoled 6 times a month.. i can barely play
also people spam my email with hentai porn

[kaldewej]

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Nice guide but as mencore said NoScript and FlashBlock running at the same time makes no sens. NoScript blocks flash applications.

[JAvEX]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

@mencore:
I forgot NoScript blocked flash as well. I think I disabled that feature because it took two clicks to enable flash, however I just checked now and it's the same as Flashblock (single click). Maybe it was an old version, or I'm nuts, either way.

As for disconnect + easyprivacy being redundant... I wondered that myself, but I like seeing how many trackers are on any page. I'll update my post though explaining the redundancies.

I haven't had a virus since I was running Windows 98 SE in 1999. I think I had spyware from Napster shortly after too. I'm fine with stock firewall, mse, and my router.

As for Comodo IceDragon Browser, I'm going to try it out. Oh and I definitely need a password manager, I always make up these rediculous passwords and just expect to remember them. I hadn't visited RH in a while, it took over a day of trial and error to figure out my password. The forgot password thing never actually sent me the email to reset my password. So I will check out Keepass for sure.

[kaldewej]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Also i would rather use another VPN Provider because according to this site the company is locatated in the USA and London.
#PRISM :lmao:

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

@mencore:
I forgot NoScript blocked flash as well. I think I disabled that feature because it took two clicks to enable flash, however I just checked now and it's the same as Flashblock (single click). Maybe it was an old version, or I'm nuts, either way.

As for disconnect + easyprivacy being redundant... I wondered that myself, but I like seeing how many trackers are on any page. I'll update my post though explaining the redundancies.

I haven't had a virus since I was running Windows 98 SE in 1999. I think I had spyware from Napster shortly after too. I'm fine with stock firewall, mse, and my router.

As for Comodo IceDragon Browser, I'm going to try it out. Oh and I definitely need a password manager, I always make up these rediculous passwords and just expect to remember them. I hadn't visited RH in a while, it took over a day of trial and error to figure out my password. The forgot password thing never actually sent me the email to reset my password. So I will check out Keepass for sure.

Oh I think RH's password reset is fucked at least if you're on Hotmail. Yeah Keepass made my life with good passwords so much easier, I have ~120 passwords stored into it at the moment and everyone of them is different, I couldn't remember them. Only thing is that Keepass (thank God) doesn't have any cloud-storage etc. crap so it's good to keep backups of database and keyfile frequently. Thanks to broken HDD I lost one database and it was pain in the ass to get those passwords back by restoring them to my e-mail. If you have some questions of Keepass, PM me or talk to me on IRC, I'm basically on all cheeting-related channels on Rizon.

[wav]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Accept nothing less than RSA 2048.

[LoupBlanc]

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https://airvpn.org/ is nice 'cause you can pay with bitcoin ...
Pretty cheap if you buy 3 months and it's 95% as fast as original connection. (important for me because i use vpn's to bypass isp+cogent throttle of video streaming from USA to france :/ )

[JAvEX]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Also i would rather use another VPN Provider because according to this site the company is locatated in the USA and London.
#PRISM :lmao:

Private Internet Access is known as a secure anonymous VPN. They don't log activity and they use shared IPs. Meaning they have nothing to give the NSA. They also accept payment by Bitcoin. And I get 100% of my bandwidth, I only have a slightly increase ping.

It's also one of LifeHacker's top five: http://lifehacker.com/5935863/five-b...vice-providers

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Private Internet Access is known as a secure anonymous VPN. They don't log activity and they use shared IPs. Meaning they have nothing to give the NSA. They also accept payment by Bitcoin. And I get 100% of my bandwidth, I only have a slightly increase ping.

It's also one of LifeHacker's top five: http://lifehacker.com/5935863/five-b...vice-providers

PIA is Murikan company tho so I wouldn't give much trust over them not turning you into feds in a heartbeat if such would be required. If I'm not mistaken some Murican laws require those logs to be kept for a certain time, I'm not too sure about this tho. However keeping logs of every customer and everything they do with their connection is pretty unrealistic so... idk, I think I might go with this PIA anyway, that price is great and I've been looking for some VPN service for ages.

[lolimsoasd]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

what would you be tracked for?

you do illegal stuffs?

better install freeBSD if you need to be THAT anonymous

[wav]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

what would you be tracked for?

you do illegal stuffs?

better install freeBSD if you need to be THAT anonymous

Exactly. What good is having a VPN if you're using Windows. Furthermore, what good is using an open source OS if the hardware you're on maybe compromised by the Government? Yes you can block packets, but that's not a real solution.

[JAvEX]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

I've used a few distributions of Linux, even as my main OS for several months... however there has always been at least one major driver issue. Since I built my most recent computer this time last year, I stuck with Windows for compatibility and stability. ([email protected],16GB@2400mhz,gtx690,240gb ssd,1tb hdd, 27"@2560x1440)

In all likelihood, nothing will arise even if everything I do is tracked. I more don't like the idea of companies and governments building profiles. I think what set me off was when I noticed my Google results being tailored to my previous searches. And yes I do minor illegal downloading (movies, and tv for the most part), the same as most people. But I'm an avid reader, and I tend to find conspiracies and illegal activities rather interesting. So a profile based around that may not be good.

I used to be very social, loud and obnoxious, but I've grown out of that. Now I enjoy my privacy, and really only go out when the fella's harass me enough, or when the miss's has one of her episodes. I guess the same attitude has transferred to my computing.

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

what would you be tracked for?

you do illegal stuffs?

better install freeBSD if you need to be THAT anonymous

Of course I commit crimes. It's in my nature, in my genes. Yeah sure I could run Tails-distro from USB all day and enjoy my 2 kb/s download speeds and 2 minutes web-page loading speeds.

Exactly. What good is having a VPN if you're using Windows. Furthermore, what good is using an open source OS if the hardware you're on maybe compromised by the Government? Yes you can block packets, but that's not a real solution.

I'm not that much of a tinfoil hat that I would give such idea even a smallest thought, tho I dont know what to think about with all the Prism etc. crap lately
However encrypting internet traffic, getting dynamic IP etc. comes to mind.

Yeah, I would use Linux on my desktop but sadly every single fucking distro freezes on me. This does not happen on any of my laptops and I know it's not HDD/RAM -fault so I'm pretty much clueless what causes it.
I've tried Ubuntu 10.04 - 12-10, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, Mint different versions with different desktops, tried x86 and x64 -versions, all freeze randomly in Virtualbox, Live CD from USB and installed on HDD. Linuxes are unusable in my system, it might be that it's related to my GPU but I have tried various drivers too and it doesn't change it.

[ᵁᴻᴷᴺᴼᵂᴻ]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

make visual studio works on debian and i return (yep in windows just for that).
for privacy rather than rent vpn service rent some vps anonymously (very cheap one) & ssh&tunnels&or proxy, else,
at least you know what log are kept and by whom.
tho online privacy, whatever you do, dont bet on it.

and btw to reply to original question, firefox 64 & these addons:


and cuz im lazy, putty & make tunnels & if more than lazy proxy switch & proxy took here:

http://proxy.speedtest.at/proxybyPerformance.php?offset=0

[Desmond]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

I've got tails on a usb I use for my laptop with abit the tor going works pretty well

Get myself a wifi usb with good connection should sort me out

I got a win7 ultimate running but it's like 4+years old now it has seen it's day.

[wav]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

http://luxsci.com/blog/256-bit-aes-encryption-for-ssl-and-tls-maximal-security.html

[JAvEX]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Excuse my gravedigging :x.

I've actually switched to Ubuntu, and as previously predicted, I have a driver issue. I can't get Nvidia proprietary drivers working. The default "Nouveau" driver works fine however (for everything but gaming).

http://www.anonmgur.com/up/73814617b3d97ee6e24b7908770ac768.png

I have also added 3 new extensions to Firefox:

RequestPolicy - control cross site requests

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

Self-Destructing Cookies - delete site specific cookies after closing tab

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/

Smart Referer - send only same domain referer

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/smart-referer/

I have also reconfigured Firefox a little bit to avoid browser finger printing, like setting my user agent to Windows as it has the largest userbase.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[[myg0t]BaDaZZ]

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hi javhax, hows life?

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

btw

I would like to add that Spotflux might offer better VPN experience if you can't / wont buy commercial VPN.

There's also few problems with these alternatives, I dont know about DuckDuckGo but all the search engines I have tried other than Google are shit.

Firefox and Opera have their own issues compared to Chrome, at least for me they've felt fucking slow especially when you have some flash content open at one tab, you can however still use Chromium-based browsers with removed privacy insulting features, SRWare Iron or Comodo Dragon or such. Alternatively compile your own Chromium build from src code. I'm not even going to start about why using Tor Bundle for daily browsing is a retarded idea.

Hushmail is good but you gotta remember to log in there at least once every 3 weeks.

Vimeo is fucking awesome but they dont allow ( not that they would have ever removed mine tho ) gaming related content. Also it lacks the amount of unofficial music videos etc. illegal content, it keeps the site clean of all that shit there is on Youtube but on the other hand it's not as good for listening music as Youtube. Youtube is fucking horrible shit anyway, I really hope people start removing their Youtube accounts and switching to some other service quickly. The latest forcing of Google+ account made me so fucking mad, not to mention that now if I want to make account there they keep begging my cellphone number, if I wont give it, I cant use that account for shit.

Not using smartphones, ehh yeah.... rather just root them + install custom ROM, stay away from jewish Apple-crap ( not that Google wouldn't be greedy jewish mega corporation these days also ), dont install your phone full of some social media spyware shit and dont install every fucking retarded app or game from Play-store that requests hideous rights to your cellphone. I really dont understand why simple MP3 player must be able to read your phonebook, make calls with your phone etc.
More than likely just some lazy devs who use some ready "rights management" -crap or whatever but it's still fishy.

EDIT: I finally thought I could get some Linux distro to work, tried Mint 15 in Virtualbox for hours, no kernel freeze.
Then now I finally decided to try installing it, kept freezing at install and live mode, both 32 and 64 -bit versions. I dont install a single fucking Linux to this system it seems....
I havent had this problem with any other PC I've installed Linuxes at...

[czkb]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

work for an isp and allocate yourself some 'internets' using unused 'space/slots',
be paid to be anonymous online.

[kaldewej]

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why being anti social?
just keep 2 identities.
do your "normal" stuff on your main machine and keep your private stuff stored on a virtual machine with vpn.
and why should i use private mail provider. Mainly these providers are american -> watched by the nsa.
some points of this thread are ok but some are way to overdone.
just my opinion :D

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

why being anti social?
just keep 2 identities.
do your "normal" stuff on your main machine and keep your private stuff stored on a virtual machine with vpn.
and why should i use private mail provider. Mainly these providers are american -> watched by the nsa.
some points of this thread are ok but some are way to overdone.
just my opinion :D

ITS QUITE OBVIOUS, jewish NWO agenda does not separate your identities and if you're not behind AT LEAST seven proxies you can find yourself from Guantanamo Bay being water-tortured if you've watched anti-goverment preachings of me.

[nt52]

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EDIT: I finally thought I could get some Linux distro to work, tried Mint 15

Now delete this shit and install pure Debian.

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Now delete this shit and install pure Debian.

As I said, no Linux distro works for me. I've tried Mint Debian Edition and pure Debian too.
I just ran memtest to see if it would be something like that but nope.

[nt52]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

As I said, no Linux distro works for me. I've tried Mint Debian Edition and pure Debian too.
I just ran memtest to see if it would be something like that but nope.

Did you try to install Gentoo?

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Did you try to install Gentoo?

I see someone has been on 4chan.

[nt52]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

I see someone has been on 4chan.

Made me laugh, thanks.
But I was a bit serious. If you try to assemble system manually, (including kernel compilling) you can find out wtf goes wrong on other distributions. Btw, gentoo is pretty easy to install, because it has best documentation of all linux distributions. Also, there are guides for dummies.

[LoupBlanc]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Also, there are guides for dummies.

Did you just imply what i think you implied ?

[nt52]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Did you just imply what i think you implied ?

What do u mean exactly?

[mencore]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Made me laugh, thanks.
But I was a bit serious. If you try to assemble system manually, (including kernel compilling) you can find out wtf goes wrong on other distributions. Btw, gentoo is pretty easy to install, because it has best documentation of all linux distributions. Also, there are guides for dummies.

Yeah you have a good point, I really feel like I should figure out this problem but I still could reduce issues by removing overclocks and trying with integrated GPU.
I'll look into this later, once again I lack the time to mess around with this issue.

Did you just imply what i think you implied ?

lol, "for dummies" mean's a guide for people who are new to something, it's not an insult :D

[nt52]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

I'll look into this later, once again I lack the time to mess around with this issue.

Yea, I recommend you to start dealing with your problem only when you'll have really much free time. Especially if you try to install Gentoo.
Earlier, I recommended everyone to start from archlinux, but now it stopped maintaining OpenRC init system and built fucking systemd into distro. Manual installation of systemd is pain in ass, cuz systemd itself is fucking shit. So, now i only can recommend gentoo if u really want to build your system from scratch. It's really great distribution, if u know gentoo - you know linux.

[nt52]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

Look at my debian that was installed on my old pc 1+ year ago :)

[JAvEX]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

I've started using another Firefox addon which I previously overlooked:

SecretAgent - Helps prevent browser fingerprinting by randomizing your browser profile everytime you load a page (via spoofed headers). And it is fully customizable, including a whitelist for sites you trust. Read the website:

https://www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=81

@BaDaZZ: It has its highs and lows. How about you?


edit:
One thing I forgot to mention is that I have flash cookies disabled to prevent tracking:

http://www.reputation.com/reputationwatch/articles/how-manage-disable-and-delete-flash-cookies

Reddit has a page on privacy which is quite informative:

http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/index

...and a really great site that lists free alternatives to proprietary software and services:

https://prism-break.org/

[[myg0t]BaDaZZ]

Re: "Privacy" on the Internet

same,+ still having fun owning nubs. <3

also
interesting read this is.

[JAvEX]

Re: &quot;Privacy&quot; on the Internet

I updated my hosts file with two lists to block bad sites (trackers, phishers, etc):

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

I'm sure I have redundancies, but at this point I might as well go full tinfoil hat mode (short of rage quitting technology).

I set Ubuntu to randomize my mac-address:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AnonymizingNetworkMACAddresses

And right now I have a common, generic hostname. But I think I'll make it randomly select a new hostname from a dictionary every reboot.