Oddbean

Fast solutions to privacy leaks Leak: Cloudflare correlates all your activity How: The bulk of the internet uses Cloudflare's CDN so they oversee all logins Solution: Use AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, or other burner email masking to separate accounts Leak: Uploaded Images leak (to Big Tech) your location, despite a VPN How: Your phone attaches EXIF metadata to images Solution: There's apps to remove EXIF data such as Scrambled EXIF Leak: Your IP address is sent to the sender on opening an email How: tiny images called 'pixels' call upon 3rd party JavaScript Solution: Block third party images/content Leak: Every Linux program sees all the others How: Linux has zero graphical isolation, any program with access to the display can see everything Solution: Run untrusted proprietary software in a virtual machine, or at least not at the same time as your KeePass open. Also Android has better app isolation. Leak: On mobile, Tor exit nodes can correlate activity How: Orbot isn't giving you new Tor circuits for each app, so your anonymous Signal burner and KYC Telegram number are both pulled to the same Tor exit Solution: Use different profiles or firewall toggle them off. (Calyx has a great one or Graphene each app network access) <end> All I know is grind bro, provide value till I drop