10 Quick Tips to become Invisible
1. Avoid VPNs that don’t accept cryptocurrency, but remember they see your home IP. So it's not anonymous without Tor or it's alternatives
2. Avoid Big Tech, but if you have to, then use the LibRedirect browser extension and/or Farside.link service to use Tor or LibreWolf without JavaScript
3. If a website blocks you, try Vanilla Firefox with your VPN set to Port 443 TCP. Modify Firefox to reduce telemetry by setting "block dangerous and deceptive content" and "provide search suggestions" both to off
4. Linux isn’t as hard as you think. You don't need the command line.
5. Keep passwords in offline storage, such as KeePass. Then keep that in VeraCrypt
6. Wear a Bitcoin logo shirt at local public events, then get the info of people who approach you, so you can buy/sell for in-person cash
7. Avoid SMS, but if you have to, then use VoIP and never the number of the SIM card you get service from, to hide your physical location
8. Avoid email, but if you have to, then go for open source software you control.
It's not as hard as people make it out to be.
9. If a friend refuses to use privacy tech (such as Signal/Session), instead of cursing them out, increase the value your friendship offers, to make it worth it to install a new app
10. Be aware that Cloudflare sees ALL content on their network, including passwords.
Check DNS record tools (such as bgp.tools) or Ombrello to see if the site uses them:
ombrelo.im5wixghmfmt7gf7wb4xrgdm6byx2gj26zn47da6nwo7xvybgxnqryid.onion
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Thanks for the post. Is it only Cloudflare that can do that or other CDNs too? What about Bunny or Gcore, for instance?
Bunny doesn't point your domain, its loading elements on your site with their domain. So like a video or image but not the site itself. So bunny is good.
Gcore is domain pointed I believe, so not as good but variety is important. We don't want one company seeing all
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All this, plus I'll do a shoutout to archive.org.
If a website rejects your browser for being too hard to track, go to the address bar and add https://web.archive.org/web/ before the URL of the website you wanted.
As in, https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.aljazeera.com
This will fetch the content from the latest Internet Archive snapshot. Gets you the content you wanted despite website's insincere concern-trolling and even paywalls (sometimes, anyway).
Thx for the awesome write-up!
Which email would be open source?
Mail in a box, Luke smith scripts, iRedmail
There's others I haven't used
I recommend mail in box for n00bs
Not quick but totally worth the effort. I consider myself pretty week read up on digital privacy and have put many things into practice. I've not done a single thing on this list yet though!
The road is long.
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Could you recommend me some email and VPN services with that characteristics?
Email we recommend you host it yourself w FOSS software. Mail in a box, Luke smith scripts, ect
Pfff, no idea. The privacy is unaccessible for basic users like me
And what about VPN services?
dont forget about SimpleX messenger!
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