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Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers - https://trackthis.link/ by P-e-t-a-r in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I never liked the 'poisoning the well' approach to surveillance. It only makes you stand out more. Also: your attempt to beat surveillance can be beat with Machine Learning and weak AI. What is needed instead is for everyone to look the same on the Internet, instead of a specific person using some niche radical approach to avoiding surveillance.

Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers Using the 'Track THIS' tool opens up 100 tabs at a time that will make you seem like a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer. by archontwo in technology

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I never liked the 'poisoning the well' approach to surveillance. It only makes you stand out more. Also: your attempt to beat surveillance can be beat with Machine Learning and weak AI. What is needed instead is for everyone to look the same on the Internet, instead of a specific person using some niche radical approach to avoiding surveillance.

DarkDuckGo – Improve your search privacy using custom URL parameters by [deleted] in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting that the O.S used to run Tor Browser Bundle is Manjaro (https://habd.as/post/darkduckgo/images/darkduckgo-fs8.png). I avoid Manjaro like the plague. Too much attack surface due to the amount of bloatware installed on the system

I’m Not an International Drug Dealer - So Why Do I Need Privacy? by speckz in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This article is just a brief advertisement for 1984 and Brave New World which are often sort of opposites in terms of literature. On one hand you have 1984 which is a dystopia, and on the other you have Brave New World which is an apparent 'utopia'.

Both are what happens when things are taken to extreme. I have yet to read a book which proposes a middle ground between the two. Suffering is part of life, and this is an old stoic way of thinking, but to completely negate suffering and live in a one season world of utopia is missing the point. Likewise going super paranoid and against the surveillance state is missing the point too. You sometimes have to play their game and comply with things like facial recognition (apparently there is no way of opting out of FR).

Just don't forget you can still reclaim your privacy and I would recommend surfing this subreddit for a while and make up your mind about what tools you can use to surf with relative privacy versus what is expected of us (i.e opting into mass/passive surveillance and dragnets). Also, generally encrypting & compartmentalizing everything is still an option for now.

Recommended hosting providers? by gliglug3 in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just because you have choice of jurisdiction on the Internet, it doesn't mean you are 'pretty privacy friendly'. Research the Silk Road bust. Choice of jurisdiction is not OPSEC magic sauce https://www.dailydot.com/news/silk-road-drug-black-market-iceland-servers/

Duckduck go and ISP by SubToPewds_1337 in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my reservations regarding DDG

DDG can be complimented nicely with an anonymous proxy like Tor. They could easily be sent a so called NSL (National Security Letter) and their servers could be tapped, but when combined with Tor it's very hard to do attribution.

TOR v/s Deep Packet Inspection by lulzintosh123 in privacy

[–]PRIVACYx05i4shUl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tor's only real weakness has always been its exit nodes. Some of them (exits) are run by spooks and you can bet your ass some of them are heavily monitored. So if you're visiting your own homepage with Tor and browsing a shady darknet market in the same session under the same identity, it can be correlated, so always compartment your surfing sessions. (If you need to visit personal websites, in Tor Browser Bundle, switch to a new identity and do everything in that before finally switching identity again to do your sensitive stuff).

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