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How private am I? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Rez@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I think we all draw a line between privacy and convenience and I think I found mine and settled into a comfort zone of sorts. I use Fedora 38. My browser is Mozilla Firefox with it's "strict" setting. uBlock origin and uMatrix. When I need/want to use a site that doesn't work due to blocked connections I relax the restrictions in uMatrix or temporarily disable it entirely if I get frustrated or I'm in a hurry. I watch videos on YouTube. Don't use social media, but I do use Facebook messenger (although I prefer to use Signal with the handful of people I can). I use a Xiaomi phone with custom ad blocking DNS (I'd like to get a Pixel with GrapheneOS someday). I look for an app on F-Droid first, but install it through Google Play if I can't find what I need there. I use Qwant and DuckDuckGo. I use ReVanced. I do not use a VPN. I think that's all the relevant information. My question is: how easy do you think it still is for big tech to track me? Are there any suggestions you would have for a person like me that wouldn't sacrifice too much convenience?

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[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy, but I wouldnt suggest you make things too inconvenient (I personally am fine with unbreaking things).

Some thoughts/suggestions:

uMatrix is dead fyi.
Librewolf is arkenfox but with less fiddling if you want to give it a try.
Set your browser to us a DNS over HTTPS (like mullvad).
You can use NewPipe as a youtube app alternative, FreeTube on desktop, and Invidious or Piped in browser.
ProtonVPN is free and trusted.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ProtonVPN is full of lies and will get you no where. You can't just pay to make yourself invisible

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Willing to expand on that? They are well audited, and changing your ip helps to disassociate from your approx location (also allows for multiple browsers to come from a common ip).

Also of course a vpn isnt going to make you invisible. Fingerprinting can allow you to uniquely identify browsers through using a handful of metrics.

[–] jherazob@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VPNs were never intended to make you anonymous, if you expected a VPN to make you anonymous you were very mistaken

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

VPNs were never intended to make you anonymous

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] random65837@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Examples?