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I don't care about "online privacy" because I'm not an idiot.

i gave up, tbh

Proxy chain across several residential IPs in different countries, piggy-backing off of machines that you've infected with malware. Custom made personas for different purposes. The meta these days is to have a front-facing public persona that uses regular clearnet services. It's usually less suspicious than being a complete ghost. You want to blend in, rather than stand out.

But yeah, in general, just don't be an idiot. Most privacy leaks are not due to tech but people desperate to talk about their life on the Internet. Unfortunately, you can't have your validation and be anonymous. Do you want people to gush about your dog pictures and your latest purchase, or do you want to be a fly on the wall. People can easily cross reference information that you give them, especially when it's highly specific and personal.

There is no privacy, every commercial device literally has a spyware preinstalled

>>323451
what trv3 h4ck3r5 even use?

>>323456
iPhones

>>323455
>commercial device
Yeah that's why you don't go with those

Tails
Tor
Veracrypt

>>323461
Actually good

>I'm interested in things better than Duckduckgo and Signal, almost normie tier advice. I'm not full schizo (yet) so I'm still exploring different setups

i like breave search and brave ai. i have learned so much from brave ai about how to solve problems in linux. it's an amazing tool to ask stupid questions.

to find an alternative to signal look inside the fdroid, there are tons. i'd start by looking at session and at simplex.

https://fdroid.getsession.org/
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/chat.simplex.app/

>>323471
I've started using Brave Search recently and it has given me much better results than DDG. Brave Search currently feels less prone to that 'I can't find many results for your specific search query so I'm going to give you barely related garbage instead' behaviour that affects most other search engines these days.
I can also vouch for F-Droid, you can find some cool apps there.

>>323472
Yeah DDG isn't great in my experience either and the html version feels even worse somehow. Surprisin, I've found yandex to be useful even if it's also suffered to an extent over the years.

>>323471
I also sign off on f-droid and simplex. The latter is well done. Good design and easy to use.

>>323472

i'd never use chat gpt but from what screenshots i have seen, it is always tries to compliment and reassures the user and tries to tone-match the user while also language policing the user and trying to play primary-school teacher with the user. seems like it is geared towards females and children.

brave tries to teach and explain stuff to me that i genuinely appreciate.

>>323472
Any company that pays YouTubers to promote it is a red flag

>>323504
Truthfully I don't put any stock in their privacy claims, but at least the search works well enough. That being said, I've never used the browser. I find it easier to use Firefox (or some variant of it).