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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).

what are "apps" for better privacy than proton, signal, telegram, brave, duckgo?

>>323518
The "Add or Remove Programs" tool in Control Panel to uninstall your internet drivers.

>>323520
not funny

"Privacy", by the molested corporate definition, is impossible with the way the internet works. You can't order and receive mail IRL without a someone along the way knowing what's inside the package, someone else knowing which address it's going to, and finally someone knowing who lives at that address. Similarly on the internet when you request the contents of a webpage, the multiple parties know what you're requesting, which IP it's going to, and which costumer is given that IP. You can try to make little encryptions to the content, add some detours on the way to your IP through VPNs, and even pay for the internet with some dude's stolen credit card. It remains by the nature of the HTTP protocol that the data is first presented in an unencrypted format by the web host, the VPN company knows which customer it's going to and what their genuine IP is, and your ISP and the modem they've provided keep long rolling logs of the exact MACs and names of devices going through their services as well as which house that account belongs to. And just like with mail IRL, all these different people who know these things are just a call away from eachother and will kindly adhere to any requests for information disclosure in the name of public safety and security. You can wear as many masks as you want but your real face is still just underneath. You can either keep kidding yourself with a bunch of addons and slowing down your browsing by sending your data through a bunch of sketchy VPN IPs owned by unaccountable strangers, but at the end of the day any government or LEA can find out who downloaded what and from where. But why would they need too? How hardcore is the CP you're uploading? How many websites are you buying cocaine from that don't use a trusted payment processor? What classified military documents are you leeching from peers in China? You better not be stealing MP3s.

It's pathetic that so many guys are paranoid and impressionable enough to believe it when YouTubers' ads tell them they need to "protect their personal data with GoyVPN". Pretend there's an issue that doesn't exist and then sell them a solution that doesn't work.

>>323523
It was hilarious. I would know because I typed it and I laughed a lot as I did.

>>323524
>"Privacy", by the molested corporate definition, is impossible with the way the internet works.

in that case there needs to be a new internet for the people and all you cattle can stay on this dirty surveilance and military internet. your attitude of subservience is despicable. there is no way to experience a genuine human life through boot licking. it is a shame you have agreed to waste your life on serving evil because there is no reward that they can give you that can come close to the wealth that you could have found inside yourself. there has never been nor will there ever be a happy soldier because obedience requires the deactivation of your faculties. it is like circumcision but for your brain, emotions and spirit.