Seems like sound advice to me. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that we can bring about change in the real world if we remain in total anonymity all the time, isn't it? Any ideas on how to protect ourselves and fight the totalitarians at the same time?
May be way outdated, but TOR and FBI in Internet searches turn up more hits than I feel comfortable with.
Brave is based on Chrome, which is why you see bits of it in there. Some of the stuff built in to Brave is helpful and automatically does what you suggest re: trackers, ads, etc. May be worth a reconsider?
Other things that may be more difficult: ditching Intel chips and MS Windows OS. Both of which I still have to do...
eg: - (may be an overly melodramatic article - ymmv):
NB: this was from 2013, and accidentally discovered. Who tf knows what's in there now...
Consider you cannot stop MS Windows from updating their OS on your machine, plus "In a statement, Microsoft said: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands." The company reiterated its argument that it provides customer data "only in response to government demands and we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers".
Seems like sound advice to me. On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that we can bring about change in the real world if we remain in total anonymity all the time, isn't it? Any ideas on how to protect ourselves and fight the totalitarians at the same time?
Say No to NordVPN: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/ (better fleshing out here: https://www.bestvpn.co/nordvpn-hacked/)
Ok so it was 2 years ago, but uh... No.
May be way outdated, but TOR and FBI in Internet searches turn up more hits than I feel comfortable with.
Brave is based on Chrome, which is why you see bits of it in there. Some of the stuff built in to Brave is helpful and automatically does what you suggest re: trackers, ads, etc. May be worth a reconsider?
Other things that may be more difficult: ditching Intel chips and MS Windows OS. Both of which I still have to do...
eg: - (may be an overly melodramatic article - ymmv):
NB: this was from 2013, and accidentally discovered. Who tf knows what's in there now...
https://popularresistance.org/new-intel-based-pcs-permanently-hackable/
and
Consider you cannot stop MS Windows from updating their OS on your machine, plus "In a statement, Microsoft said: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands." The company reiterated its argument that it provides customer data "only in response to government demands and we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data