Share your internet browsing tricks and tips

What have you implemented in your internet browsing habits that made it comfy? I'll start. Ad-blocking Goes without saying. Just install uBlock Origin on your browser. RSS feed reader I no longer subscribe to anything. You can get RSS feeds for most things, they are just buried beneath the surface. You can get them for regular blogs, for YouTube (inspect the source of the page), for Twitter (use nitter instead), etc. I use newsboat, but any RSS reader will do. Youtube Install an extension called SponsorBlock. It's not that well known, but basically it automatically skips the wage slave sections of videos. I haven't heard about VPN providers in ages. Also, I watch a lot of videos at 2x speed, just get to the point!

uBlock Origin Custom DNS level ad and tracker blocking via NextDNS over HTTPS (better than just uBlock, because it reduces outbound connections considerably and generally speeds up web browsing) SponsorBlock addon to block self-promotion, intros, and paid segments in YouTube videos DarkReader addon for dark mode everywhere Some GreaseMonkey scripts for specific sites, like DesuDesuTalk for Lainchan.

The Great Suspender to reduce RAM usage. Privacy Redirect extension to manage eight different redirects. KeePassXC integration. AutoControl for keyboard shortcuts. A custom new tab page for non-RSS sites, browsable with arrow keys, and 24k random backgrounds. All served in bed with an articulated monitor mount and game controller.

>>59492 Is that wind0ws? Delete it and install gentoo. Free yourself, Lainon.

>>59488 >News/Content newsboat + rss-bridge + macros + (yt-dlp + sponsorblock) takes care of all my subscription needs without a browser. >Browsing / blocking / redirecting Privoxy to browse without a bunch of 3rd-party add-ons bloating up my browser. Can block domains (eg. from a public ad blocklist), block any web resources in general, set redirects, change header info, etc. based on rules/regex. Can be easily set up to forward .onion and .i2p to tor and i2p daemons so you don't need different browsers for that. Better yet forward all non-i2p traffic through tor by default. >Qutebrowser Vim-like key bindings, simple and fast (for a 'modern' web browser), with bindings to do soykaf like passing urls to scripts; append feed urls to newsboat and stream, download video links directly with yt-dlp. >>59492 >reduce RAM usage I hear you need 8Gb ram minimum to run windows semi-comfortably nowadays. Is this true?

Blocking Javascript really speeds up page loading and most sites still work for reading.

>>59495 > (yt-dlp + sponsorblock) Wait... can you download a youtube video with yt-dlp after filtering it through sponsorblock? If so, how do you do that? >Privoxy Interesting. Will have a look at it. Thanks lainon.

>>59493 Is that redd1t? Stop going on it and break the habbit. Free yourself, Lainon.

>>59495 >I hear you need 8Gb ram minimum to run windows semi-comfortably nowadays. Is this true? youll need an SSD for anything past windows 7, too. or else common buttons like the start menu will take a minute to react each time also it mysteriously uses more CPU while idle so you wont be able to play games as easily

>>59488 Forgot to mention, but you can also get alerts for new threads on /Ω/ by adding this to your RSS reader https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/index.rss

>>59499 >how do you do that? `--sponsorblock-remove all`, there's also options for just marking them and changing the default api url. Check the man page. It trims out the sponsor segments after downloading so ocf it doesn't work when streaming directly to a player.

uBlock Disable javascript TOR Good enough browse lainchan and get basic information I might need. I used to use yt-dlp to watch stuff but I stopped because I didn't really need to watch stuff online.

>>59505 I wish I knew that before I downloaded the videos I watch the most. Time to go trim some videos.

>>59493 Honestly, I don't disagree. But muh video games, also I'm not going to fuarrrk around with trying to get Linux comfy on a x86 gaming handheld. >>59495 16GB minimum IMO, on 16GB I can still hit 50% use without the browser more than occasionally running Bluestacks/downloaders/videos/misc crap, and personally I'm bad at clearing out browser tabs so I still max out at times with that in the mix. That said I did disable virtual memory.

>>59511 >16GB minimum IMO, The fuarrrk. I didn't use windows in years, but here on linux I'm doing just fine with 8gb of ram with an laptop from 2015. right now I have 7 tabs open and am just using under 2gb of ram. Even when I open an IDE and Krita on top of that it is under 4gb. Not to make a "linux good" post. I just doubt windows takes so much ram unless they really, really have let themselves go

>>59511 >muh video games I can't relate there, video games stopped being interesting to me circa. 2010. I've got several tb drives of 7000+ dos games and every game for every major console from the nes to the ps1. and some win98,xp-era games and that's enough to last me a thousand lifetimes. >>59501 >mysteriously uses more CPU while idle while idle is the perfect time to generate metadata from the raw usage data and send them to some remote datacenter. >>59513 >just under 2gb What distro/'flavour'/background processes are you running? I rarely go past 700Mb. Looking at htop the biggest contributors by far are the browser, xorg, music-player and the networky daemons tor, i2pd, privoxy and dnscrypt-proxy.

>>59488 >Browser Librewolf (Firefox fork with sane defaults and great added settings) >Ad-blocking uBlock Origin set on medium mode https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode >RSS I don't really use them often but I want to. I use akregator or thunderbird. >YouTube I use privacy redirect to an invidous instance with sponsrblock set up. On mobile I use the polymorphicshade fork of newpipe.

>>59517 >Adblocking, avoid them, they don't add any privacy Conventional ad-blocking indeed blocked them cosmetically but ublock also has more advanced filters to block trackers and generally reduces web bloat >extensions have privileged access and require you to trust the developer If you utilize open source extensions, you don't have to. You can view the source code to see what's behind the program. You can also take a look at the required permissions an extension needs to have. >Only use the official YT website oh no no no no >I do not use Invidious because I'd have to trust both Google and some stranger on the internet, and they might track me more than Google does. The source code for invidous is licensed under AGPLv3. Use a provider that has a good track record like yewtu.be and snopyta. This claim is bogus, because nobody complained about it. >If you want to avoid sharing information to Google, use a VPN. You are clearly misinformed here. VPNs are NOT a magic bullet to provide privacy against Google. All you are doing is change the IP and hide internet traffic from the ISP, changing the trust to the provider itself. Google can still track you via cookies and javascript, which can be rectified with an adblocker, but since you tell they're "insecure", oh well, ngmi. Idk if your answer is bait or are unironically an applel user, but I'm quite surprised you stumbled across this board.

Use Piped in place of YouTube. You can even make an account and 'subscribe' to channels. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped https://piped.kavin.rocks/

>>59522 Don't bother, doesn't matter if it's a bait or an idiot, better to not cast your pearls before swine.

>>59522 They're baiting, but for what it's worth a self-hosted invidious instance is another viable alternative if you don't trust yewtu.be or snopyta.

>>59513 To be fair, I don't have the best habits on keeping usage low, and often have a lot running at once. I'm sure more mindful people would be 'fine' with 8GB, so while I guess I may have not answered accurately to the question entirely, my personal experience is to never recommend 'just enough'. nobump

>>59518 >What distro/'flavour'/background processes are you running? I rarely go past 700Mb. Looking at htop the biggest contributors by far are the browser, xorg, music-player and the networky daemons tor, i2pd, privoxy and dnscrypt-proxy. Standard debian 11. Most of the RAM seems to be eaten by just little things building up, The browser really is the only thing I regularly use that makes some impact as it uses rougly 500mb just by starting. Besides that everything rarely eats more than 60mb RAM just by itself.

>>59492 >discord tab >google drive tab >twiiter (nitter) tab >windows >anime picture you need to go back to /g/ with this soykaf

>>59537 I'm on Arch and idle at ~40mb. FireFox with a handful of tabs and extensions is using an additional 260mb. I have 32gb total. But I rarely go over 1gb unless gaming. Can't stand bloat.

>>59488 I recently discovered that adblocking tools like uBlock Origin can hide any element of the page, not just ads. It's very handy and I for example managed to hide those crappy useless "quotes" that break text flow and eat half the page height and enormous footers with paragraphs of legalese on some news article sites. Now I wonder if there are subscription lists for these kind of cosmetics and where to find them? Additionally, uBlock Origin disables javascript on pages, NoScript is not needed for this redundant function. >>59522 Stop replying to madaidownie spam. >>59523 I tried a few piped instances and noticed links and timestamps don't work as well as they are on invidious. >>59537 Any search indexer like Balloo, Tracker, Recoll consumes 6+ gigabytes of RAM easily.

>>59542 Who's madaidownie?

(Somewhat) easy way to find movies streaming links on google: -Search for the title of the movie + "streaming" on google -Go straight at the bottom of the first page -Click on the lumendatabase.org link to see the complaint -Search for your movie on the page (Ctrl + F) -Watch the "Allegedly Infringing URLs:" section -Chose a website on the list, visit it. -Search for your film on the website -??? -PROFIT This way you don't waste your time clicking on random search results and end up on fake streaming sites. If the copyright holder took time to send a complaint about the website to google, it most likely mean the website is really hosting a pirated version of the movie watchable in streaming :) Sometimes the links in the complaint are censored sadly, but most of the time they are not. I know, google, *boooo*, but hey, at least it's really quick

>>59554 Why are you suggesting streaming

>>59555 What do you mean? Like, why I suggest streaming over downloading ? Because it's easier when you're not a home and don't have access to your own computer. Let's say you are at your weed dealer home. The guy is weird but he has good weed. When he sees you, his face light up and he wants to talk about everything like you're his friend. You know he's lonely, so after buying your weed you ask him if you can roll one here and smoke it with him. So 2 hours later you're still at your dealer house and you're eating pizzarolls and you REALLY want to watch the movie Speed. You don't have your computer, your dealer is a bit scared about "tech stuff" and don't want to to download anything because "THE FBI WILL KICK MY DOOR DUDE". So you suggest watching it on streaming. Your dealer have a confused look on his face so you say "Like, you know, like watching it on youtube dude" and he agrees. Does it make sense now?

>>59557 Niggerbro, you can stream ddl links with vlc

>>59559 Is it possible to stream bittorrents, download and watch them at the same time? What [free software] video player allows that? Assuming, it's something popular or on private tracker, has many seeds and download speed is not a bottleneck.

>>59542 >I recently discovered that adblocking tools like uBlock Origin can hide any element of the page, not just ads. It's very handy and I for example managed to hide those crappy useless "quotes" that break text flow and eat half the page height and enormous footers with paragraphs of legalese on some news article sites. Now I wonder if there are subscription lists for these kind of cosmetics and where to find them? Now this is an interesting idea for a project...

>>59560 streaming torrents is abusing the bittorent protocol. Download files and watch offline. Why do people insist on streaming everything nowadays? And seed your torrents.

>>59563 I think lain meant streaming as in just watching while it's downloading. You can still seed after. Sometimes it's more convenient to watch while it's downloading.

>>59560 Any video player will stream a torrent so long as the video file is downloading sequentially, and the start and end of the file are already downloaded. That is to say, this depends on your torrent client and download settings not your video player.

>>59557 Oh right, forgot some people here are socialization addicts.

>>59561 You can hide hueg banners on imageboards as well. If only it had way to unhide elements without refreshing the page, through some CSS trick, that would also help hiding huge reply fields. >>59563 Streaming is downloading. I don't like how bittorrent does it and I do not understand why it's "abusing". There are 9 thousand seeds for a popular movie, my 200Mbps channel is saturated, yes it's downloading fast, but I want to watch it instantaneously while I download, that's the whole point, no waiting time. You can read a webpage before it's fully downloaded, why not a movie? And of course I seed, and set high priority on rare stuff. >>59571 There are like dozens of torrent clients and they all look the same to me. I use whatever came standard with my OS, Transmission, it's horrible.

>>59576 I'm not familiar with Transmission's menus/settings. But there should be options like these (see pic) from qBittorrent. So long as these are on, you can open a partially downloaded video file with any video player and it will play.

>>59576 >>59582 Apparently, Transmission doesn't have this ability, per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32294858/transmission-torrent-client-sequential-download qBittorrent does, so just use that.

I have outdated certificates and an obsolete computer so half the time hsts makes it impossible for me to use websites like lainchan or wikipedia so I use an outdated version of tor which works on my computer to access them and block tor from updating cause the new versions don't work on my computer :)

>>59495 >Qutebrowser pls send your scripts for url stuff

Some essentials for power browsing: -Tree Style Tabs extension (allows you to organize tabs in groups) -Session Manager extension (for managing large amounts of tabs between sessions) -Download Manager S3 extension (manages downloads in a handy bar at the bottom of browser) -Quickfind setting (finds things the moment you start typing) -Memorizing shortcuts like Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn, Ctrl + K, Ctrl + L, etc.

>>59586 here you go. They very much fit my needs/env so it will need some adjusting on your end. then just add something like config.bind(',h', 'hint links spawn linkhandler 0 {hint-url}') to config.py

My most trusted tool is the off switch. Appreciate it now before they make them illegal.

Use Tor browser and only Tor browser Do not install extensions Do not change any settings Do not add bookmarks Do not change your search engine Do not resize the window bar Do not enable JavaScript Ever Do not have accounts

Can one even access the internet without those ads blockers? Or the whole internet is soykaf now because of that? I have been thinking in not use it and just stop accessing any website that has them. Better to avoid them than use something to hide it.

>>59629 How long before governments make use of smartphone mandatory for all transactions as well as identification, and phones are perpetually kept on without need of a battery with some tesla coil magic, and perpetually connected to a 5G network?

>>59632 probably longer if users like you quit using them all the time Its totally possible to live without a smartphone, or phone at all, and live a decent life. t. I do it also thanks for the /comf/ image OP man I love hot chocolate

>>59632 >>59634 eu doing this right now 1. phone number registration mandatory linked with your ID 2. banking mandatory 2factor and the first bank already announced closing chiptan so you are forced into phone 2factor as only option Now i believe 1. is not universally implemented yet across all member states but the fact of the matter is some countries have it fully implemented so "no banking without phone" for them is already reality.

>>59648 Both of those have been a thing in my country for, I don't know, ten years? FIY you're not forced to use a smartphone app for 2 factor, text message/token/phone call is an option in just about every bank. In reality everybody just uses smart phone contactless payment anyway, debit cards are going out of fashion.

>>59657 we still prefer hard cash irl here so it will be a forced transition if they drag us to contactless phone. Only reason i got note of this is cause suddenly paypal demanded i do 2factor phone and they also mentioned new law that forced them to do it.

What has helped a lot is to create multiple 'profiles' in Firefox and then to load the appropriate Firefox browser based on what I want to do. It sounds complicated but creating a 'profile' is just creating an empty folder, it does the rest for you. When I want to open firefox with a certain profile I type in the terminal: /path/to/firefox/firefox -profile "/path/to/profile/profilename.default" I have those commands saved as text so I can run them easily, they are also saved in the terminal memory so often I just use up arrow and enter. This sounds overcomplicated but it saves me a lot of effort. What it lets me do is basically manage multiple online accounts, without anything 'overlapping' with each other. On one I can log into social media, on another I can always keep cookies and history disabled, on another I can also use the same social media sites as the first but on a completely different account. I can also open multiple instances of the browser simultaneously to be logged into multiple accounts at the same time. Where I am logged in I never log out. That way I don't have to log out and log in to another account to check something, and then log out and again and log in back to the first account. They all stay logged in. For general browsing I have another 'profile', so that means that my general browsing is never tracked and connected to my social media accounts, because cookies are separate and it is considered a separate browser in a separate instance. Since I discovered this it would be hard to go back, I strongly advise it. It's not just about simplicity and saving time with multiple accounts, but also about not being locked out of accounts. Try to log out of and log in to accounts too many times and they will start locking you out. Or you will get flagged somewhere somehow and won't be able to log in to some public facing service. Keep all of your accounts separate like this and the websites don't know where you are going or what you are doing, all they care about is that you still have the cookies saved from the last time you logged in and you look like a reliable and safe user.

>>59665 That's pretty cool, lainon. I would recommend Firefox Multi-Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) if you just want to keep logged in multiple accounts on same profile. It doesn't address the "having a profile with cookies and history disabled", so profiles are still the best option for that. You can also just do firefox -P <just profile name without full path and angle brackets> . Firefox even has tab completion for profiles.

>>59665 >Profiles I have tried using those, but ultimately decided to just use different browser for different things, because i kept mixing things together. Or is there some reasonable way to clearly distinguish different profiles from each other? >>59665 >It's not just about simplicity and saving time with multiple accounts, but also about not being locked out of accounts. This is first time i hear about this. Is that thing?

>>59665 >>59669 It's possible to do something similar on qutebrowser with --basedir, --temp-basedir and --config-py and qute-pass for accounts. Distinguish between profiles with different colored title bars or something.

>>59669 Thanks, good points. >>59670 For me it's easier using profiles because I can name them after what I use them for, and there's a limit on how many browsers you install versus creating as many profiles as you want. I was originally going to try to just have a bunch of instances of one browser saved in portable mode multiple times (or as AppImages) but this works too. On getting locked out, what I mean is if you open up your social media website of choice and start logging into a bunch of accounts one after another, some sites track that and might lock you out for it.

>>59665 This is a great tip but the only flaw with this is global passive adversarial tracking cannot be avoided. Using separate profiles with separate social/personal accounts may prevent inter-sharing of botnet that abuse DOM cache for tracking (currently not talked about) or other nefarious cache/supercookie variant but does not prevent them altogether from building up a profile based around that IP and the time correlation. Even the GPU and display size alone is enough to uniquely identify you considering you have gl graphics enabled in browser. My suggestion is using VPN or proxy of sorts atop the profiles that you don't want to link to your IP (although this is a complete joke since your ISP, and the devices/browsers/dns/apps all want to track you either way and have the tools/botnet preinstalled to do so). These are futile either way due to fingerprinting techniques which are the very reason you get "flag/lock" you out when you use many accounts or have the same pattern/speed as ones that already got derezzed/detected by automated systems. It's usually -P "profilename" and you can create a *.desktop file or a shortcut file to open them with ease. Make sure to put them in profile.ini and have a different "profilename" of the random.profilename folders >>59669 Containers are organized but futile and is a solution presented only to enable further tracking. Containers afaik don't have its own add-ons. Different profiles can have different add-ons, you can even run a profile without any privacy enhancement, but beware of the DOM cache and other sorts of problems, you sometimes have to manually delete them, it's being abused currently. >>59488 There are a bunch of lainons who probably removed microphones of smartphones but protip: there's about up to 3 microphones on your phone. Some phones even reach up to 5 or 6+ ll try to list them (ascending, more common): Main Mic (this could be stereo too!) Camcorder Mic Voice recognition (Assistant) Mic Noise cancellation Mic (loudspeaker and 'phone' speaker) Far-Field Mic (used for snooping on your bedroom while phone is at the living room, along with Near-Field on some, for near signal-noise cancellation etc.) NuHF Mic (used for Audio Content Recognition and more, long range botnet communication).

>>59522 Late to the party but I'll never know the entire post but >Adblocking, avoid them, they don't add any privacy This is somewhat true, privacy abusers are the companies themselves, adblocking does not prevent the ISP or ISP's partners/shareholders (think big tech ;^) ), non RYF-FSF devices (with botnet APIs and telemetry), from abusing your privacy. Heck they can even access your SMS via apps but they will argue "it's so the apps could fetch the SMS verification code for people of old age" but they clearly have unlimited access over your personal notifications/messages enough that it's used to track/personalize your "preferences". There's no one-button switch for privacy, it encompasses multiple companies and service providers, and devices which have anti-privacy by default. using adblock on the latest android device is absurd. >extensions have privileged access and require you to trust the developer This is a great reminder but most extensions or add-ons don't have source available >Only use the official YT website This is only a good idea in combination with a VPN, since using a non-official API like invidious violates TOS therefore they can be obliged to track you even more, also, invidious does not turn on proxy by default. >I do not use Invidious because I'd have to trust both Google and some stranger on the internet, and they might track me more than Google does. This is bait but it's probably true, I've seen shady instances, mostly Indian dataminers. Same people who have made "lineage" ports with datamining I guess (actually it's much easier to larp as one for scapegoat). >If you want to avoid sharing information to Google, use a VPN. This is true considering IP-linked profile is what makes your privacy and activity vulnerable the most aside from directly using products they've developed or devices with their products (assuming you use a trustable VPN provider or better a remote residential host).

>>59665 >On one I can log into social media, on another I can always keep cookies and history disabled, on another I can also use the same social media sites as the first but on a completely different account. I can also open multiple instances of the browser simultaneously to be logged into multiple accounts at the same time. Where I am logged in I never log out. That way I don't have to log out and log in to another account to check something, and then log out and again and log in back to the first account. They all stay logged in. This sounds like an overly complicated way to use social media. Is there any practical use for all this?

Any tips for dealing with mailing lists? i never really got into mailing lists but i feel i should is there a tool that can download the whole fuarrrking list to my navi and lets me browse through every post? just look at this soykaf https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/list/dng.en.html how are you supposed to read this, it is such a mess

Aside from what everyone else said, >Dark Reader is a great extension because you can enable custom themes to follow whatever colorscheme you're currently using on your Terminal / Emacs / whatever other programs you use in a daily basis. >Vimium is a great extension that allows you to navigate webpages with the keyboard-only. Make sure to make your newtab redirect to a local html file or a blank page so that your vim bindings also apply there. >Custom userChrome.css for a more minimal UI if you're using Firefox or derivatives. I particularly like Cascade ( https://github.com/andreasgrafen/cascade ). >SearXNG with custom settings for more efficient web searching. >Firefox search keywords for efficient searching from the urlbar (not all websites support this) >µMatrix for superior content filtering/blocking

>>59488 Also, I recommend using a minimal web browser for simple tasks such as reading documentation or articles/blogposts. Don't use an extraordinarily bloated program such as a "modern" web browser when you don't have to. There are also numerous other ways in which you can reduce your reliance on bloated web browsers, such as playing videos with mpv/yt-dlp and ytfzf, and streaming anime with ani-cli.

>>59912 >Dark Reader or qutebrowser's "colors.webpage.darkmode.*" options >Vimium or qutebrowser basic usage >Custom userChrome.css >having a user interface at all >Firefox search keywords or qutebrowser >µMatrix hostsblock + privoxy rules addons are a meme

Any recommendation for a firefox extension to block websites? the one i was using just doesn't work anymore, i need the extension to: > block redirections to blacklisted website, while not taking me to some other site for example, i go to google.com i want the webpage not to load instead of redirecting me to a "hey, you know you're not supposed to be here" html page. > import/export blacklist feature

>>59488 I do the same thing with RSS for YouTube but I use sfeed with dmenu instead of newsboat now. #!/bin/sh channel=$(sfeed_plain "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds/"* | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | awk -F ' {1,} ' '{print $2}' | uniq | dmenu -l 10 -i) url=$(sfeed_plain "$HOME/.sfeed/feeds/$channel" | dmenu -l 10 -i | \ sed -n 's@^.* \([a-zA-Z]*://\)\(.*\)$@\1\2@p') test -n "${url}" && mpv "${url}" Simply gets a list of all the channels I have feeds for, select a channel, it gives you a list of the latest videos, and then select a video to play in mpv.

>>59897 the problem was usually you'd have automatic cookie cleaner add ons on your browser that you want some privacy with. using profiles solves the problem that makes your cookies get removed, and logging in multiple times a day can make them think you're botting. using a browser profile where you don't need to remove anything/cookies (since the profile is exclusively for botnet service) makes it easier, also it means you don't need to install privacy add ons which makes these botnet services shadowban you for running a measly adblocker (which they try to detect in their JS). even running canvas randomizer/poisondata these days makes these botnet/bigtech think you're botting and trigger anti-fraud systems or captchalock you on your IP or account since the fraudsters also use the canvas randomizer or other privacy stuff (and probably neural net/ml learned thinks you're also one false positive due to similar patterns).

I use Google Chrome on all devices. I stay away from Firefox and browsers based on it because Firefox is not secure. I stay away from forks of Chrome too since they will always be behind upstream Chrome days each release and some of them, notably Ungoogled Chromium, do not automatically update. I avoid lesser-known browsers like Pale Moon and Qutebrowser because the developers are unknown, little security research is being done on those browsers, and by using them, I will have a unique fingerprint. You cannot have privacy or security using those browsers. Use Google Chrome (or Tor Browser if your threat model requires anonymity and you understand the risks of using Firefox-based browsers) and nothing else. I value my privacy, so I disable all telemetry in the settings. I've turned off everything under privacy/security, including "protect you and your device from dangerous sites". While I believe Google Safebrowsing is an important security feature, it also reports back the websites I visit. I also block third-party cookies and block most web permissions including location. Most of the time I browse in incognito mode to prevent Chrome from storing my history. I do not use a VPN because my threat model does not require one, but if I wanted to prevent IP-based tracking, I would use a reputable VPN such as ProtonVPN, Mullvad, or IVPN. I do not use any browser extensions for a number of reasons: they increase attack surface, have privileged access within my browser, require me to trust the developers of extensions, weaken site isolation, and make my fingerprint unique. I don't believe uBlock Origin adds any real privacy but worsens it because by blocking some trackers and allowing others, I am standing out thus reducing privacy. I do not disable JavaScript since it does not prevent fingerprinting but might worsen it since most people do not disable it, and most websites will not load without it. Sources: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/browser-tracking.html https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/ https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#philosophy https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-fingerprinting/ https://reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/tbxdva/browser_recommendations/i0izw8k/

>>60029 >Not using Chromium

I never use chrome because I would be uniquely identifiable using it. That's insecure because the government is unethical. > I don't use chrome because I'm not some idiot.

>>60031 What do you use instead?

>>60031 >I never use chrome because I would be uniquely identifiable using it. And your IP address is not uniquely identifiable at all.

>>60029 It sounds like you fail to recognize that most of us want to secure ourselves by our own means and not under the watchful eye of Google. You might be secure in however you describe security to be but you are still Googles $5 little whore. >I do not use a VPN because my threat model does not require one If your entire privacy solution is to try and "blend in" then I doubt you ever had any real threat model to begin with.

https://farside.link/ >youtube piped >twitter nitter >r*ddit t*ddit >ddg searxng

>>59511 > video games Consider toying around with Wine or Steam's Proton. Day by day, more of my library is working with my daily workhorse. DOS Box for those DOS games, but I figure you are using that already. And I'm sure many emulators have Linux builds. Personally I need to get around to learning modern Wine techniques since I'm still stuck in the Winetricks age. I've good things heard about Bottles.

>>59584 you know you can spoof certificates right to just make it 'work' if you know the site is trustworthy t. win7

>>59584 >>60168 Allowing outdated (really, it's same as revoked) certificates defeats the whole purpose of HTTPS. You could be using plain HTTP or Telnet instead. Solution: Install GNU/Linux, like Xubuntu. If you are unsure whether everything will work, you can use windoze disk management tools to shrink windows partition and then install GNU/Linux on the newly reclaimed space and dual-boot windoze and GNU/Linux. You can also boot SystemRescueCD and use gparted to shrink the windows partition (login as root and type startx to get GUI) I think using Windoze tools is better, but I have used gparted in the past and it has always worked without any issues) >https://xubuntu.org/download/ >https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/shrink-a-basic-volume or https://www.system-rescue.org/ Use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) to create a bootable LiveUSB that can be used to test and install Xubuntu. You can use Xubuntu LiveUSB system to check whether everything works before installing anything on disk. Installing/using Xubuntu is easy, and you have nothing to lose, if you test Xubuntu. Nowadays Wine and Steam+Proton work. And, on Xubuntu, you will get security updates and fresh software.

I feel most comfy when I see that the advertisers and recommendation algorithms of the botnet just cannot seem to grasp my interests. They can only push me towards normal person soykaf and... chinese soap opera action scenes? I've just used the browsing tips from here: https://cyberpunked.org/ sadly don't have a VPN yet, can't afford one. So I mostly use Tor and am avoiding torrenting til I can afford Mullvad.

>>60171 tor is a lot more secure than any vpn. You shouldn't stop using it, even though mullvad is one of the only vpns worth paying for, it's still a direct connection with someone else computer. For torrenting it's ok but it's worth getting into a private tracker.

>>60177 Just learning about what a private tracker is. I'll look into getting one through my own research. Thanks for the tip in the right direction lain. I think I'll still get Mullvad, there are some things VPNs are useful for outside torrenting. Plus it is at a good deal.

>>60160 >piped >We're sorry but Piped doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue. yeah no

>>60031 Your logic is incorrect, you should use the most common configuration as to blend with the masses, not try to be different.

>>59560 Very late response but vlc-bittorent plugin does this, be aware that it seeds as you stream however

>>60181 invidious is not very functional without js either.

>>60219 sure, but on the other hand its surprisingly functional: I expected it to just plain not work at all ever, and yet it works, more or less.

>>60192 Your hardware has identifiers specifically made to be unique that browsers can read out. Any "just use popular software" approach will never work since they aren't stupid and solved the problem long ago already. Secondary what you can actually do is spoof browser data which means browser extensions let you lie and pretend you run chrome on win even if you use palemoon or whatever on linux. The best solution overall would be if people agreed on one data set and everyone spoofed with same data.

I use QuickMedia for posting on 4chan, reading manga, watching anime, and chatting on matrix (hopefully it gets IRC support soon as it's a far superior protocol) https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/quick-media-matrix