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Also wanted to mention Tails, but there was no space left for it :p

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[–] elboyoloco 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain Tor is better than a new laptop.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Stolen laptop + tails + stolen car + McDonald's wifi

[–] repungnant_canary 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am not quite sure buying a new laptop is better than Tor, unless you have a way to buy the laptops anonymously with cash and not being seen by any cameras. Then you would still need to connect to a different network every time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can wear those anti-face-detection glasses every time you buy a laptop with cash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean these sick Raving glasses? Hell yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup! Those ones.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun tip for anyone in a country with blacklisted torrent sites- TOR browser plows right through it. You can open up TOR and go straight to thepiratebay.org.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Straight to it...after a 30 second delay. Tor is great. It's just far too slow for general browsing

[–] Shazbot 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Needs another layer for VPN chaining after driving 1 hour away to use public WiFi so they never know where you truly are.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

... only for you to google: "burger restaurant near "

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Surely you'd be able to triangulate the VPN connections based on the 1 hour drive.

Better to just become a nomad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tails is basically the bottom one anyways.

[–] Aggravationstation 2 points 1 year ago

Damn straight

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[–] Username02 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In a cat and mice game the mice will always be the one tot lose. You know who wouldn't lose to a cat? A pack of dogs. Be a pack of dogs. I'm gonna stop here before I say something very illegal bye.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Let's kill the capitalists, yes, you're right

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can set one up your network and just point your DNS request at it on a device-by-device basis. So your wife would only use it if she wanted to.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it's quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it's existence if you don't tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists ..give it a try ..you're gonna love it

[–] coffeebiscuit 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.

The wife would complain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup, the ad results in Google had to be whitelisted to increase the SO-acceptance-factor. But once that's done it's really not much of a hassle at all, but whitelisting is easy if you just check the recently blocked domains.

[–] coffeebiscuit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I eventually installed ad guard to remove the Google ad results (different browser plugins would work too). And indeed white listed some of the favorite shop links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That only works when you're willing/allowed/able to configure each users private device. I probably could, but I'd prefer not to.

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[–] rustydomino 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pi-hole is pretty robust and not super hard to set up. You can run pi-hole on relatively cheap hardware, such as a Raspberry Pi 3B. I’m a big fan of Libre Computing’s “le-potato” board for running pi-hole; it’s a cheap raspberry pi clone. You’ll need some basic Linux skills but if you can follow step by step directions you’ll be fine. If you use a raspberry pi or similar hardware you’ll also need a micro SD card reader during the set up process.

[–] uid0gid0 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They even have a Linux distro just for running stuff like that on the Pi, it's called Dietpi and it's pretty bulletproof.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh interesting! I’d never heard of le-potato. I’ll check that out, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VPN, block cookies, noscript, never sign into any user account.

[–] BallShapedMan 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you say more about never signing into a user account? I'm not sure I'm making the connection here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I should have mentioned an "online account".

I have read many stories of people getting into trouble because they thought a VPN would protect their identity, and got caught because they signed into their online account which would be easily traceable.

[–] BallShapedMan 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I got you. That makes sense.

The most illegal thing I do online is make fun of my kids with an account they know so I'm probably good. Though I do hate all the privacy invasion and do reasonable efforts for me to prevent like uBlock and Firefox and so on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With the VPN it stops websites from knowing who you are. They don't have an email, name, or real IP to track.

[–] BallShapedMan 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say that from your signed in account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I am not SpongeBob.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] elboyoloco 8 points 1 year ago

It's a self hosted DNS that you can easily run on a raspberry pi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is lmgtf really neccessary?

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