Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance

Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by bo1024 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @11:35AM (#17214987)

I think it's really cool that this page exists, even if very, very few people will follow all the advice.

As far as web browsing, I feel that blocking javascript is simpler and as effective as many of these much more involved steps -- hosts files, pi-hole, adnauseum, etc.

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by ballenf on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:29PM (#17215482)

Wouldn't the social media "like" buttons still transmit back your IP address as the images are loaded?

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by mirimir on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:36PM (#17217233)

It's pretty easy to setup a bunch of pfSense VMs as gateways for various VPN services. Then you can create nested VPN connections through local internal networks. So each workspace VM is compartmentalized at both OS and networking levels. IVPN published my how-to guides for that. They're a little out of date, but the basic design still works well.

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by jstarfish on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:06PM (#17220788)

You nuke those with an adblocker/contentblocker. Running antiscript alone is at best only half of the solution.

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Re:Improve Your Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance by bo1024 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @02:37PM (#17215751)

Yes, though IP address isn't too much info. You can mitigate it with a VPN or by not loading external resources by default.

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