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

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      I know at least one FAANG company that had (has? don’t know) a policy of not using any hardware that was ever used in travel to China. If you had to go there on a business trip, you got a loaner laptop (and got your account severely restricted) and when you got back they wiped and discarded the laptop.

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        Tech, military, politics, banking, a lot of industry and business sectors treat China like that. That cuntry is a fucking black hole for anything regarding security, privacy or fucking freedom. You have to take precautions like that. If you don’t you’re an idiot.

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      Cause environment. Multiple the waste of burner phones (which are also terrible if you only use them for a few calls) also the burner laptop wouldn’t cost much less than a shitty Chromebook, possibly the same thing.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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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      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

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

        The wife would complain.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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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          Hahaha really?! My wife didn’t even noticed something different other than WhatsApp media files not loading (fixed whitelisting some wtt domain)… Too bad

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      I roll with the hardened Firefox profile, a vpn and uBlock that it set up to block JavaScript and 3rd party apps by default. Even they breaks most websites and I have to manually approve which connections actually load the content I want to see.

      If I can’t figure it out usually I get a similar answer two or three results down and the site just loads text fine 😅

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    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 said something very illegal bye.

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

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

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        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.

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          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.

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