you already installed the apps. they’ve already scarfed a bunch of data likely. bad choice.

anyway just make sure you dedicate a VPN connection to them and block local network traffic in your vpn app (i know mullvad has this feature).

mullvad browser which is a TOR browser fork, seems to defeat fingerprint.com per-session.

brave strict fingerprint protection on its own actually does not even do this afaik

this is the correct answer

If it wasn’t for all the survivalists and conspiracy theorists and paranoid software devs and whistleblowers and tech journos and anti-authoritarian content creators and anti-surveillance artists and even ordinary joes like me who just want to use online services withouth the digital equivalent of the weird kid in class who stood over your shoulder and watched everything you did (x1000), things could and would be much worse.

this. this is the privacy truth of the year right here. shout out to all the insane people. we dont deserve them.

this is really cool, thanks for the info. federated or decentralized git is long overdue

fair enough lol

educating is hardly an option anymore. the only way to get people to do anything is to brainwash them

another reason why centralization sucks and distributed/decentralized messengers should rise to the top over time.

can someone refresh me on why exactly migrating to manifest v3 is bad?

explain further please?

For alternatives, I recommend to use a community-ran Gitea instance. Project Segfault runs one.

https://about.gitea.com/

https://git.projectsegfau.lt/

Also check out Forgejo, it’s another git software. Disroot has an instance.

https://forgejo.org

https://git.disroot.org/

All of the suggestions here are good but I would not put too much stock in where you get your DNS from if your reasons are for privacy. If anything, using anything beyond your ISP’s DNS could decrease your privacy, because now you are giving info to 2 providers (DNS and ISP)

No matter what DNS server you use, your ISP can see every single IP you connect to and doing reverse lookups is extremely trivial for them of course.

My advice is to use a good VPN provider. Any reputable one will also provide its own DNS servers as well.

end to end encrypted file sharing server, Send: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/

jitsi conference room server, or matrix chat server.

you could run an Oxen node for the Session onion messenger, or a relay for the SimpleX messenger. these are especially important things we need to reduce decentralized messenger dependence.

PrivateBin (pastebin) instance

Great words

Anything beyond defaults will give you a permanent unique browser fingerprint, as ublock lists are detectable in the DOM

Just make another user profile and dont put a vpn on it (assuming android)

Also it still knows you’re using vpn because split tunnel still uses the VPN provider’s DNS server, so sounds like they are also checking who you DNS provider is.

They sound like complete scumbags. Switch banks lol.

I’ve never once seen a valid argument of why someone should not use a VPN.

This. They dont want you to make new disposable accounts.

Yeah mullvad browser plus vpn is the best bet for usability

Nah, Mull is a project of the guy that makes the DivestOS android os