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

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      No shit Sherlock

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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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        That’s why I always buy a plane ticket to another country before I browse. You think I’m using a VPN? That’s cute.

    • @johnyrocket@feddit.ch
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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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    Stolen laptop + tails + stolen car + McDonald’s wifi

  • @repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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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.

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

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            As somebody who owns multiple pairs of those type of glasses, does that shit really work?.. Why would they mess up facial recognition anymore than normal glass or sunglasses?

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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 say something very illegal bye.

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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.

    • @Risk@feddit.uk
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      Surely you’d be able to triangulate the VPN connections based on the 1 hour drive.

      Better to just become a nomad.

  • idotherock
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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.

    • fernandu00
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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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          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@lemmy.world
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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.

        • fernandu00
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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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      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.

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        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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          yeah, can also use Raspian, which is a Debian variant designed for raspberry pi boards.

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

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

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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.

        • @BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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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.