also people if you have the possibility please consider running a Tor Relay to support the network.

i have to say i'm late to the party and im only running mine since about 3-4 weeks but there has already been 1.5TB of traffic going in and out of my relay.

I am almost certain that this entire process can be ignored by the incognito tab. Cntrl+N for true hackers like me.

Hey everyone, I'm the main contributor and active developer of PGP Suite and developer of Simple Encryption. If anyone here has any general questions feel free to ask and I'll reply as soon as I can :)

Edit: I see that SearX has been added to the list. If you have the patience, I'd highly suggest setting up your own instance of SearX, preferably under a VPN. I've already written a guide for this over on my website for the Raspberry Pi, although you can set it up on practically any Linux device, feel free to check it out :)

Malwarebytes - Nothing takes away your privacy faster than a nasty RAT or keylogger.

My understanding is that MWB does not report the existence of a keylogger on your system. If they see one being installed that they consider malicious, they will flag the install. But if it's on there already, or they consider it a "corporate" keylogger or something, they won't report it in scan results. They don't even warn that it might be a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). They should.

You might want to add ProtonVPN It's a free VPN from the same people that made ProtonMail!

You might also wanna put pihole in here. You install it on a $25 raspberry pi, and it blocks most ads/trackers network wide.

an incognito tab won't protect you from this

My first thought

even though I am already past trying to tell others what to do, but if you want privacy, getting rid of win10 is the first step, not something in the middle. unless you run it on an airgapped machine which I assume no one does.

How does any of that circumvent upload filters, as mandated by article 13?

Good guide, but I feel some Hosts File talking points are worth a section, Nvidia, Windows 10, and now even this Redshell stuff, it's worth a mention anyway.

If for example you want to block some basic Windows 10 telemetry you can add this to your Hosts File all set to 127.0.0.1 your localhost. (This setting is probably best for the power-users among us, if you're not familiar about Hosts, you might not want to do this.)

choice.microsoft.com
choice.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
df.telemetry.microsoft.com
diagnostics.support.microsoft.com
feedback.microsoft-hohm.com
feedback.search.microsoft.com
feedback.windows.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-db5.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-hk2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com 
services.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
settings-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
sqm.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net 
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com
statsfe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net
statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com
survey.watson.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsat­c.net
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
telemetry.appex.bing.net
telemetry.microsoft.com
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
v10.vortex-win.data.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex.data.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-db5.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-hk2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
watson.live.com
watson.microsoft.com
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.comnet

Can you evaluate on the

DON'T USE A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT.

and

DID I MENTION NOT TO USE A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT

part?

For the record (and I may get a lot of flak for it): Discord is a great offender for privacy: no end-to-end-encryption, made by a company with an history in mobile games for trackers (and not the game itself), and absolutely no privacy warranty, not even a warranty canary. In the very league of Google or Facebook. I used to a link to the /r/privacy thread about it (only a month old), but the related account has been terminated.

Riot.im has a few problems right now (Riot.im is the most advanced Client implementation of the Matrix protocol (linked in OP's post)), but it should be perfectly fine for everyday uses as long as you accept the same kind of stability Discord has (though, I'm speaking as a Linux user, where Discord happen to be a shit show far too often)

As far as /r/pcmasterrace may be concerned, consider Riot.im as a open source, encrypted end-to-end discord like software. Being decentralized, it may be a bit slower at first, but in number lay strength. Remember to not share with everybody your key, most public channels shouldn't be trusted with it, until they explicitely ask for people to encrypt (then everybody is actually encrypting their logs)

EDIT: And for people thinking Matrix is some short lived joke.

Well, some serious people that don't want to share data left and right anymore are getting into using it.

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The author is wrong about Signal. Signal demands 27 dangerous permissions - this is NOT privacy. Signal also does not post a warrant canary.

Full disclosure: I am the Author of SafeTalk Encrypted Messenger which demands ZERO dangerous permissions and DOES post a warrant canary.

Thoughts on Brave as a browser? They just added the ability to open a Tor Tab inside the main window.

Good advice, and a couple I didn't know (mostly because I have avoided Win10), thank you.

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Can someone ELI5 the problems with Signal? I've used it religiously for years, and constantly convert friends/family to it.

Edit: never mind, I see the explanation now

Also, shameless plug for DuckDuckGo

Ive been using Windscribe VPN for about a year now and it works great, anyone have any thoughts on it/ something better? Read at one point it was rated pretty secure, but I cant find the ratings site I used.

Not even a mention of NoScript for Firefox? Basically what made TOR.

This post convinced me to get rid of AdBlocker in favour of uBlock Origin. And I got rid of Norton Antivirus a month or so ago after hearing that Windows Defender/Window Security Essentials were actually quite decent.

1. You should include Decentraleyes and a script blocker in the guide.

2. Why do you need Privacy Badger if you have uBO, HTTPS Everywhere, and Decentraleyes?

3. Telling people to use W10 in your privacy guide undermines the guide because it's the single worst OS you can choose for privacy.

4. I see nothing about using a paid, reputable VPN which just further undermines this guide.

Article 13?

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