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While activities like this may result in the author being less visible to a particular algorithm, I imagine that the instant dropoff from most networks and instant arrival in new networks would be a very strong signal of who they are. The more bizarre tricks you try to stay hidden, the more identifiable you (probably) are.
I do a pretty good job of hiding from everyone. And I don't use any "gadgets". Indeed, not using smartphones is a major boost to privacy. Otherwise, it's just multiple VMs, nested VPN chains, and Tor. All running on ~old i5 boxes that I bought used, for cash.
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After a brief skim of that README, I'm not 100% certain how Pi-hole works. Basically, it is a DNS server whose job is to lose requests to trackers, sort of like modifying the hosts file to fail to connect to facebook owned domains? And you use it by telling your router to use it as its DNS server, controlling it via a webpage it hosts on your private network?
It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
Huh? A "pile of privacy gadgets"? I do a pretty good job of hiding from everyone. And I don't use any "gadgets". Indeed, not using smartphones is a major boost to privacy. Otherwise, it's just multiple VMs, nested VPN chains, and Tor. All running on ~old i5 boxes that I bought used, for cash.
This condescension is so common and petty. It's like a real-estate broker laughing at someone for overpaying for a property, or a lawyer laughing that someone missed a court deadline they didn't know about.
Experts of complex systems generally know how to get what they want out of those systems. Finding ways for non-experts to do the same should not be sneered at.
Huh? A "pile of privacy gadgets"? I do a pretty good job of hiding from everyone. And I don't use any "gadgets". Indeed, not using smartphones is a major boost to privacy. Otherwise, it's just multiple VMs, nested VPN chains, and Tor. All running on ~old i5 boxes that I bought used, for cash.
> I do a pretty good job of hiding from everyone. ... it's just multiple VMs, nested VPN chains, and Tor. This condescension is so common and petty. It's like a real-estate broker laughing at someone for overpaying for a property, or a lawyer laughing that someone missed a court deadline they didn't know about. Experts of complex systems generally know how to get what they want out of those systems. Finding ways for…
Arguably a lot simpler than TFA goes on about.
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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?
For ex: Pihole + Unbound
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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
What if ads are hosted on the same origin as the content? I'd still need application adblocking then I guess
It is impossible to hide from big corporate. People tried (1). There is no was to block all tracking unless you go full luddite and unless every single person you know or simply met randomly does so too. Otherwise big corps would just create tracking profiles for you based on activity of others. Small recent example - remember that russian spying app FaceApp (iirk) which made aged pics out of your photos? Even if you…
Mirimir is totally trackable. And if you could (not likely) get data from Riseup and Keybase, you could find all his contacts.
But even then, none of that is linked to me in meatspace. Nobody I know in meatspace knows about Mirimir.
Hiding is not so hard if you just compartmentalize.
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> I do a pretty good job of hiding from everyone. ... it's just multiple VMs, nested VPN chains, and Tor. This condescension is so common and petty. It's like a real-estate broker laughing at someone for overpaying for a property, or a lawyer laughing that someone missed a court deadline they didn't know about. Experts of complex systems generally know how to get what they want out of those systems. Finding ways for…
Installing VirtualBox and Whonix is pretty simple. And just one VPN in the host machine, just so your ISP and its friends don't see you using Tor. Arguably a lot simpler than TFA goes on about.
The majority wouldn't know what VirtualBox and Whonix is, and that's before we start discussing what the benefits of privacy even are.
This is the disconnect we have with our peers who don't work in software/IT and why the right to privacy is being lost to jargon and technical expertise.
Privacy now is only a right to those who know how to employ it.