How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by cloudyo » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

-Use a private cloud, so that your data is in your control.

We've actually developed a self-hosted private cloud solution as a substitute to Dropbox for exactly these reasons. Basically a private Dropbox at home (no complicated installation and no server needed)

We're currently in beta, could interest a few in this thread! https://www.duple.io/en/

The point is to have a product that works just like a Dropbox, as simple and straightforward, but that is actually private with no one interfering, playing, accessing or reading your data.

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by known » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

https://www.torproject.org/download/ is the best

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

#13

Post by known » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

https://archive.is/QiBdd

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by muterad_murilax » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

orangepanda wrote: post #4

> A few more suggestions: > “Create a different email address for every service you use,” wrote Matt McHenry. “Then you can tell which one has shared your info, and create filters to silence them if necessary.” Obligatory mention - for gmail you can suffix your email address with a service name by using +, e.g., johndoe+adobe@gmail.com will be delivered to johndoe@gmail.com. So if a service leaks your data or sells y…

"." works the same way.

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by _8j50 » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

cloudyo wrote: post #11

-Use a private cloud, so that your data is in your control. We've actually developed a self-hosted private cloud solution as a substitute to Dropbox for exactly these reasons. Basically a private Dropbox at home (no complicated installation and no server needed) We're currently in beta, could interest a few in this thread! https://www.duple.io/en/ The point is to have a product that works just like a Dropbox, as simp…

You know, ipfs helps a lot with this. If I can pay for someone to mirror whatever I host on my ipfs and tie it to some account it would be neat.

Good luck on your product. Seems promising. But I didn't like how your site loaded slowly (just a subjective feedback)

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

#16

Post by soulofmischief » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

Is this the level of technical competency needed to work at the New York Times? How much do they pay?

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by dt3ft » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

Oh the irony. Reading this article requires me to give away my e-mail address...

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by dt3ft » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

known wrote: post #13

https://archive.is/QiBdd

Thanks for the effort, but this link does not work. The host is not responding.

Edit: sorry, my bad, cloudflare 1.1.1.1 resolves it as 127.0.0.5. Someone ought to check that out...

Edit2: apparently this is a deep rabbit hole: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by snlnspc » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

soulofmischief wrote: post #16

Is this the level of technical competency needed to work at the New York Times? How much do they pay?

if you look up some info on this writer, I think you'll find competency was not considered

Re: How to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet

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Post by codedokode » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

What about fingerprinting? Fingerprinting allows to track browser even in private mode or if you anonymize your IP address. You should disable WebGL right now because it is absolutely unnecessary, almost never used and its only purpose is to collect information about your video card.