Privacy? I don't have anything to hide.

[Rednose]

A topic to share knowledge about how to improve your ( online ) privacy.
Let me know what you think about this

A nice tutorial/website ( also for non-techies ) to start with : https://www.privacytools.io

Greetz, Red.

[mchain]

Thanks Red,  useful.

[schmidthouse]

Thanks Red,  useful.

+1
Quite useful,

[polonus]

Thanks to Rednose for his valuable contribution and for sharing this with us and starting this here topic.
Very actual and now very much discussed subject. Our privacy and security are at stake,
and our privacy becomes ever so much endangered in order to grant better security,
this is a contradictio in terminis.

The best precaution you could take is not to put onto the Internet what you would not like to share in public.
In private on the Internet does not exist. There is a discrepancy on the Internet that will make privacy often cannot be granted,
not by you not abiding by the rules but by others offending or not taking care. So do not take any chances.
Another issue when we weaken encryption or backdoor it we will deliver insecurity to everyone, it is not a way forward.

polonus

P.S. To be aware of fingerprinting use this extension https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/
this to protect against the trickiest privacy threat for browser users.

[DavidR]

Certainly some nice tools and information.

[Rednose]

A browser add-on ( to consider ) to stop tracking, instead of Disconnect from the link I posted, is Privacy Badger : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Greetz, Red.

[Asyn]

Thanks Red, subscribed.

[Lotan]

is that Random Agent Spoofer a good safe addon to use?

[schmidthouse]

Thanks Red, subscribed.

Installed Privacy Badger
Unfortunately for those using IE or Edge, not supported

[essexboy]

Personally I do not give a monkeys ..  I do not use social media of any description, I have 2 e-mail addresses one for forums and one for the bank.

Ads support the free web sites and are generally unintrusive.  If they become too much I never visit the site again

 
Paranoia rules

[polonus]

Well even the use of some of these privacy protecting extensions comes at a price as they may share that what you have blocked with interested adware launchers. There must be a reason for them to be free extensions after all. So they have to go and help advertisers profile you, like for instance Ghostery does.

I more and more tend to bob3160´s opinion that privacy on the Interwebs is a non-existing animal. Prophetic words, bob!

´Global Village rulers´ have other plans for us, well Tor-net and darknet should be taken down, because a 1000 interviewed per 24 countries thought this was a good idea ( well more of a suggestion really), e.g. 85% of Indonesians thought in favor of such governance plans. With this in mind the future for the last vestiges of privacy are looking more and more bleak. Read: https://www.cigionline.org/internet-survey-2016

polonus

[bob3160]

A browser add-on ( to consider ) to stop tracking, instead of Disconnect from the link I posted, is Privacy Badger : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Greetz, Red.

Certainly not new
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19387.msg1108407#msg1108407

[Rednose]

is that Random Agent Spoofer a good safe addon to use?

Yes, I use - and recommend it myself
It is Open-Source software, so anyone can check the code : https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer

Greetz, Red.

[Rednose]

A browser add-on ( to consider ) to stop tracking, instead of Disconnect from the link I posted, is Privacy Badger : https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Greetz, Red.

Certainly not new
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19387.msg1108407#msg1108407

I remember your post Bob

Nowadays out of Beta, and I recommend it as well.

Greetz, Red.

[Rednose]

If you are looking for privacy software for different OS's ( = Operating Systems ), this is a great source : https://prism-break.org

Greetz, Red