nigga pls nordvpn dashlane really ?

the best privacy tool is just turning off the internet
also password managers are such a meme

I will give my opinion on whatever I know or tested!

The basic step should be going linux or bsd! Otherwise anything else makes little difference since they would fingerprint and cross reference you either way with 0 effort!

Firefox is ok but since google stopped paying them 95% of their revenue (bribe money for setting google as the default search engine) and now they need to make money themselves and they withdrew from "no tracking and privacy" promise, you can find they changed it soon after the court decision on google monopoly, available on internet archive - it is time to fork or harden! Arkenfox or whatevet that config is called...

Librewolf is cool, I have a menu to pick my profile each time I start it up so I can have my eromanga separately, and it has anti fingerprinting stuff by default by spoofing technical info I think like screen resolution, so they can't go from anything but already existing cookies or same IP across sessions. I am not too sure though.

I don't like brave. If they close down Chromium like they recently decided to do to some aspects of Android then it is dead unlike base Firefox.

Not much opinion on search engines. I use teh Duck. If they have an onion domain then they must be at least ok. Heard of SwissCows and Qwant but never tested.

Not much opinion on password managers. I am used to keepassxc for my darknet credentials (available in pacman) and notes. On the clearnet I have everything within my Librewolf. Since all devices are encrypted then I fear nothing keeping it handy in there. You can also run a server for synchronising your Firefox account offline by which I mean you can run your own sync server for passwords and since Librewolf is a fork then it will work with it too. It is a bit better than rsync since it would give separate devices identities instead of pretending to be the same device I think.

For VPNs I would make my own by planting a little machine at my relatives house on the other side of earth ideally and telling them what it is and that I would contribute to electricity bill. Second would be planting a RAT to someone in some Gabon type of country or growing a botnet in general. Third would be renting a service like from Mullvad but since they are registered in Sweden then I would not expect privacy too much. I paid for a 2 year code of Surfshark but I don't use it for anything besides basic identity masking. Surfshark actually offers OpenVPN credentials too and you can add them easily with no proprietary apps to your connection methods.

And any email is bad as long as they discriminate you for using TOR while registering
I use cock.li as my anonymous mail. Secondarily Proton but they work with police, so that is very bad. Do they let you register with TOR?

>>154820
librewolf is the one i use too, but the development team... they removed the best search engine (4get) for privacy because of their political stance, but you can always add it back. still sugz
here's a related link too: https://wiki.shadow.lifestyle/browsers.xhtml

also, no mention of plugins? uMatrix to turn of javascript and css to bypass sites that force you to accept cookies and LibRedirect to redirect to a more respectful frontend of corpo websites like youtube or google translate

i still prefer not to go online as much, or at least on respectful websites. i've already downloaded most of what i need, and i never saw any use for vpns, they seem like snakeoil to me

Is this a bot or an indian?

>>154821
VPNs are when you don't want to visit a random website with a real IP, and I need it for mass torrenting relatively safely and ban evasion
Besides you can't browse melonbooks or source materials on nico and many more without a jap IP

>MyAllSearch: A UK-based search engine offering privacy with no cookies or tracking.
>DuckDuckGo: A widely-used, US-based search engine that prioritizes anonymity.
>NordVPN: A reliable VPN service offering strong encryption and a large server network.
>Surfshark: A budget-friendly VPN with a solid privacy policy and a wide array of features.
>Mullvad: A privacy-centric VPN that has passed no-logs audits, ensuring your anonymity.
>ProtonVPN: A secure VPN provider from Switzerland with a strict no-logs policy.
>ExpressVPN: A leading VPN service that has undergone multiple no-logs audits and security assessments.
>StartMail: A secure email provider offering burner aliases and end-to-end encryption.
>ProtonMail: A Swiss-based email service renowned for its zero-access encryption.
>Mailfence: A customizable, secure email provider with full encryption and privacy features.

im not gonna give you an opinion, i will just tell you to kill yourself okay?

>>154824
Rude!

I'll never understand password managers. What happened to good ol' pen and paper?

>>154821
wuts 4get?

>>154827
4get is a metasearch engine, kinda like searx but it doesn't suck

>>154817
Nigga what. All the search engines, emails, and password managers posted are certified homo.

For search engines I just use a redirector extension. I heard good things about yacy though. For emails I would have said cock li but I think they got pwned (you shouldn't be using it for anything sensitive anyways). Online password managers are a meme. Just use pen and paper or keepassxc.

>>154821
I used librewolf for a while but it became too annoying to match Tor browser's fingerprint so I switched back to Firefox ESR
but I hate mozilla with a passion, they're barely better than Google, I'd use webkitgtk if it worked
>>154826
I tried keepass twice, both times I forgot the master key. once I even wrote it on a piece of paper, then lost that too.
now I just use passwords.txt
not very safe but at least it's compatible with my goldfish memory

>Is this a bot or an indian?
a bot

if it's a bot then which one is it shilling? my guess is the UK search engine that probably just instantly reports you to the feds if you search for or click anything resembling a girl under 18.

>>154820
>Secondarily Proton but they work with police
i understand why you'd think that's bad but let's be fair for a moment: anything that is based in a country has to follow that country's rules and i dont think there's a country in the world that doesnt allow its own police to demand information from email providers, meaning all email providers work with the police because they simply have no other choice. To say proton working with the police is bad implies you'd rather have them disobey the law and consequently get immediately shut down
The only way to achieve an email that doesnt snitch to cops is to have criminals run it in secret, but you shouldnt really trust such a thing (not to mention finding a secret email provider like that may be very hard)

>>154867
maybe just use a disposable email, or not use one at all?

>>154851
The search engine will report you to the feds and sentence you to 20 years in prison for hate speech because you looked up "immigrants are raping people"

>>154867
I think the problem is that they stored the IP's in the first place and practically won't let you register over tor without doxing yourself

>>154867
>The only way to achieve an email that doesnt snitch to cops is to have criminals run it in secret
you don't need criminals, you just have to a) use PGP b) use a native FOSS mailer (NOT webmail) - then the provider can be the CCP itself, the mails are still private
unfortunately nobody uses PGP and everybody uses webmail, so the premise collapses quickly (if one party to the conversation is compromised, so is the whole conversation)

>>154878
what do you mean with "mailer"? something like thunderbird?

>>154819
@_@

>unfortunately nobody uses PGP
That's because most people don't understand what it is nor how to use it - including me ＼（＾Ｏ＾）／

i'm one of the guys who started sending encrypted posts in the previous pgp thread, something i dont understand is how can kleopatra know which key to use when decrypting a message since i had like 12 in my keyring

>>154883
I would guess it tries each and there is some hash solution that marks it as correct decryption attempt if true

>>154879
I guess so
I use betterbird because it has no mozilla spyware

>>154867
Correct. That is why I think if they don't let me use it entirely through TOR then they must be bad! Cockmail lets me use entirely TOR so it is my favourite anonymous mail. They can work with the cops but if they let me use entirely TOR then they are decent.

>>154879
yes, officially it's "mail user agent"

>>154878
I don't really like the built in pgp extensions in mail clients, I've heard they're unreliable. I think encrypting a text file and sending it as an attachment is a better idea. Also what do you guys think about age encryption?

>>154817
What a strange post. As we all know, best privacy tool is just turning off the computer all together!

>>154867
From what I understand Proton is as private as it can get for any online service provider in the Western hemisphere.

But I guess if you live in the West you could sign up for online services based in countries like Russia or Angola or some shit, countries that aren't a part of Western treaties and will not cooperate with Western authorities. Then again, if you use a Russian email host or something the FSB might plant CP in your cloud and blackmail you.

>>155274
I don't have a cloud and I liek CP so that isn't an issue

>>154884
>it tries each and there is some hash solution that marks it as correct decryption attempt if true
I looked it up and this is the behaviour if the message was encrypted with a "hide recipient" option, otherwise the message itself should hold the id of the public key used to encrypt the message!

>>155274
>>155324
Free CP? Sign me up!