This is a bit of a misnomer. No one PC can be fully anonymized or fully private, even if the PC provided fake data points, they will still be technically fingerprinted. Having said that, having a browser that tries to spoof stuff like LibreWolf, Tor or IronFox is decent.

The gains in using a VPN, among other best practices is that helps --assuming people do not log on to something like Google-- is to minimize the fingerprint of the PC to you, as a user. Assuming one trust their VPN provider, helps.

Tor leverages the point of having all users look and be fingerprinted mostly as the same, so you get lost in the shuffle and crowd.

Been using uBlock for what feels like 15 years now. I find it weird and off putting when using other people’s PCs without it. So many ads and so much garbage everywhere. Same when I watch network TV.

From experience, if the drive starts making clicking noises, often, and it never did before, I agree, it could be a sign that the drive is starting to die.

Best practice at that point is to make a backup of vital files. No one wants to wake up one day to a dead drive without a backup.

Even now, on one my machines one of the drives is starting to switch to READ only, which usually means something is failing and the PC tries to minimize damage by switching to that. I van fix it with a chsk on terminal but I assume its days are numbered.

OP needs to backup. Just in case.

Under Ironfox settings, enable the install extensions option. It blocks installing them by default in order to decrease attack surface. You will be able after that.

Nice.

Yeah, except that most people are lazy and will default to whatever is most convinient, even if it goes against their best interest. People use social media services that creates entire psychological profiles on them simple because they friends are on it.

If we go by the WEF, then certainly before 2030.

At least in Canada, friends at the bank I used to work in IT were briefed in 2024 that CBDCs were coming down the pipe at some point in the future.

I tend to turn off JavaScript for most sites and I found enabling and disabling it on this browser to be a pain. Has that changed?

Also, it is webview, so you cannot harden it unless you root and download a hardened webview.

I use Freetube on PC and some NewPipe fork AND Freetube on Android. The Android one has been breaking as of late. :-(

Maybe. They could just let it rot. Let it break over time. Thus pushing people onto the new site.

For those wondering, Mullvad is only good if you change nothing about the browser, if you do, then you will he easily fingerprinted. As the number of people who use Mullvad is already small as it is. You will br like a spotlight in the dark if you add other extensions.

Librewolf on PC, or Tor, if you want to go full on; And Ironfox on Android. Use LibRedirect as a search provider and if you use Searxing, it will rotate all your searches to different instances every time.

I did, and that was a while ago. However, I would say that it would depend on what your degree is on. I had to do a lot of writing so it was fine for 99.99% of the time.

At one point all my assignments were handed in PDF format. A practice that I still do today as a professional. If you must hand in via Word, you may have some issues unless you run MS-Office somewhere. As there is always the risk of minor formatting issues.

For those rare times, maybe use their library or comp. Lab.

Local walk-in store, if possible?

Librewolf is better if you are going to use a few extensions. Mullvad like FlTor are meant to be used as is, out of the box.

What is your definition of Fascist, here?

It seems to get tossed around at everything, these days. Not a fan if the NSA either, nor the Patriot Act, either.

Yeah, so what if I want to hide a bunch of Jews in my attic?

I did not know that, thanks. The reason I use Tab Stash is because I can use my Nextcloud instance to move the tabs/bookmarks automatically. As for privacy reasons I do not use FF sync.

Moving a file seems like more work and more moving parts as I use multiple machines and different OS’es on the same machines.

They do perhaps know, Firefox did have about 27%+ of the market at one point and people outside of the USA are more likely to know about it. Nevertheless, FF is currently about 3.25% of the total browser base. That is still about 160+ - 200+ million users.

What kind of bullshit is this?

God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, “Do no evil.” Ha, good times.