What tools or software do you recommend for maintaining anonymity online?
- Thread starter liulala
- Start date
To maintain anonymity online, consider using a combination of these tools:
- VPNs (Virtual Private Networks): Encrypt your internet traffic and hide your IP address. Recommended options:
- NordVPN
- ExpressVPN
- ProtonVPN
- Tor Browser: A privacy-focused browser that routes your traffic through multiple servers, making it hard to trace your activity.
- Private Email Services: Use secure, anonymous email providers:
- ProtonMail
- Tutanota
- Anonymous Payment Methods: Use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or privacy-focused coins like Monero for transactions.
- Secure Messaging Apps: Use encrypted apps for communication:
- Signal
- Telegram (with secret chats)
- Privacy-Focused Search Engines: Replace Google with DuckDuckGo or Startpage for searches that don’t track you.
- Nov 25, 2017
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RDP + VPN works for me
- May 14, 2019
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Hi!
1. Phone: Google Pixel with GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.
2. VPN
3. Messaging: Signal, Session, or Threema for encrypted communication.
4. Browser: Tor Browser or Firefox with privacy extensions.
5. Email: ProtonMail or Tutanota for encrypted email.
6. Payments: Use Monero for anonymous cryptocurrency transactions.
7. Extras: Orbot for routing traffic through Tor, Blokada for blocking ads and trackers, and Cryptomator for local file encryption.
8: For apps download: From Aurora Store and F-Droid.
9: Esim.
I think this is the basic.
1. Phone: Google Pixel with GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.
2. VPN
3. Messaging: Signal, Session, or Threema for encrypted communication.
4. Browser: Tor Browser or Firefox with privacy extensions.
5. Email: ProtonMail or Tutanota for encrypted email.
6. Payments: Use Monero for anonymous cryptocurrency transactions.
7. Extras: Orbot for routing traffic through Tor, Blokada for blocking ads and trackers, and Cryptomator for local file encryption.
8: For apps download: From Aurora Store and F-Droid.
9: Esim.
I think this is the basic.
- Jun 16, 2020
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RDP or VPN. Then use Telegram.
Proton mail is solid. You can also buy business mail with this. Additionally there are hosting and domain registars that take crypto
Repackage7618
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- Nov 5, 2022
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VPN won't be much help while using spyware tier software with systemwide permission and acces to your accounts, like anything from google, microsoft, apple etc… These companies are data farms, and they are love to work with authorites to deanonymize their users.
- May 27, 2016
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A good VPN.
Diabolink
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- Jul 30, 2020
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Hi guys
Only missing things I see from what other fellows wrote are :
-Don't use login method such as Gmail/Facebook etc. when asked to (websites/apps...)
-Set your browser to automatically reject cookies and clear history or entirely disable history
-Disable all browser trackers and other data collection in the settings
-Use a different mail for each service provider, such as socials medias (or don't use SM)
-Use a disposable temporary email for junk websites and other spammy subscription
(use DuckDuck to find a free one)
-Don't use browser (or OS/cloud) based password manager.
Reasons are obvious, but even a major company such as Apple can encounter a data breach and password leaks.
Good old pen and paper for your passwords is safer...
To be fair, even Linux is spying on you, Windows has (is?) a rootkit, iOS and Android does the same...
I guess now a day you'll never achieve complete anonimity, but you will be WAY less tracked combining all those things.
Hope this might help other fellows.
PS : GOS is great for anonimity, but at some point you'll have to create a second session/use another phone for stuff like banking apps which requires gApps...
And then you're tracked again, at best.
Only missing things I see from what other fellows wrote are :
-Don't use login method such as Gmail/Facebook etc. when asked to (websites/apps...)
-Set your browser to automatically reject cookies and clear history or entirely disable history
-Disable all browser trackers and other data collection in the settings
-Use a different mail for each service provider, such as socials medias (or don't use SM)
-Use a disposable temporary email for junk websites and other spammy subscription
(use DuckDuck to find a free one)
-Don't use browser (or OS/cloud) based password manager.
Reasons are obvious, but even a major company such as Apple can encounter a data breach and password leaks.
Good old pen and paper for your passwords is safer...
To be fair, even Linux is spying on you, Windows has (is?) a rootkit, iOS and Android does the same...
I guess now a day you'll never achieve complete anonimity, but you will be WAY less tracked combining all those things.
Hope this might help other fellows.
PS : GOS is great for anonimity, but at some point you'll have to create a second session/use another phone for stuff like banking apps which requires gApps...
And then you're tracked again, at best.
Repackage7618
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- Nov 5, 2022
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No true, some distoros have analytics data colection, but they are very trasnparent about it, and they are almost allways opt-in
Diabolink
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- Jul 30, 2020
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Maybe, but it isn't specified while or after installing the distro.
You have to manually opt out, as for any other OS...
Edit : Maybe some distros do warn you beforehand, but I installed none recently (CentOS/Ubuntu/Mint)
Repackage7618
Junior Member
- Nov 5, 2022
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Not true again, those corporate distros like redhat|fedora or canonical|ubuntu have opt-in analtyics, and they specifiy how they handle the data, community distros like arch, gentoo... don't have any, if you would like to contribute you need to install some aditional stuff for logging, again fully transparent about the data
- May 23, 2022
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Disposable email and VPN