/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>215172
Great thread, thanks for compiling.

Wanted to add that Noscript is also incredibly useful.
https://noscript.net/

Takes a bit to gradually "train" it what to block or allow, but it's very enlightening just how many different addresses a lot of websites are connecting & connecting you to, and how they connect in "layers". Allow one & suddenly 20-30 more are trying to connect. Also works to circumvent anti-adblock by allowing you to disable that for a particular site, while still blocking the actual ads.

clown world urgency alert

Good start to the thread, OP. Might as well throw my 2¢ into the mix.

I highly suggest either Opera or Pale Moon as browsers.

https://www.palemoon.org
Pale Moon is more privacy friendly, but it doesn't provide support for cutting-edge web technology, which can break a lot of sites. Use only if that's a trade you're willing to make.

https://www.opera.com
Opera is based on Chrome, and features it's own independent extension store, built-in VPN, data saver, battery saving mode, and lets you pop out videos (even on /mlpol/) into a hovering window you can watch while browsing other sites, among other things. Highly recommended for daily use, and a good backup browser if Pale Moon is your main browser.

As for extensions, I've got a few choice picks I think no Anon here should browse the web without.

uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
For Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
A firewall for your browser that blocks most sites from doing anything without your permission. This includes blocking ads, cookies, scripts and videos from being sent to your browser.
Essentially a more fully-featured, graphical version of NoScript. I encourage any NoScript users to give uMatrix a try, unless you're using Pale Moon, in which case NoScript remains your only option.
This extension can break sites like YouTube, but is usually fixable with just a few clicks. Always be ready to allow scripts and videos if things stop working.

uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
For Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Pale Moon, Thunderbird, Safari, and Edge.
A very good adblocker that can also bypass underhanded anti-adblocker measures with little to no issues.
Developed by the same guys behind uMatrix; both extensions can coexist without issue.

Decentraleyes https://decentraleyes.org
For Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Pale Moon.
Prevents you from being tracked by CDNs by emulating a CDN right on your browser and intercepting any calls a site may make to one.
A CDN (Content Distribution Network) is a service a site can use that hosts important scripts and resources so that the actual site itself doesn't have to; outsourcing the load on the site's server, in other words. Of course, this opens you up to being tracked, and blocking CDNs outright is guaranteed to break most websites. Decentraleyes tackles this by pointing all CDN requests right back at the browser, where it hosts most of the resources the CDN would normally provide. It also has a paranoid mode to forbid CDN requests, even if Decentraleyes doesn't have what a site needs.

I downloaded and installed Tor a week ago, it seems better HideMyAss, which is what I usually use.
So am I uncensorable and untrackable now?

>>215284

>untrackable
your isp will still know you're using onion, look into bridges if you're in a situation where you need to keep that hidden

>uncensorable
your isp can block tor, again, bridges if it matters. after that it's up to how much you trust the onion network in keeping your anonymity. read about alphabet involvement in tor, most people use it anyways though. look into tails.

>hidemyass
it's like you want the alphabets to neck you

>>215194
>Pale Moon and uMatrix
eMatrix (ηMatrix) is a fork with pm support.
https://gitlab.com/vannilla/ematrix

>>215194
Containerise is also a good one. You can open sites in their own container, they can't access cookies, etc of anything outside the container. It piggybacks on the work that was done in firefox to keep facebook isolated from other pages, etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/

BTW, how did you bold the text?

>>215415
Apparently, mozilla came out with their own version of this, I'll have to migrate over.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/?src=search

>>215172
Thanks for the list OP!

>>215415
Ctrl + B. You can view the different formatting rules by clicking on Options, then Customize Formatting.

>>215416
Ok, I tried out the mozilla one. The mozilla one looks better, but containerise has better functionality. You can specify websites to always open in a container automatically, and use wildcards.

Bump. Beause this thread is relavent these days and I have yet had the time to ask the questions I want for this thread.

>>224624
Privacy has always been relevant.

>>215172
>https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
>lists cyberghost as romanian
>really bought by london / israeli holding company
>no wonder why I got jewed

>>215194
I have to up my opsec game, but basically, all these browser extensions don't mean much unless you are running on a machine or VM dedicated to privacy. If you have anything in the background, it's probably leaking your identity constantly.

What's a good guide to get into VPNs for a guy who doesn't have very much experience with computers?

>>224662
I assume that you're talking about connecting to and using a VPN and not hosting one yourself.

Step 1: First you need to pick a VPN provider and sign up for their service. In general you'll need to pay for the service if you want service that is both secure and of high quality. I've been using Private Internet Access for the past few years and have all around been happy with their service. I've also read very good things about NordVPN and I'm tempted to give them a try for awhile. Private Internet Access has a neat payment option where you can pay without actually giving them any payment information by simply providing an email address and the codes for assorted gift cards from retailers like Walmart or Starbucks. You could buy those gift cards with cash if you wanted to keep your subscription to the VPN service hidden from your bank and credit card provider. However their cheapest plans are multi-year subscriptions that are paid via credit card. PIA also catches some flak from some reviewers because they're based in the US. IIRC NordVPN is based in Panama. Read around for reviews of different VPN providers to make your own decision. You will generally want a VPN that does not keep logs. That way the VPN provider has no details of your activities that they can be compelled to surrender if a government takes hostile action against them.

Step 2: Once you've picked a provider and have signed up for their service, then they'll provide you with some credentials. This will either be a username/password or a certificate file. To access the VPN, you'll need to install a VPN client program on your machine. A lot of the big name providers like PIA or Nord have their own client programs that you will download from them, but some will have you connect via a third party client program like OpenVPN client. Using PIA as an example, you'd run the program and input your username and password to log yourself in. I'm fairly confident that it's pretty much the same way for most of the other big names. If they gave you a certificate, then you'd point the client application at the certificate instead of inputting a username/password.

3: Once you're logged in, you'll have the option to select which of their VPN servers to connect to. Once connected, your computer's network traffic will be redirected to the VPN server via an encrypted connection. You'll want to test the VPN by connecting to some site like ipleak.net to verify that your connection is indeed being routed through the VPN. At that point the world at large will think that your connection originates from the VPN server, and they have no way of tracking the connection back to you. Or at least the vast majority of observers can't. The big nation-state tier players might have some nasty tricks up their sleeves. Still, at this point you will have taken reasonable precautions to secure your connection.

That's pretty much it for the basics. In the options for the client software, you may have the option to pick alternative encryption algorithms or key sizes. Upgrading those may provide increased protection at the cost of performance. They may also have options to automatically connect to the VPN when you turn on your computer.

Also realize that diverting your traffic through a VPN will add some degree of negative performance to your connection. The big names may provide enough bandwidth to make the degradation unnoticeable while browsing websites or streaming video, but you will notice increased latency if you were to try to play a game while connected to the VPN. One other downside is that some services deny service to those using VPNs. For example, 4chan has most VPN servers banned from posting. I'm not implying that you'd want to post there, I'm simply providing an example.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

tl;dr
1: Sign up with a VPN provider
2: Download their client and login with the credentials that they gave you.
3: use the client to pick a server to connect to.

>>224662
>>224778
Personally I'd recommend Express as /ourboi/ Sseth is sponsored by them, and if they'd sponsor him they're probably uncucked.

I've used it for a couple of years and it's highly reliable. If a government tries a new method to block VPNs Express is usually back in just a couple of days.