Voxel

Fingerprinting is a very difficult topic. A lot on how their algorithms and tech actually works is obfuscated and hidden from the people’s eye. I will be totally honest with you, I don’t think changing ur timezone will gian you much benefit, it might even make you stick out more since it doesn’t correlate with other information like your IP address, preferred language, etc.

There has been a browser extension that set ur browser values to match the IP address region, but it’s now history sadly.

Overall, I think if cchanging your timezone will benefit or harm you, comes down to very specific adversaries.

You seem to be unable to understand simple English, so I’ll end the conversation here.

This pretty much not adressing what I said at all. I use LineageOS myself and it’s miles better than the Stock Operating Systems of most if not all devices they support. But we shouldn’t mislead people, LineageOS is not fully “degoogled” and uses some Google services, even without the Google Play Services installed.

LineageOS is not “Google-free”. The OS still connects to various Google services by default, even without Google Play Services installed.

https://lineageos.org/ https://www.kuketz-blog.de/lineageos-weder-sicher-noch-datenschutzfreundlich-custom-roms-teil4/

To be fair, Discord has e2e encrypted voice calls using their “Dave” protocol.

https://discord.com/blog/meet-dave-e2ee-for-audio-video

Saily is by Nord Security, also the company behind NordVPN

Not a good idea. The value changes rapidly.

True, I just thought it might be more useful to OP than just the PDF + all other audits are listed too.

My point is that sharing an article by an irrelevant third party spreading misinformation due commercial interest is not a good pratice.

Share the audit then, not the tomsguide article.

Audit can be easily accessed here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit

Oh I’m aware of this, their is no way around this without revealing personal data :(

I think Tor with Tor Bridges (to obscure that you use Tor) is your best bet. Or using Tor over a VPN (using a VPN systemwide and then connect to Tor)

Everything else is just standard opsec, not leaking personal information and so on

Also, don’t use a E-Mail address or phone number tied to your real information, like your name or IP address. Because that is how many people got caught in the past.

You can’t use social media anonymously, it will all be pseudonymous aslong as you engage, if you consume social media passively, you can. But their have been reports that passive social media consumption is tied to negative mental health.

The article is very trustworthy, promoting VPN they have financial partnerships and calling them “best”

Security and data protection wise is GrapheneOS very superior to e/OS/, but it has the tradeoff that it doesn’t support MicroG which is less worse reimplementation of Google Play Services, while GrapheneOS only sandbox them and removes the priveleged access.

Google Captcha walled, amazing. /s

What is the source of the image?

Found it: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116176604411517279

Glad to see most Germans are against.

Your technical and legal understanding seems limited. I personally work in the IT space and am a hobbyist in legal matters, in particular data protection.

I’m pretty sure there was nothing they could’ve legally done to protect the payment information.

It’s not a “bad look” for Proton; instead, it’s just people being confronted with reality.

If you commit a crime, law enforcement will be after you, and if your operational security sucks, there will be no service that can counter that.

The Brave browser has much better blocking capabilities with the goal of offering all of the uBlock Origins features, while Cromite has an ABP integration which has weaker and less support for advanced filterlists. The default filterlists selection is also quite questionable. A blocked script can no longer track you.

Brave’s fingerprinting protection measures are technically speaking superior than Cromite, the only reason that CreepJS can’t be fooled by it all the time (I’ve done my own tests and it fails sometimes) is that it has specifically been designed to adapt to its protection mechanisms, which hasn’t been done for Cromite.

You can also harden Brave to increase its level of protection:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#brave

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/#recommended-brave-configuration

Don’t forget to mention that Mullvad Browser is supposed to be used with a VPN to provide full protection

Source: Direct conversation with a MB developer

Creepjs is not a valid metric for fingerprinting protection.