Didn't realise that DNS over HTTPS was already in Firefox. Enabled!
Agree with much of what @pjgh said, though I haven't gone quite as far as they have. If you want an easy way to use Tor, Tor Browser is pretty good but doesn't protect any other traffic outside the browser
I don't really bother too much but am interested to hear from you all what the risks are apart from knowing my shopping / browsing history? What is the actual harm physically or financially, or is it just a case of you wanting privacy from someone up on high?
Most of us have mobile phones which are listening all the time and I have Alexa devices all over the house no doubt listening to everything. I looked at shaving soaps on the English shaving co yesterday, went on another PC to go on facebook and there straight away was a sponsored ad from ESC with pictures of the soaps I'd been looking at.
I don't really bother too much but am interested to hear from you all what the risks are apart from knowing my shopping / browsing history? What is the actual harm physically or financially, or is it just a case of you wanting privacy from someone up on high?
Most of us have mobile phones which are listening all the time and I have Alexa devices all over the house no doubt listening to everything. I looked at shaving soaps on the English shaving co yesterday, went on another PC to go on facebook and there straight away was a sponsored ad from ESC with pictures of the soaps I'd been looking at.
One that caught me recently ...
Someone in the street asked me if I knew where the Midland Hotel was. I kinda did but couldn't quite put my finger on it. I apologised and walked off. A couple of minutes later I thought, "Duh! Use the phone" (in fact, why didn't she?) ... anyway. I opened google maps and typed 'm' (just 'm') and the first result was 'Midland Hotel'.
In terms of what's on my phone, I have Siri turned off, I don't have google Assistant installed and google Maps does not have access to my microphone, nor does google Translate ... nor Messenger ... in fact, just Skype and Shazam.
One that caught me recently ...
Someone in the street asked me if I knew where the Midland Hotel was. I kinda did but couldn't quite put my finger on it. I apologised and walked off. A couple of minutes later I thought, "Duh! Use the phone" (in fact, why didn't she?) ... anyway. I opened google maps and typed 'm' (just 'm') and the first result was 'Midland Hotel'.
In terms of what's on my phone, I have Siri turned off, I don't have google Assistant installed and google Maps does not have access to my microphone, nor does google Translate ... nor Messenger ... in fact, just Skype and Shazam.
Another instance ...
We were discussing (not googling) winter tyres at work. Yep! Next time I get on a browser, there's adverts for winter tyres.
They're listening!!!
Both of these were before the end of January, which is when I applied the majority of the mitigations I mentioned above. I still believe the phone is the weak point. Even if you turn all that stuff off ... it is still listening, they're still collecting and they're still acting upon information collected.
While we're on big data and in another thread discussing the key issue of the day, where is big data in all this? They know where everyone is, so when folks are confirmed as having COVID-19, surely big data can figure out everyone who has been in contact with them over the last period, who they've been in contact with ... and get ahead of this.
... or is that the big conspiracy theory? The "vaccine" will be a tracker implant for everyone on the planet. We had similar murmerings back in 2009 with Swine Flu, but the internet, mobile phone sophistication and big data was nowhere near what it is today.
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