[WannaBang]

Assuming you are already using a VPN and duckduckgo as a search engine

What browser do yall prefer to use and what extensions do you have installed to maximise security (hacking, phishing, ensure anonymity) online?

[joost]

Adguard is a great ad blocker. Stay away from extensions that need access to read/transmit content.



Another useful is 1password.


I don't use any other.

[BBinger]

Noscript, if you have a few sites you need to interact with that use Javascript. Otherwise disable it in the browser completely.

Noscript shows all sorts of weird being loaded from 3rd parties on all sorts of sites. The number of sites loading fonts and other garbage from Google is incredible (and this shit is mostly another form of tracking).

I am not sold on VPNs being very useful outside of specific limited purposes like torrenting or using public wifi access points. In the case of torrenting you are trying to hide yourself from an observer with limited resources. In the second you are wearing a condom because otherwise your machine would be spewing all sorts of information in plain text that anyone in your machine's broadcast range could listen to. In the second case a better bet is an SSH tunnel into a computer you control somewhere plugged into wired internet (This is also the solution for getting around internet filters).

I just don't see the point of allowing all your traffic to be monitored and cataloged by a service advertising themselves to people who don't want to be cataloged. If you are passing any actual secrets you should be encrypting those secrets locally with GPG and simply passing blobs of ciphertext along the wire. The more distance you but between encryption and the network, the better your security.

I suspect the popular focus on anonymity in particular over security in general is largely pushed as a red herring because shooting for complete anonymity online is a colossal sink of time and resources. It also pushes people into quick "solutions" like VPNs and Tor where they are effectively corralled into what they should be considering MORE hostile networks.

[Deepdiver]

Being lazy I use Bitdefender anti-malware, Bitdefender VPN and Startpage to anonymize Google searches... plus Protonmail for my trading accounts.

[redbeard]

This is the best site for all things privacy:

http://www.privacytools.io - encryption against global mass surveillance

Seriously, there's answers for everything on that one web page.

They recommend Firefox w/ the following privacy add-ons:

Privacy Badger
uBlock Origin
HTTPS Everywhere
DecentralEyes

[WannaBang]

Thanks a lot guys! I will check these out