This is original content. AI was not used anywhere except for the bottom right image, simply because I could not find one similar enough to what I needed. This took around 6 hours to make.
Transcription (for the visually impaired)
(I tried my best)
The background is an iceberg with 6 levels, denoting 6 different levels of privacy.
The tip of the iceberg is titled “The Brainwashed” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing to hide”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Apple
- TikTok
- PayPal
- Google Chrome
- CashApp
- Samsung
- Steam
- Microsoft Windows
- Ring (Security Camera)
- YouTube
- Amazon
- Discord
- Gmail
- ChatGPT
The surface section of the iceberg is titled “As seen on TV” with a quote beside it that says “This video is sponsored by…”. The logos depicted in this section are:
An underwater section of the iceberg is titled “The Beginner” with a quote beside it that says “I don’t like hackers and spying”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Telegram
- Authy
- Brave Browser
- Privacy.com (Virtual Cards)
- DuckDuckGo
- iMessage
- Proton Mail
- AdBlock (Browser Extension)
A lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Enthusiast” with a quote beside it that says “I have nothing I want to show”. The logos depicted in this section are:
An even lower section of the iceberg is titled “The Privacy Activist” with a quote beside it that says “Privacy is a human right”. The logos depicted in this section are:
- Monero
- GrapheneOS
- Vanadium (Web Browser)
- KeePassDX
- SimpleX Chat
- Accrescent
- SearXNG
- Aegis Authenticator
- OpenWrt
- Mullvad VPN
- An illustration of physical cash
The lowest portion of the iceberg is titled “The Ghost”. There is a quote beside it that has been intentionally redacted. The images depicted in this section are:
- A cancel sign over a mobile phone, symbolizing “no electronics”
- An illustration of a log cabin, symbolizing “living in a log cabin in the woods”
- A picture of gold bars, symbolizing “paying only in gold”
- A picture of a death certificate, symbolizing “faking your own death”
- An AI generated picture of a person wearing a black hoodie, a baseball cap, a face mask, and reflective sunglasses, symbolizing “hiding ones identity in public”
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Monero? Really? I used to mine it and know about it but just advertising crypto is just weird.
On browsers, as you put Chromium then also put Firefox or deMozillaed Firefox e.g. WaterFox.
I’d put Brave back to the 2nd layer due to relying on Chromium and being heavily marketed while gathering data for its crypto scheme. I’d also put Firefox on the 2nd or 3rd layer.
FF doesnt deserve much better than Brave as it sends telemetry, so both on tier 2. LibreWolf would fit for tier 3 or maaaybe 4.
Do you trust this preference panel on telemetry? If not why not? If you do believe it is legit what do you believe it remains problematic?
Lol, no. Here’s a list of all the things that panel doesn’t account for.
Also, there’s nothing close to even attempting privacy without strong fingerprint protection anyway, which I should have also mentioned. Vanilla FF allows a bright shining canvas fingerprint that Brave and Librewolf disable.
I’m not sure what’s that’s supposed to show as “there are built in settings for some of this stuff, it’s not complete and many settings are abstracted away from the user. Enter about:config” since it might be hierarchical, i.e. disabling a single telemetry toggle, either via Preferences or
about:configmight disable all the other ones. I haven’t looked specifically at that part of the code of Firefox but I’d trust more a Wireshark analysis than this since it doesn’t actually show (unless I missed that part, quite possible as it’s relatively long) that information does actually go back to Mozilla even while one has disabled all telemetry option.Fingerprinting is fair, in the sense that yes, if you do broadcast your userAgent and other public information you do narrow the potential search space and thus expose you as an individual more, yet has nothing to do with Mozilla.
But we’re taking about this in the context of this infographic. So we have to distill this down to:
Should FF be with, or above, Brave?
I assume we’re also taking about relatively low-barrier changes that most users can implement. So vanilla FF vs vanilla Brave, there’s a difference. Can we harden FF? Sure. Will 95%+ of people do that with Librewolf or 3 dozen other forks out there? Why bother when there’s nuance to be gained with other forks? So now vanilla FF stops being relevant.
And to be clear, I don’t use Brave unless I absolutely have to. I don’t love it, but vs. normie Vanilla FF, there’s a slight edge.
Up to you and OP but the fact that there isn’t even Firefox or LibreWolf or WaterFox but there is Chrome, Brave and Chromium is problematic to me. At the very least Firefox should be there and IMHO below Chrome.
Too bad I can’t upvote more than once. Thanks for making/sharing
f-droid? the guardian project?
You can replace the generated image by searching for images of “Goggle wool ski mask” IMHO.
I have a little bit of everything except As Seen on TV and Ghost.
I mostly have 3,4,5 and still use YT and Discord
I don’t like hackers and spying
brave
lol. lmao, even.
Why is Incogni bad?
Brave 🤮🤮🤮
Gold is great until you find out you can manufacture it and mass production was kept secret to avoid what happened with diamonds.
The day we can mass produce gold is the day we have a post-scarcity society. Full elemental transmutation, which would be required to mass produce gold, would also eliminate virtually all resource shortages.
We are already post scarcity
The scarcity of housing and food is artificial scarcity
Post-scarcity refers to most goods being able to be produced in abundance with minimal human labor. Even assuming that current food production fully falls under that umbrella, housing definitely does not, and it requires a lot more than just food and housing.
Housing it definitely does. There’s more empty houses than homeless people.
We’ve already arrived at post scarcity. All we need to do is this off the capitalists that keep unused housing empty. The scarcity is artificial
I was referring to the fact that building and maintaining housing is still a largely manual process, and requires a fairly large amount of human labor. Maintaining power, water, sewage, and other things required for modern housing requires an even larger amount of human work.
Whether there are enough houses to actually fit all the people is unrelated to this.
My point is we already did all that. Thanks to efforts from our ancestors, we no longer have a scarcity of housing.
What we do have is a bunch of oligarchs who have stolen our housing and are holding it for ransom
produce gold? please tell me how one “mass produces” a base element?
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Impressive, an academic grade meme.
You, sir/madam, are an artist and a scholar
Malwarebytes is good in my opinion and ads didn’t told me about it. I discovered it by myself. And nowdays ads can’t really tell me much because I block every single ad I just possibly can.
Yeah I’ve also heard malware bytes is good. I heard if from thenewoil.org.
Sadly, using small niche VPNs that might be more trusted makes you stand out more. It’s pretty unusual to have a Mullvad user on your server
They don’t rotate IPs as well so a lot of them are blacklisted… and don’t offer port forwarding anymore
I wish they could change IPs reguarly and add port forwarding back :-( - I would happily pay for their service again
Because 5€ for their current service is overpriced
Sadly, using small niche VPNs that might be more trusted makes you stand out more.
This probably doesn’t matter does it? Because being spotted as a mulvad, airvpn, etc user doesn’t make you more of a target for anything.
It just means that if they try to trace your connection back to you, they won’t find anything out, because you have a trusted zero-logging vpn.
Only think I could see is it could potentially be easier to track usage through the ip and assume it’s one person, but idk you could do that with anything if you look at the request timings, etc. It’s still just guesses.
Am i missing something?
It’s pretty unusual to have a Mullvad user on your server
Probably not on the usual sites people visit (youtube, etc, the big sites 99% of ppl go to exclusively), but I can see your point for any smaller site.
Because 5€ for their current service is overpriced
Airvpn provide a discount for each extra month you sign up for in bulk which is nice. It’s a great service in my opinion.
Sadly, using small niche VPNs that might be more trusted makes you stand out more.
This probably doesn’t matter does it? Because being spotted as a mulvad, airvpn, etc user doesn’t make you more of a target for anything.
I’m just taking a stab at this since I’m not entirely certain, but I would think that this would weaken you against fingerprinting since it depends on having many different semi-unique characteristics as you browse?
This ^
If you have 2 accounts on a website for example, you can be easily exposed if using a niche VPN. If on a more popular VPN, it’s not as likely as some other users probably use those as well
Realistically, on bigger websites it doesn’t matter as much - it would really depend on your config. You’re bound to be fingerprinted at some point anyways. It’s just too hard and too annoying to blend in.
At this point I believe we should just aim at randomizing our fingerprint every few seconds by sending BS rather than aiming to all have the same one
I don’t get how that’s relevant to what I said. That’s still something else
Your last sentence?
Check out IVPN, I find the service very similar but they also offer reverse split tunneling (choosing what programs go through the VPN).
Mullvad has that now. It usually works.
I can’t find the announcement and this issue is still open, can you share your source? https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/2808
That’s not port forwarding though 🤔 but still a nice thing to have I guess
What do you use instead of Mullvad now?
Going to get hate for it (justified), but NordVPN
Reasons: low price, and someone I know already had an account.
Could switch but most VPNs don’t have what I’m looking for (port forwarding), as well as IPs that often change and a solid userbase to mask traffic in smaller websites
Tested mullvad a few years ago and had some small connection problems, but the main issue was that it wasn’t usable in many websites due to their IPs being really abused (+ blocked from streaming services).
I don’t get why the second layer of Op iceberg is solutions having strong marketing budget. As far as I know (correct me if I’m wrong) Nord VPN has been audited by 3rd parties which confirmed its no-log policy. Also feel more anonymous when using a mainstream VPN because many users share the same IP. On the contrary if you use a VPN where only 2 users are on the same IP, seems easier to track you. Maybe I’m wrong but the hate for NordVPN does not seems justified.
The hate is mainly because they run current anti consumer techniques, such as:
- infinite fake sales (illegal is most countries)
- misleading fear mongering (VPNs don’t bring much security at all, and aren’t the only tool you need to achieve anonymity at all. Most people don’t need a VPN.) but this has some positive impacts: normies use VPNs so they become more accepted
- ultra aggressive misleading marketing: occasionally, false claims are made through sponsorships
They are also in a country where they can legally not provide any info to anyone (also in case of legal problem I believe), but it is a double edged sword, as it also means they can lie and sell our info and will never get sued over it
Such things makes it hard to trust, but the reality is they’re most likely fine to use because they already make a ton of money. They probably won’t risk to lose a business over this.
https://airvpn.org/ is a great option that is still privacy friendly and allows port forwarding. Still niche if you care about that, so may not be for you.
Interesting option as well, but some problems :
- Not audited iirc
- Port forwarding leads to identification of the individual account, and facts about this aren’t really explained. They admitted than in case they receive a legal order against someone who has port forwarding, they must give the identity because they can get it.
- Sure, changing ports frequently is a way around this but meh, I’d like to know what they will provide if that happens
I’ll add that their servers are a bit slow (I have a gigabit connection) and they don’t have a server in my country
Mullvad is one of the most popular VPNs with loads of other users wtf
Compared to other options like mainstream VPNs and proton, they don’t have much servers, so, users
I’m not confident thats a valid assumption
I use something from each tier except the As Seen on TV tier.
This is a modern art masterpiece. I’ve starred at it for hours while installing Arch Linux on my brand new T480.
install slackware
install gentoo
install haiku
install Yocto
