Just a small heads up; ive noticed a uptick in links spread on Reddit, 4chan and even here to collaborative playlist from youtube, spotify and similar with very non or very few followers. All coming from new accounts.

Its a common way to fish for your personal data. They will make a new list and post it in only certain posts/threads and wait for you to subscribe with your account.

An easy way to protect yourself is by setting your phone or pc to open links in a second browser where you are not logged into anything. Set it to delete cookies on exit.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
    5•2 years ago

    Is Tor browser on the app store or are they all bullshit and you need to do it another way?

    • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
      5•2 years ago

      The iOS/Mac App Store? IIRC, not officially; there’s an unofficial (AFAICT) app for iOS called Orbot which makes all (?) traffic go through Tor, but I can’t vouch for it personally. For non-mobile OSes and Android, you should only download it from torproject.org (or build it yourself, if you’re a masochist)

      • @panic
        5•2 years ago

        Tor Project recommends Onion Browser for iOS (link)

        • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
          5•2 years ago

          I forgot about that one. Orbot is in case you want all traffic to go through Tor, but using Orbot with another browser is nowhere near as good at preventing fingerprinting as using Tor Browser

          • Arthur Besse
            6•2 years ago

            Also it probably isn’t actually a great idea to torify all of your connections (as I think Orbot for iOS does? Or maybe it can be per-app? I haven’t ever seen it on an iPhone myself.) including those from various apps that already know lots of things about you… it does hide your current IP from those services, but they already know what it was before so now they additionally know that you also use Tor.

            So yeah, better to use Tor Browser (or Onion Browser on iOS) so you know what you are and aren’t routing through Tor (and also benefit from its other privacy features like antifingerprinting and forgetting history/cookies/etc).

              • @panic
                2•2 years ago

                They will want a phone number, selfie of your full face and/or photo of goverment ID. Very invasive.

              • Arthur Besse
                3•2 years ago

                i disagree, i think it’s actually reasonable to decide you’d rather tell big social media sites that you’re a tor user than let them know where you’re physically located all the time (especially if you travel).

                • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
                  2•2 years ago

                  Right, I didn’t consider people who travel. That’s definitely one reason. (Although a person who’s concerned about privacy probably shouldn’t use any social media sites that require them to reveal their identity.)

      • ButtigiegMineralMap
        5•2 years ago

        I’m no techxpert like some comrades here, so yea I’ll probably just use the iOS one like a noob, thx for giving a good start point