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.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
    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@lemmy.ml
        41·
        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
          31·
          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.)