What is your routine when it comes to surfing on the internet? Do you remain anonymous at all times? Is there only one browser you use or a few? I’m quite new to this stuff and wonder what a pirate’s usual routine is. I wonder if I should get the onion browser and use that only, or alternate between opera and the tor browser. Also, what efficient and smart methods do you guys use? (no i’m not fbi lol, im a 16 year old loser)

    • @SunshinerOP
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      11 year ago

      i-i-i- swear!! im not fbi man :(((

  • @leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    it would be a good idea to be somewhat anonymous at all times. with a vpn at least.
    not so much a piracy as much as a privacy question.

  • Lenin enjoyer🏳️‍⚧️
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    51 year ago

    I pirate console games, so I cant speak, I use firefox and use google for search, so do as I say and not as I do. Google sucks and is spyware. Look up some other stuff, but I can say that DuckDuckGo is not private as advertised.

  • MexicanCCPBot
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    41 year ago

    If you live in the west you should definitely use a VPN while pirating or even browsing. Especially as a leftist. But I’ve read a lot about the popular VPN services having sus connections/being spooky, so I can’t recommend any particular services. If you live in a country where nobody gives a shit about online piracy or where it’s legal, like another user said, a VPN is not needed. But for privacy reasons it might be absolutely necessary everywhere. You don’t know what your country’s security priorities are, they could still be monitoring you if your interests are more political than the average person’s.

    An alternative to a VPN service could be Tor, but apparently most exit nodes are run by intelligence services, and your IP is not anonymous to them, so I also have my doubts about them being 100% safe for home browsing.

    For absolutely critical anonymity I would use a burner laptop with no hard drive, a privacy-focused Linux distro running on RAM, Tor, all-burner web accounts registered under a burner phone, and public Wi-Fi connections on public places away from home. If possible I would script all my internet activity to run automatically when booted without my intervention, so I can pretend to do something else while everything runs.

  • @knfrmity
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    31 year ago

    In terms of my browsing I’m not nearly as careful as I should be. At least I have my browsers set up to deny trackers and all possible cookies, and ads and telemetry are mostly blocked on a network level (Pihole). In terms of downloading, seedboxes are interesting, especially in conjunction with the “Arr” apps.

  • @darkcalling
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    31 year ago

    I’m not going to reveal my normal routine for internet usage as it’s quite elaborate and technically advanced.

    That said. for piracy I would recommend if you live in the west in a nation that enforces copyright policy that you use a VPN for downloading and for browsing to the websites in question. No reason not to at that point. Since you can bind qBittorrent to a specific network adapter you can continue using the VPN passively and even drop it to resume out of VPN browsing, gaming, etc.

    If you don’t live in the west or live in a place that doesn’t give a fuck about copyright enforcement then save your money if your only worry is copyright trolls and notices. If your worries are government agencies I’d do sensitive browsing (this site for instance) via Tor.

    As to efficient and smart. qBittorent has a built in search function you can enable. Download Jacket on top of that and configure it and you have quite a bit of power for finding things.

  • @big_spoon
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    21 year ago

    -using linux without systemd (as a start)

    -browsing with firefox and sometimes with librefox

    -check lemmygrad, social media

    -read web forums and stuff

    -download anime, movies or music legally ¬_¬

    • @SunshinerOP
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      21 year ago

      ive heard of firefox. Is it better than google chrome? Regarding privacy and such. I use opera and might try to switch to something more incognito

  • @Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    For regular activities, a regular browser without VPN is fine

    For piracy, VPN is strongly advised (unless you live in Russia and some other jurisdictions where nobody cares)

    For cosplaying cool hackers, go with Tor and onion sites (otherwise it’s most likely an overkill). Also, DO NOT download large files over Tor if you don’t have to. It’s slow, it loads the network with already limited bandwidth, and it can drop suddenly.