I recently tried to clean up my digital life. I switched to Linux and switched to GrapheneOS and made more use of my proton subscription to replace google. But I have a few questions :

I tried https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on Librewolf on my PC and Vanadium on my phone and it say I have a nearly unique fingerprint. Is the benefit of using a privacy focused browser neglected by the low userbase and unique fingerprint ?

I did not have a great digital hygiene before so I have a google account, meta… How do I clean this up ? Are services like Incogni any good or is it just marketing ?

Finally I wanted to use tails with persistent storage to use as a live system if I ever need to use a PC that is not my own to connect to my accounts. However, I don’t want the ISP to know I use Tor. I see it as a big “I have something to hide” flag for the ISP. But my understanding is if I install a VPN on tails it will be Tor over VPN (bad if I understand correctly) instead of VPN over Tor. Should I use something else than tails since I only want/need always on VPN with kill switch.

Thanks a lot for your help. I want to say the journey is much easier than what I anticipated. The hardest part is making people switch around me. The lobbying has started.

  • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Firefox Nightly + arkenfox userjs + uBlock Origin + Bitwarden as my daily driver.

    Been a couple years since I checked up on arkenfox still being good. I get flagged as a bot all the time and constantly get popups about WebGL (GPU fingerprinting) so I assume its working as intended for my threat model.

    Tails when I really care.

    Mullvad VPN as my regular VPN with ProtonVPN for torrents.

    GrapheneOS / NixOS as my OS.

    Proton Visionary for most cloud services except passwords and I don’t really use Proton Drive. I do use ProtonPass for unique emails to every provider.

    Kagi for searches / AI.

    Etesync for contacts because Proton didn’t sync with the OS last I checked.

    Backblaze B2 for cloud storage with my own encryption via rclone (Round Sync on GrapheneOS)

    Keypass for a few things like my XMR wallets and master passwords I don’t even trust in Bitwarden.

    https://jmp.chat/ for my mobile provider.

    Pihole with encrypted DNS to Quad9.

    https://onlykey.io/ for the second half of my sensitive passwords (Bitwarden, LUKS, Keypass, OS login). First half memorized.

    Its a lot. I burned myself out a couple years ago keeping up with optimizing privacy and this setup has served me well for 2 years without really changing anything. The cloud services are grey areas in terms of privacy but the few ads that leak through uBlock have zero relevance to anything about me.