Assuming you meet the fundamentals of online privacy [0], and you are unwilling to go the "degen" route (second-hand-wiped-paid-cash laptop < bare-bones OS < VPN routing < VM < VPN routing < Tor [1]).<p>Is there any[2] future in which true online privacy is achieved without legislation, through sheer innovation?<p>Is this future just for power-users (like now) or also for the average internet enjoyer?<p>Today it seems like you can't truly hide, you are just blocking ads.<p>[0] https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist<p>[1] Leaving plenty of steps for your imagination (or experience)<p>[2] I genuinely mean any
It's not a static world. Things are always changing. It's not the Data Wild West anymore.<p>As corporate robots get more and more entangled with the unintended and unpredictable consequences and costs of handling too much personal data, they start changing their behavior. It effects them as much as it effects everyone else. It effects their families, employees, customers, communities, countries etc etc. No one is immune<p>We scaled up systems so fast thanks to Moores law, cheap storage/network etc that issues scaled up faster than fixes. But past 5-6 years a lot more energy and resources are going into hardening, securing systems, quickly recognizing and reacting to issues, reducing the amount of unnecessary data being collected etc.<p>Learning takes time. That doesn't mean learning is not happening
laptop < bare-bones OS[3] < neighbors wifi[1] < (pfSense VM[0] + VPN) < (pfSense VM + multiple per-connection load-balanced anon VPNs + pfBlocker NG) < (Tails | Whonix Gateway) < (Whonix Workstation Live mode | Windows IE VM[2])<p>[0] With DNS trimming, forced DoH(TTPS), forced over VPN, no VPN no internet<p>[1] While inter-railing, tickets paid in cash<p>[2] <a href="https://www.amiunique.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amiunique.org/</a><p>[3] installed on an SD card or USB-C attached NVMe, with a dummy OS install on the built-in storage<p>And even then, the best anonymity is to just pretend to be somebody else, proxy through their home internet with stolen cookies and same browser version, using the same laptop model as them. Many 2nd-hand laptop and phone shops forget to wipe the previous owners data, or will 'forget' for a few extra dollars.
Some legislation is hurting privacy. For example it’s the legislation that makes it a crime to “extort ads” using bots.<p>We need a way to make the entire privacy invasion business not profitable.