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Old December 26th 17, 04:38 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default A usable free proxy server for Windows users (emphasis on usable!)

On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:40:47 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

Basically, why - other than a general objection to being tracked and
similar?


I want privacy just like everyone else wants privacy.

Why do you brush your teeth every day? Didn't you just brush them this
morning?
Why do you wash your hands every day? Didn't you just wash them yesterday?=
Why do you close the bathroom door? What are you hiding?
Why do they have a "wait here" line at the pharmacy?
Why do you close your bedroom window blinds at night? Are you hiding
something?
etc

I, and most here I suspect, would rather not be tracked, have
my info. gathered (e. g. browsing and purchasing habits), and so on -
but we all have various levels of tolerance of what we'll accept for the
sake of convenience and free information.


Of course we all practice privacy every day. When you tell someone at a
party that their zipper is down, you often whisper it - right? You don't
yell out to them so that everyone can hear you.

When you go to the doctor to have a wart removed from your butt, the doctor
closes the door to the room, right?

When you call up to ask a product question and they ask you for all your
identification questions, you either ask why they need it just to answer a
question - or you do like I do - and give them bogus information.

When you buy a trinket at the local toy store and they ask for your phone
number, do you actually give them your *real* phone number? I don't.

They don't need my phone number to sell me that trinket.

Other than "all of the following", are there any of the following you're
more or less concerned about.


Privacy is like pulling up your zipper.
You do it all the time out of habit.

o owners of websites knowing your identity (various interpretations,
from name to credit card details) when you visit them


I never use a credit card on the web. Never. If I must buy something, I use
the telephone. And I never log in with my real name. Nor from my home ISP.
I am on a rotating VPN 100% of the time. Even now. It's just a habit, like
pulling up a zipper on a pair of pants or a skirt.

o third-party entities (search engines, ISPs, VPN/proxy operators, ...)
knowing where you visit


I use Duckduckgo and never use Google. I use the MVP Hosts file to block
all the doubleclick-like tracking. I clear every browser with every session
either automatically or by having the start page be the browser clearance.
Chrome Start Page: chrome://settings/clearBrowserData

o second or third party entities knowing what you buy, either on their
own site (probably impossible to stop them collecting that!), or on
other sites


I have all third-party cookies turned off and I would turn off cookies and
scripting if it were pragmatic - but it's not. So I clear cookies on all
browsers that will do it automatically upon exiting or upon opening.

o anything else


Basic privacy 101. I use a different browser for each web page.
So, for example, if I go to Forums.whatever.com, then that browser is
*only* for that web page.

If I then want to go to whatever.forums.com, then I use a different browser
for that.

Each web page I visit gets its own browser.

There is never any cross contamination except for my duckduckgo browser,
which, by necessity, has to run the searches and then I use a separate
browser (generally the Tor Browser Bundle) to check out the results of
those searches.

This is basic privacy practice that you just get used to if you set up
Windows with links. Links make it all easily possible (aka shortcuts).

(Not that I have _any_ answer to your question, but knowing which
aspects _you_ are concerned about - and their order of importance -
might help those who _can_ answer, and even help _you_ to decide
[/evaluate responses if any].)


All I care is about basic privacy 101 on the net.
Basic stuff that is easy on Windows since it's all done with shortcuts.
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