[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Questions & Answers] bober10113:
leave it up to them yandex russians to protect your privacy.

but seriously. the most dangerous thing you can do is acctualy think that the steps you take are really making your life private.

vpns just channel the traffic to an other end point and does the queries for you then sends the data encrypted to you.

the queries are still made on the www. account info and all things you store or access online is still accessible by the www. vpn companies just fool you into thinking that the data being relayed to you is the only weak link. plus the free ones mine your data.

best thing you can do is not use social media. its made to invade your privacy. its designed to fool you into giving as much of your personal life info as possible and sell your habits to add companies so they can in turn send you quatered adds.

the minute you use the internet you void your privacy regardless of how you think the measures you take are working or effective. and what are you going to do about the 100 and 1000's of companies being hacked and their data mined and sold every month? you cant do anything about that. plus its much better for hackers to get their info from a big company because you get much more than just 1 dude that does his banking online and chat every now and then.there is no money to be made from 1 individual.

if you think people are specifically after you, you are gravely being fooled by the vpn ad campaigns that have been poping up everywhere about "privacy".( they must hide the fact that they also get hacked very well.its just that the media hasint picked up on it yet)

anyways who want to waste time on an end user/device?

when again you just need to hack equifax like a few years back and you get the motherload instead.

all in all I've abandoned the thought of real privacy. its futile.( even abstinents dosen't work because companies and governments don't secure customer data correctly. and unfortunately if you are born, you must be branded and labeled and filed away.)

live your life. just know that what ever you do you can't escape big brother and your data from being leaked by the big companies that say that it is secured with them.

the whole infrastructure relies on them companies and the habits we have been embraining ourselves and our children with is the problem.. we live our lives intertwined with the services and devices that we take for granted and have clicked next next next through polices and consent forms for over 25 years now whithout even giving it a second though. we're in over our heads now and it is a little late to back out. this was al dine by design and all voluntarily. its crazy how marketing is evil.

a cabin in the woods is the easiest and most secure thing one can do. anything shy of that is a waste of time and a false feeling of privacy.

anyways I'm going around in circles now.

one thing for sure is that the criminals we think that we need cover from are not who we think they are.

they are the FCC dealing with big telcos, they are the big media giants spewing false information and fabricates facts. they are in our governments in the highest ranks pushing hidden agendas and most of all they are the big social media platforms remodeling our society each day under our noses at our expense.

but hey this is not new. the internet police is just tring to make you think it is and spend 9.99$ a month for a vpn lol

good luck.