Was using 4get for a while but the instance seems to be broken, gonna try ecosia out for a while.

If you don’t want anyone to read your emails the best method is just to encrypt the main text with PGP keys, note you cant really encrypt the email’s metadata though . If you’re looking for a good email experience I would 100% recommend buying a custom domain I love mine.

Not really i don’t use any services that need it.

Anything you pay for will only be as anonymous as the payment method you use, things like bitcoin are not really anonymous since buying bitcoin without know your customer regulations is hard. If your adversary has the resources or your threat model is high enough even paying by mailing cash proposes a risk which is why things like tor need to be free. My advice is get a password manager and create unique long passwords and never reuse usernames to prevent doxxing threats, I use keepassXc for everything even my bank.

I block cloudflareinsights.com which my lemmy instance seems to be using lol.

I dont feel like it does anything new everything it brags about is just standard, anti fingerprinting is kinda cool but if i needed that id just use tor mullvad. The last cool browser is saw was zen

Make your main browser secure and private and use tor/mullvad for anonymity.

I found some of those download youtube sites do work lol. This one works for me i just tested it https://ytdown.to/en2/

cock.li or altaddress

You cant create accounts for anything with a vpn active now days but once you’ve created it on your bare ip you can use a vpn.

4get is the best search engine

Tor bridges exist for this don’t they?

Thanks for the reply, my concern for question 2 was if someone knows my domain they could discover my paypal account just by searching paypal@MyDomain.com if i where to follow that naming system which most people seem to do. Some services let you search by email.

€11.99 a month is a lot for a vpn that doesn’t mention port forwarding.

If you’re worried about slower speeds and higher ping you can split tunnel applications so they wont be affected by the VPN i do this for things like games and freetube(doesn’t seem to work with my vpn enabled).

If you’re in the UK could you get prosecuted for saying something “grossly offensive” around one of those ring door bells?

I also fear the $5 wrench. Honestly if you’re doing any risky and dangerous shit you have to ask yourself if its worth doing.

I like mullvad i use their dns filtering and their socks5 proxies however it does lack port forwarding so it sucks for torrenting.

Did you also register your account with a unique name and email?

I use Invidious or if that doesn’t work i split tunnel a terminal and use mpv