• I used to have an Xperia SP. One day, I decided to swap out all of the AOSP apps that came preinstalled for Google’s own offerings.
• I also used to use Yandex as my main search engine. I thought it was better than DuckDuckGo…
• I also used to use Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Mail, and Yandex.Disk. I’m also not sure I deleted my account…
• Just three years ago, I was using Opera. I had no idea it had become a Chinese Chromium fork. I also used to use Maxthon, on occasion.
• I used to use Opera VPN.
• When I was about 7, I ended up with a bunch of malware on my laptop (turns out McAfee is shit). I recently discovered that my IP range briefly ended up on some blacklist around that time, so I assume I had become part of a botnet.
• Around this time, I used Hola VPN.
• Until fairly recently, I had multiple ad and tracker blockers installed at the same time. This is obviously overkill, and increases your fingerprintability.
• I also used to manually change my user agent to Chrome on Windows 10, despite the fact I was using Firefox on Linux. The mismatch also made me more fingerprintable.
• I used to have Do Not Track enabled, which can be used to fingerprint users.
• I used to use my browser fullscreen, meaning my screen resolution could be calculated and used for fingerprinting.
• I used to use Outlook.com as a client for my email, which was privately self-hosted by my dad.

Yeah, I used to be pretty insecure, huh. My privacy journey was quite fast, and began around 2020. My uncle had given me a ThinkPad and a DVD of Linux Mint. I was stuck at home for most of the year, I started watching a lot of sociopolitical comedy videos, and eventually one thing led to another and before you knew it I was wearing the metaphorical tinfoil hat.

Nowadays, I’m doing much better.

Glad I changed my stack over a few months ago:

• Proton Mail → Posteo
• Proton VPN → Mullvad VPN
• Proton Drive → Syncthing

I’d also recommend KeePassXC in place of Proton Pass, and Cake Wallet in place of Proton Wallet. However, these were both Proton services I never used anyway.

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Fuel? Hydrocarbons like that are quite combustible. It could also be incorporated into a lipid or something.

Fossify SMS is better, since SimpleMobileTools went proprietary after an aquisition a few years ago.

Where am I going to get my £17 vodka now?

Ah, my chemistry department taught me the other way around. I distinctly remember the phrase “methyl-ethyl” being thrown around a bit. Additionaly, we were taught to be more specific about isomers, hence me using butan-2-yl instead of isobutyl.

Then again, scientists often disagree strongly about things like this, so we could both be right. Also, there’s a good chance this is just the A-Level specification being weird. I left my old textbook at my student flat, though, so I won’t be able to check for a couple of weeks.

I could also be downright wrong myself.

As for the hydrogens, I had assumed they were not present, and that this lossane molecule is an ion with a charge of -50. This is borderline impossible to achieve in real life, of course.

Arsole

Fixed the charge on your 3-methyl-3,4,5,5,6-pentaethyl-6-butan-2-yl decane ion, aka lossane.

(It’s been a while since I last did chemistry, so apologies if I messed up the nomenclature a bit)

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Nawr, this was just in Firefox.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!

Noice. I’ll have to try it!

We need to invent a cocktail called a screenshot. There’s already one called a snapshot (sambuca and Kahlúa), but I think it should be a completely different drink.

I would not recommend Surfshark. Mullvad is normally quite good, as are ProtonVPN, Windscribe, and IVPN.

However, as you will be aware from my post, your mileage may vary depending on how nice your ISP is.

Well, that would certainly explain where my mobile data went.

I have three VPNs, one proxy, and one more VPN that I do not have an active subscription to but which I can pay for if the rest fail.

As for ISPs, I have my parents’ WiFi, my grandma’s WiFi, and the WiFi in my student accommodation.

It’s the latter. Damn Virgin!

Fortunately, another user provided a working solution:

@hellfire103 I bet it’s the DAITA on your Mullvad, choose MultiHop instead with Wireguard, quantum resist. and obfuscation . Then use a Linux set from boot SOCKS5 as you desire. I hope it helps.

However, alternative solutions would be appreciated.

VPN failing to connect. Stealth mode didn’t work, as described above. I’m in the UK.

Another user provided a working solution:

@hellfire103 I bet it’s the DAITA on your Mullvad, choose MultiHop instead with Wireguard, quantum resist. and obfuscation . Then use a Linux set from boot SOCKS5 as you desire. I hope it helps.

However, alternative solutions would be appreciated.

@hellfire103 I bet it’s the DAITA on your Mullvad, choose MultiHop instead with Wireguard, quantum resist. and obfuscation . Then use a Linux set from boot SOCKS5 as you desire. I hope it helps.