Questions tagged [privacy]
Questions about protecting your privacy on your computer. Questions about privacy in web applications belong in WebApps.
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It it possible to have every app have a different IP address
I'm on Windows 10 22H2 and I want a different VPN (or proxy?) for every program on my computer, I've seen ForceBindIP mentioned, is that a viable solution? I would want this to be scalable, so 10-15 ...
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Looking for a tool or a script that will hide email addresses from PDF files
I am scanning the personal archive of someone and would like to publish the scanned files with email addresses hidden.
The PDF files have a text layer so it can be used to find the strings.
What I ...
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Site gives PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR in Librewolf but not Chromium
When I login to my bank's website, it redirects to https://auth.securebanklogin.com/ (and a bunch of other places in that domain).
On Librewolf, this eventually ends in a PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR page.
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What risks are you taking when "signing in with Google"? [closed]
(Sorry if this is too basic, I'm not a web dev)
When a third-party web site offers you to "sign in with Google", what risks are you taking: Are you just giving it (the third party) your name ...
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OneDrive "remembers" accounts not used/signed-in on new MacBook
My Issue
I have been struggling find a solution to this for about a week and need some help. I have recently bought a personal MacBook as dev machine for my research, so all it will have installed is ...
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Allow subdomains with Firefox canvas fingerprinting
Firefox has fingerprinting protection (currently experimental). Some sites that use the canvas don't render properly. For example, the terminal in GitHub Codespaces looks garbled until an exception is ...
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Will bad thing happed if i remove an uid from my pgp key?
I added an photo uid to my openpgp keyring a few days ago.
If i want to update this image later, do i have to revoke the old one and keep it on the key? I don't want to because it would obviously make ...
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Cleardot.gif in Gmail?
I had recently read up on how people can track when someone has read a gmail message using tracking pixels they either make themselves, or with the use of chrome extensions. When I entered the network ...
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Does "winget" just trust whatever each program's installer has selected by default?
I recently learned about the amazing (in theory) command "winget", built into Windows 10.
But something about it worries me: a lot of software has all kinds of user-hostile defaults selected ...
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Does TurboTax store information locally if tax file is saved removable media
Does TurboTax store "sensitive" or "personal information" locally if tax file is saved on removable media?
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Can external email (gmail in this case) recipients view internal "private" emails within the same email thread?
The situation is such:
Email thread started with external recipients (outside an office)...let's call them E1 and E2, and I1, I2, and I3 ("I" internal and "E" for external ...
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Disable Bing Search on Windows Start Menu for Standard Users [duplicate]
I found that the How-to-Geek Guide - How to Disable Bing in the Windows 10 Start Menu works also for Windows 11 (or at least for versions prior to 22h2).
I have more than one account on my machine, ...
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Trying to understand my level of privacy with a VPN in play, but also routing DNS directly to root servers
When I run a http://dnschecks.tools I get the following:
Given I'm using pfSense with Unbound and OpenVPN, I'm doing my own DNS queries to the root servers. The IP listed on IPXO is my VPN IP, and on ...
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How to delete a Folder as if it hasn't existed at all
As the title says, not only I want to completely erase it's bits and bytes from the disk but also it's trace on file system, so NO Undelete software can show that it HAD been there at all.
There are ...
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Does email you send or reply to contain privacy information that spammers could use?
I have received a few emails recently that seem like spam but they are asking about open source projects I've worked on and gmail didn't flag them as spam.
When I email or reply to an email does ...
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Preventing browser from leaking setup/screen information?
Properties like MouseEvent.screenX encode more information about my setup than needed for almost all websites, but can easily be used for digital fingerprinting.
Assuming I run Chrome, Chromium (or a ...
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Can an extension installed on Firefox access data from another browser, say Chrome?
Forgive my lack of understanding with regards to browsers. I am just starting my journey learning to code and I am setting up a live server extension to practise html.
I am a bit distrustful of using ...
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What is the "My Contacts" range in this Telegram settings page?
I want to stay very private on Telegram. Here is a My Contacts toggle that I must check unless I switch to "Everybody".
What is the definition of "My Contacts" here? I don't want ...
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How to stop the “Your version of Windows 10 has reached its end of service.” message? I do not want to update
And I know for sure that it was for years reported that I don't have to update Windows to a new version: I know that so clearly because that was basically the only thing stoppable for an end user in ...
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Does Firefox Leak My Real IP Through Safe Browsing Service?
I am using Firefox. I found some settings in about:config starting with:
browser.safebrowsing.provider.google....
I know I can disable some of them, however, it's a long list to handle.
Does Firefox ...
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Chrome know about all apps installed on my pc
There is a feature in chrome to check for malware in your pc. If I once used it, it does not find any malware, does it store and connect to my email what apps I had? More concerning, does it know ...
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Can an RDP client prevent “Windows 10 Keylogger” from accessing what is typed on client computer during a session to a remote computer?
The “improve inking and typing” setting in Windows 10 allows Microsoft to send themselves processed samples of what is typed on a machine (not sure if it is processed to remove details as it’s typed ...
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How to mask ssh using obfsproxy?
How to obfuscate ssh connection using obfsproxy (obfs4proxy) ?
What is the configuration on Linux for obfs4proxy and openssh-server (ex. /etc/ssh/sshd_config) ? (server-side)
What is the configuration ...
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Proxychains not working when I added proxies. I don't want to use tor., I just want to use my proxies
I'm trying to use proxychains which kept throwing this error
$ proxychains firefox www.startpage.com
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
|DNS-request| location.services.mozilla.com
!!!need ...
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Windows 11: can I use it without logging in to the Microsoft cloud?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro, and Windows Update says now:
Windows 11, version 22H2 is on its way to your device.
But I have this huge worry, where I am aware that windows is very pushy with trying to ...
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How do I disable videos in Firefox?
How do I disable all videos from even starting to load, showing a picture from the video, or anything like that, in Firefox.
Anyway, part of the problem with videos is privacy (as with images, third-...
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Is it a security/privacy risk to sell a used printer?
I am about to trash or sell off my old printer, Xerox Phaser 3122, and I wonder if this poses any security/privacy risk?
How do I check if any of my past printing jobs are stored inside this printer? ...
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Accept all cookies banner on StackExchange site button not working and not disappear when I click in Parrot OS Vmware VM Browser
Accept all cookies banner on StackExhange site button not working and not disappear when I click ACCEPT ALL OR SETTINGS in Parrot OS Vmware Parrot os Virtual Machine
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ANONYM USER whatis this ? i never saw this before
I was searching for some info on sdhl.dat and found this:
Hello
I have a .dat file on my PC and every time I try to delete it, it comes back after restarting the PC. After some search I found this &...
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Where can I view the location history in Windows 10?
Windows 10 may track the geolocation:
Where can I view the location history in Windows 10?
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Why is Firefox accessing my .viminfo and .bash_history files?
Under Ubuntu 22.04, AppArmor is active by default and configured to check all file accesses of Firefox and LibreOffice. Firefox is packaged as a "snap". When I look which file accesses ...
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Blocking MS Word (2019 Office Pro) from the Internet
I blocked every application in the entire Office directory structure, and MS Word can still access the internet.
I used the program fab.exe (Firewall App Blocker) to add all the apps in the ...
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Keeping separate cookies/logins for each google subdomain
When I log in to gmail.com, my cookies are shared with google.com, and even youtube.com.
Any way to prevent this? To make it so that, say, calendar.google.com has its cookie jar, compleately separated ...
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How to keep local searches local on Win11?
To launch a program on Windows 11 I press the win-key and type the name of the software.
But there is a huge privacy issue with the latest version of Windows:
The system sends everything the user ...
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What exactly is MediaCreationTool doing when it's "Getting a few things ready"?
Every time I run this tool from Microsoft to create a Windows installation media/ISO, it says for quite a long time before it actually starts:
Getting a few things ready
What exactly is it doing at ...
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How to disable Windows lock screen showing sensitive content?
When you lock your Windows 10 workstation, the lock screen continues to show sensitive content:
You can then even resume playing the sensitive content.
How do you make locking the workstation lock ...
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Can website cookies (ie. from Facebook) track me when I use the same browser to browse other websites?
Recently, I've been doing research on Google on home improvement articles. I use the same browser -- Brave, which touts its privacy settings right from get-go -- occasionally to check Facebook. I did ...
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What exactly is a "Google Services Token"? [closed]
In the privacy settings for Vivaldi, there is a "Google Services Token" checkbox. I unchecked it. After that, it was possible to log in to Gmail, with the site claiming that my "browser ...
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Privacy: VPN and DNS
I'm using a VPN for privacy purposes. If I ensure that the DNS requests are sent through the VPN I can select whatever DNS Server I like? Is there any advantage to using the DNS Server provided by the ...
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Your privacy settings blocked access to your location
On a computer with Windows 11, about every week, I get a notification saying, "Your privacy settings blocked access to your location", and "If you want to change these settings, go to ...
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What does Google know about me when I use Chrome to browse?
Specifically, I wanted to know, when one uses Chrome to browse, assuming that they are not signed into a Google account and there are no cookies/history/cache or other data saved before starting, ...
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Description for category names of Mozilla Shavar blacklist
Looking at the Mozilla Shavar blacklist, which is used for tracking protection (ex. in Mozilla Firefox), the services are grouped in several categories:
Email
EmailStrict
Advertising
Content
Analytics
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Are there other ways for co-editing with Word than OneDrive?
For my company we would like to co-edit documents, but we don't like the privacy concerns about Microsoft OneDrive because it's hosted in the US.
Are there any other possibilities to use word together ...
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Windows encryption of users data
I use a Windows 10 laptop that is also used by other people. All users have the administrator rights. I want to protect my profile folder C:\Users\myaccount from access by the other users, especially ...
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Do printers really have hard disks or any kind of storage in them?
I keep hearing about how insecure it is to use printers to print any kind of sensitive material, such as Bitcoin private keys. Allegedly because they "store all printed pages on internal storage&...
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Is mute (Fn + F8) button on a HP laptop a physical switch
My laptop has a physical mute button (F8).
Is this a physical switch or a software switch?
I am trying to understand if malware could disable the mute button or not
Thanks
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How to make sure of user's privacy in my app? [closed]
I want to develop an app where I want to give user's at most privacy to their data. I need a database and server to run my app. Are there any instances of AWS/GCP not being trustworthy regarding user ...
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Better understanding 2FA
Why does 2FA fail unless geo-location is enabled system wide ?
Solutions offered ( https://debiankalilinuxtips.substack.com/p/automatic-datetime-sync ) for date/time sync do not resolve 2fa requiring ...
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Take ownership greyed out
I am the system administrator.
I took ownership of those directories:
C:\Windows
C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)
I gave myself full permissions without any problems.
Recently i noticed an .exe ...
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How do I disable the Firefox "sign into XXXX with Google" popup? [duplicate]
I've looked around and found ways to do this in Chrome, but how can I disable this in Firefox?
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