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let's open with the most important thing to take away from this video simply

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switching on incognito mode or private browsing is not enough to keep your data

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safe online also just because you aren't doing anything

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illegal doesn't mean that no one is after your personal information and that

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there's no benefit to staying private thing is guys these days pretty much

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everyone and their dog is out to get your browsing data and that's not

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tinfoil hat paranoid delusional stuff

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the main reason is that companies and other organizations like political

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parties want your eyeballs glued to

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their message and the data that they get from your behavior online helps by

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giving them an advantage when they serve up those juicy ads everywhere that you

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frequent the good news is that staying private online is actually less

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difficult than you might think and pretty much anyone can do it so let's go

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through some easy strategies starting with one of our favorites using a vpn

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like private internet access for those of you new to vpns or virtual

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private networks they take in your data

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encrypt it then send it through their network of servers before forwarding it

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to the destination country of choice when the vpn sends your data out into

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the world towards the intended destination it decrypts the data and

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makes it look like the data originated from that exit point rather than your

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computer so whether you're torrenting or

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looking up content that might generate embarrassing ads in your browser the

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next time someone sits down at your computer we consider a vpn an essential

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part of staying safe online with that said while a vpn does secure

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your data in some ways making it so your isp can't tell what you're doing and

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allowing you to circumvent most firewall blocks when your information leaves the

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vpn network it's all still there and can

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be used to track you so a vpn is just

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one of the tools in our belt now let's talk about the onion router or

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tor as some of you know it we've actually covered tor before but the

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summary version goes a little something like this the onion router isn't a

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physical router like you'd think of plugging in in your home rather it's an

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internet networking protocol that's integrated into the tor web browser and

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it's designed to anonymize the data relayed across it

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so it keeps your online activity anonymous by encasing your traffic in

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multiple layers of encryption then

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sending it through a number of nodes that peel back those layers one at a

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time this makes it difficult if not impossible for snoops to see your

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webmail search history and other online

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activity now tor is also imperfect and leaves us

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vulnerable until our traffic reaches its network

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that's why we're using our pia vpn to mask that initial jump

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now thing is using a vpn can actually lead to issues if you are specifically

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being hunted by some government agency because your traffic will have a

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predictable exit point but for most people whose goal is to thwart more

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casual surveillance and advertisers this vulnerability isn't that important

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now incognito mode which by the way isn't useless plus a vpn and tor is

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pretty good and probably enough for most people but since we're going for the

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ultimate private setup we're going to take things a step further with our

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secret weapon the hey

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there it is super secure password the Linux based

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tails is the operating system equivalent

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of your weird uncle after too many drinks it's designed to forget

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everything it ever heard or saw the

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entire os is built around the tor protocol and runs all internet traffic

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through the tor network not just your browser traffic one of the other key

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benefits of tails is that the os essentially runs off of your computer's

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RAM so once you turn off the system poof

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any data that was lingering on it is gone and there's nothing to match your

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identity to the last browsing session another advantage of this solution is

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that you can take it with you and launch it on nearly any computer with a usb

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port so then now we are ready to browse the

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web anonymously

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almost the first thing you'll probably notice about the tor browser is how

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similar it looks to firefox and that's not by accident it's because it is

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firefox just set up to use the tor protocol and that's nice because it

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makes configuring all these little tweaks pretty familiar and

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straightforward so in no particular order regardless of our browser choice

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we want to make sure that javascript can't run we want to install the privacy

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badger extension to stop trackers and provide ad blocking and we want to set

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our default search engine to duckduckgo for what i hope would be fairly obvious

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reasons so then now

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we are fully ready to both browse the web and stick it to the man

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at the same time let's do a few tests here to see what that looks like so

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we've got two machines for our side by side test a completely vanilla one

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running Windows and using google and then our tails Linux one with the tor

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browser now something to note is that we're not actually using a vpn on either

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of these machines because here we're trying to get a representation of the

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worst case scenario and here pia actually doesn't recommend using

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their vpn from within tails although they do have a free proxy included with

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your account which they do say could be a good idea depending on what it is

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you're trying to achieve so let's go ahead and search for expedia

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um okay first hit is

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expedia.com this one expedia.ca

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so immediately our location has been anonymized and also

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expedia blocked us from even accessing their site

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that's cute did we know that was gonna happen no i

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didn't expect him to block tour expedia blocks tor

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let's try a different provider we can't tell if you're a human

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i'm human expedia dot co dot uk let me through it's like pretty sure i'm a bot

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hey taking it sweet time three freaking

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catches no we're good all right let's find a

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freaking flight here new york departing

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tomorrow okay let's do a quick search midirch

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now we haven't actually been researching flights and hotels so there may not be

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much benefit in terms of pricing to anonymizing any of this but

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there's only one way to find out all right so we're looking at 699

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canadian round trip and 304

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pounds let's do a quick conversion there

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556. i just saved 145 dollars

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this is the same damn flight and it's over hundred dollars cheaper

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includes taxes and fees and then same in canada too including taxes and fees yep

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yep yep apples to apples you have you heard it here first expedia hates

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canadians now let's do another fun little test let's go to whatismyip.com

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that is in fact r.i.p and over here my

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public ip is some nonsense i've never seen or heard of before and i'm

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apparently based in basel bsch where the devil is that

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switzerland now let's do another fun little test let's go on a popular

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shopping website like say newegg.com

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now let's shop for let's say video cards

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maybe an phantom radeon7 uh what's a site with

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really really obnoxious ads ah what's that one based in australia

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that's like super obnoxious tweektown tweak town

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that's it thanks luke

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all right and let's have a look at what kind of ads are lurking for us

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on the page what do we have here

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vancouver to london vancouver to new delhi vancouver to lima and vancouver to

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san salvador shockingly they didn't manage to come up

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with any graphics cards ads which was sort of what i was going for here but i

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think we've made our point as for this well it looks like they're

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not getting any ad revenue from us which of course we feel pretty badly about as

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an ad supported enterprise ourselves but at the very least we are not being

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tracked across the internet which is the only reason that we enabled the ad

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blocking on this particular one in the first place you can of course anonymize

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your browsing significantly without blocking ads altogether

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just saying so for fun we're going to disable both

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privacy badger and u-block origin and reload this page

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so there's our ads but as you can see they are completely

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irrelevant so we've got some scarlet audio

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interfaces in whatever language this is and add for the stream deck accel that's

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in english at least an ad for Corsair's hydrox series liquid

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cooling so there you go

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so that was a pretty compelling demonstration of the benefits of private

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browsing but it has some clear disadvantages as well

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now this machine on the right is actually faster than the one on the left

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but you guys might have noticed that browsing from within tails using the tor

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browser was slow as hell

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that's because the more hops you go through the more latency you're adding

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to the connection also some of the creature comforts that

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we've gotten used to on the modern web things like shopping carts that remember

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all the things that you added to them or websites that remember that you logged

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into them so you don't have to enter your password every time that stuff

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ain't gonna work over here also something to bear in mind guys is

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that no matter what you do it is going to be imperfect

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this was a fairly basic guide and privacy browsing is a rabbit hole and a

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half furthermore even on a properly set

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up machine while you're browsing and searching and almost all of your

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internet usage might be basically invisible

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nothing is bulletproof because the weakest point in the entire chain exists

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between the keyboard and the chair you and i are human and we are nothing

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if not creatures of habit and if someone is trying to find you your habits are

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likely to end up being the thing that gives you away with all of that said

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though for the vast majority of use cases following either of the methods

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that we laid out here should obscure your data footprint enough to make it

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nearly useless for advertisers and other

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parties speaking of advertisers this video is brought to you by pia private

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variety of vpn protocols and types of encryption and authentication allowing

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at once using a single account their apps include dns leak protection and

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ipv6 leak protection as well as their internet kill switch feature which

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blocks all traffic if the vpn becomes disconnected unexpectedly so check it

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out today at LMG dot gg slash pia Linus

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two we're gonna have that linked down below so thanks for watching guys if this

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like this one join our community forum it looks like

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that or like that if you're in the tor

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browser well