I think it's interesting to ask here, since generally people on this forum are probably at least slightly "technically competent" than the average person.
I don't think so. May be some of the hire rank members are but rest are not tech savvy. You are making things complicated for them when you are saying using Linux and stuffs. Anyway use VPN or tor browser. You are anonymous.
That's a good point! I personally was using a VPN for a couple of months, but due to the cost + general slowness I chose not to after a while.
I think myself I'm ok because I don't really use any of those big sites and with noscript and such, they don't know what I'm doing anyway!
Only problem is individual sites I guess.
I'm also a bit worried, while I understand VPNs are encrypted, it feels a bit unsafe that my encrypted data goes through the same 'node' as many other people who might somehow grab something from it?
Or the VPN providers themselves doing something wrong.
I regularly use duckduckgo, but sadly it isn't too great at finding results, but better than nothing!
I mentioned duckduckgo + startpage in the thread atleast.
I added a short text about VPNs/Tor if you want to see if it's correct
