INTERNET SURFING ON OBSOLETE SYSTEMS [2023]

UPDATED ON: 2023-04-07

No chitter here, just plain breakdown of the most important stuff.

► WINDOWS 7

FIREWALL▼

• [Outpost Firewall Pro] ◄ very advanced and lightweight firewall with host-based intrusion-prevention and anti-leak systems. Review is [here] .

BROWSERS▼

• [IceWeasel] ◄ my personal choice to surf web [mozilla crap ripped off]
  
• [LibreWolf] ◄ debloated in terms of privacy Firefox with pre-installed uBlock Origin
  
• [PaleMoon] ◄ the most mozilla-independent fork of Firefox [but slowly degrading]
  
• [Tor Browser] ◄ handy to overcome geo restrictions and other artificial limitations of obsolescent governments
  Warning: some telemetry is present!

BROWSER ADDONS▼

• [uBlock] ◄ classic time-tested ad-blocker
  
• [uMatrix for Firefox] ◄ advanced content blocker
  
• [nMatrix for PaleMoon] ◄ advanced content blocker
  
• [LocalCDN] ◄ prevents unnecessary 3rd party requests from shite corps
  
• [CanvasBlocker] ◄ alters some JS APIs to prevent fingerprinting
  
• [Privacy Badger] ◄ automatically learns to block invisible trackers
  
• [Cookie AutoDelete] ◄ any cookies not being used are automatically deleted
  
• [I don’t care about cookies] ◄ get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites
  
• [ClearURLs] ◄ removes tracking elements from URLs

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► ANDROID 8

Vintage Android systems are less secure than vintage Windows and require more efforts to make protection more solid.

FIREWALL▼

• [Afwall+] ◄ advanced firewall based upon iptables [root required]

ADBLOCKER▼

• [AdAway] ◄ host-based adblocker [root required]

SPAMBLOCKER▼

• [Yet Another Call Blocker] ◄ efficient call blocker

BROWSERS▼

• [Mull] ◄ private Firefox fork, mozilla telemetry modules are completely removed
  
• [IceRaven] ◄ another Firefox fork with support of external addons [can be glitchy!]
  
• [TorBrowser] ◄ handy to overcome geo restrictions and other artificial limitations of obsolescent governments
  Warning: some telemetry is present!

BROWSER ADDONS▼

• [Ublock Origin] ◄ classic time-tested ad-blocker
  
• [NoScript] ◄ advanced content blocker [Umatrix is working only on Iceraven]
  
• [Decentraleyes] ◄ prevents unnecessary 3rd party requests from shite corps
  
• [HOW TO BRING DESKTOP ADDONS TO MOBILE BROWSER]

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► TOR / VPN / PROXY

• [Orbot] ◄ Tor proxy for Android

• Neat VPN services can be found [here]

TOR RELAY SCANNER FOR FINDING WORKING BRIDGES [original site]

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► SEARCH ENGINES

• [Mojeek] ◄ search engine with it’s own index, not dependent on ugly g and other big corps
  
• [SearX] ◄ open-source search aggregator [choose which mirror fits you best]
  
• [StartPage] ◄ just in case you desperately need g-style search results

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► E-MAIL SERVICES

• [Disroot] ◄ simply the best free e-mail service out there [free, consider donating though]
  
• [Posteo] ◄ no personal information collected, no ip-storage, immediate deletion of mail [1 EUR per month]
  
• [Elude] ◄ no personal information collected, great privacy, onion access [ 1 USD per month]
  
• [RiseUp] ◄ the best logging policy, no personal data collected [5 USD in a month]

I prefer to use oldschool e-mail client [Claws] for Windows and [K-9 Mail] for Android.
Think that it’s way better than trigger Js-based e-mail websites via browser.
Take a note that in case of K-9 Mail everything above v5.916 is poisoned with mozilla acid [telemetry].

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► CLOUD STORAGE

• [Disroot] ◄ online storage for sensitive data
  
• [Mega.io] ◄ backup solution for large and not-so-important files

Also make sure to check out previously posted Firefox [ADDONS] and [TWEAKS] sections.

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY. HAVE A NICE DAY!

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