I recently tried to clean up my digital life. I switched to Linux and switched to GrapheneOS and made more use of my proton subscription to replace google.
But I have a few questions :
I tried https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on Librewolf on my PC and Vanadium on my phone and it say I have a nearly unique fingerprint.
Is the benefit of using a privacy focused browser neglected by the low userbase and unique fingerprint ?
I did not have a great digital hygiene before so I have a google account, meta...
How do I clean this up ? Are services like Incogni any good or is it just marketing ?
Finally I wanted to use tails with persistent storage to use as a live system if I ever need to use a PC that is not my own to connect to my accounts. However, I don't want the ISP to know I use Tor. I see it as a big "I have something to hide" flag for the ISP.
But my understanding is if I install a VPN on tails it will be Tor over VPN (bad if I understand correctly) instead of VPN over Tor. Should I use something else than tails since I only want/need always on VPN with kill switch.
Thanks a lot for your help. I want to say the journey is much easier than what I anticipated. The hardest part is making people switch around me. The lobbying has started.
When I switched to Graphene a month ago, I was expecting to make a lot of concession for privacy, security and to get rid of Google.
But honestly, it just works great and while it is meant to be used without google, WhatsApp and all those spywares.
You still have the ability to use them if needed but sandboxed and in a different profile. It makes it so that the switch is easier and not a all or nothing.
The only thing I struggled with was using something else than Google Maps and Obtainium at first.