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Yes that’s exactly it. Thanks Mike!

quoting nevent1q…4qwv

For those seeking rigorous privacy I've argued for using Qubes (or at least whonix) and Tor like Edward Snowden does. I use such a machine for certain activities. But it is not my main computer. My main workstation has too much stuff to run something like that... ZFS for instance.

In these cases VPNs have to suffice. But VPNs aren't entirely safe. You can be fingerprinted and tracked pretty easily still just by the multiple websites you go to fingerprinting your browser. And it is hard to know if you can trust a corporate VPN company.

Rather than install multiple browsers in multiple VMs and trying to tweak them all so they don't all have identical specs (something that can be used to associate them), you could instead consider something like https://vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com , a VPN system and Browser container system that work together to foil this kind fingerprinting, without the downsides of Qubes or the slowness or Tor. It fakes your display, isolates cookies, routes through backwater datacentres instead of those Cloudfare infested places. And of course you sign up anonymously with bitcoin. I think it is a good compromise for practical privacy. I haven't used it yet myself though but I'm going to take a look and I'd be interested in feedback from those who do. I believe it is just now in beta testing.

Cool idea.

I'm sure SimplifiedPrivacy.com (npub14sl…t5d6) will correct me if I got any of that wrong.