Welcome to /poltech/,
Here we will help anons to protect themselves from botnets, malwares and government agencies as a whole.
There is a very high probability that you are being tracked and spied right now by your own government and private corporations than you are being hacked or targeted by cyber criminals. Especially if you are in any* version of Windows operating system and using google services on your phones or/and in your desktop like google chrome or Microsoft Edge.
If you are in Windows 10, you cannot turn off the spying even if you go through rigorous process of registry editing and "hacking" other elements of that operating system. Some of the telemetry servers are hardcoded into Windows10 builds. You simply cannot get rid of it no matter what unless you get rid of the OS itself.
So
Your first step to stay secured online is to install any* version of GNU/Linux operating system. For that, please refer to
But for ease I would like to recommend ubuntu. It is a good starter distro and you don't have to use command line if you really don't want to. Installation is self explanatory, only requirement is to be able to read.
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Ask your questions about linux and browsers. I will try my best to help you and I hope other /tech/ anons will also join in.