just installed openvpn + bought a well rated vpn provider service and installed almost everything else that privacytools.io said I should, in response to the UK Investigatory Powers bill giving a huge number of government arms access to my browsing history.
anything else I should do? any suggestions on how to combat this outside of some shitty petitions?
Or you could actually do something about it rather than being a fucking retard.
And now you've undone all that good work by announcing it on a British plum duff recipe website known to sync drives every minute to a descript building in Cheltenham.
Might as well end it now
Do what? They ignore petitions, even their own government website for them. They ignore protests. Writing to your MP? waste of time, they will do what the whip asks, they don't give a shit what people think. May is a control freak and brits have no opposition party in place to do anything.
Before it was media that could sway the government, but the media hate a free Internet.
Encouraging people to get vpns and use other methods is the best way now. There's now a government department free-for-all on everyones Internet history. Even the food department can just go get it. If people start hiding themselves because they no longer feel safe and vpns become the norm the government has just shafted the secret services.
>I've clearly done everything I can by doing nothing
Are you really so stupid that you think a vpn protects you in anyway whatsoever?
>Waaa all of this is useless
t. that guy who says your vote doesn't matter
>anything else I should do?
vote labour
You should have bought a VPS and installed a VPN on that.
Governments know the VPN providers and in the future they might rangeban them.
As an added bonus you can use it shitpost in Sup Forums and Sup Forums with a different flag.
64 Labour MPS voted for it you shithead, nearly all of the rest abstained.
but it does
Get DNSCrypt & Mullvad (or VPS offshore bought by bitcoins) && Macchanger
Connect through Tor with obfs4 OR Tails on USB for sensible stuff.
Get ungoogled-chromium as "normal browser" with Ublock + Scriptsafe + Tab Cookie + Location Guard.
Then you should be safe.
Except that a VPS provider is going to hand over all your details to GCHQ without them even getting a warrent, and the only traffic to your VPS is going to be you.
Dumb fuck.
VPNs have mass mixed traffic, and with no logs it helps obscure you.
Just pick a good VPN.
Kill yourself. Commie labour are all for big brother you stupid shit.
It would against ISP logging which is what the bill requires them to do.
Your vote doesn't matter you pleb. Only way is to do some major social engineering hack.
In all seriousness, I'd make plans to leave the UK.
Why? They've undoubtedly been doing this for years, it's way too late to start getting pissed off about it and leaving the country.
I haven't met a single person who gives a shit, AFK normies I mean. Even when I explain what the bill means, nobody cares. I can't tell if it's national apathy or if we're just this eager to roll over and take it like good little whores.
Never too late to move somewhere else, if you personally decide it is appropriate.
I don't live in the UK but there are several places I would rather live than there, and are accessible.
>I don't understand math or democracy
Votes don't matter. And the British cannot vote for someone who is pro-privacy. That is like an American voting for someone with anti-israel views. Not even third party candidates are like that.
Labour support this through. If you are Scottish you might vote SNP, but the rest want less privacy.
I wish the cunt in charge in charge if SNP would stop crying about second referendums she's never going to get and instead look at issues like this.
Daily reminder that the corrupt politicians have made themselves exempt from this law (which explains why they're all massively in favour of it).
Also, has anyone got the list of who can access your history. I know there are some really weird ones in their like the NHS, Department for Work and Pensions and the Food Standards Agency.
Labour are just as bad, it was they who wanted to bring in biometric IDs among other things. They are fiscally liberal, but socially authoritarian. The only party to come out against snoopers and similar policies have the Lib Dems.
It's not the full list, no one knows the full list.
Metropolitan police force
City of London police force
Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
Police Service of Scotland
Police Service of Northern Ireland
British Transport Police
Ministry of Defence Police
Royal Navy Police
Royal Military Police
Royal Air Force Police
Security Service
Secret Intelligence Service
GCHQ
Ministry of Defence
Department of Health
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
National Crime Agency
HM Revenue & Customs
Department for Transport
Department for Work and Pensions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
Competition and Markets Authority
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
Financial Conduct Authority
Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Scotland
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
Information Commissioner
NHS Business Services Authority
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
Office of Communications
Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Serious Fraud Office
Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust
>Department for Work and Pensions
Rampant abuse incoming
you mean that importing all these untrustworthy muslims means we now have to lose our freedoms? what a shock! who could have forseen??
For an overview of what shee...I mean normies think just watch some shit show in the UK called Gogglebox. They simply don't have a brain between them. They gasp in shock and horror at the media crap fed to them regarding terrorists and blindly sign away their freedoms and privacy through inaction. It's a lost cause. V for Vendetta is a template. Big Brother is a template. Thought crime is very real in the UK and it's the 'normies' who police it in the end. Shop in your neighbor on suspicion of littering. CCTV is everywhere now.
>social engineering hack
mfw
>Your vote doesn't matter you pleb.
Shit heads who care about privacy dont vote, but old shithead who are scared do vote.
Then you get mad about not being represented by politicians. Everything about not voting is retarded.
Oh I am sure they are already wetting their lips at the thought of spying on people on benefits ready to sanction them for buying a toothbrush from Amazon.
There was no vote on this you bellend. May is an unelected sociopath. It's just another example of politicians doing whatever the fuck they want and normaltards being too fucking brainless and apathetic to do anything about it.
>Except that a VPS provider is going to hand over all your details to GCHQ without them even getting a warrent
If I was GCHQ, wanting to still have all the browsing history of plebians using Hide my Ass or whatever, I'd go after Hide my Ass and their ilk. They're not going to bother to compromise every single VPS provider in bumfuck nowhere. Obviously if you were individually targeted then of course they would go after your VPS provider, but if the powers that be are individually targeting you you're probably already fucked.
>Food Standards Agency
>Food Standards Scotland
>Gambling Commission
Que
It's national apathy. I'm not doing anything illegal, so there's no point in going full tinfoil, and I can't undo the law until there's an election, and I wasn't going to vote Conservative anyway. And the government is legendarily incompetent; there's no way anyone is actually watching what I do. They just want to be able to check if they decide it's worth doing. The only thing I have to fear is when the databases inevitably get hacked by le anonymous XD, but my data is on there already so it's too late to do anything there either. We are being cucked by the government, but our only options are to moan or to not moan. I choose to do the one that's easier.
Buy a property in a subpoena free country then build your own vpn and use that with tails.
Or ignore all the memes you listed, get a proper VPN, third party DNS server and uBlock Origin and be done and go on with your day
Using a VPN doesn't prevent you from fighting against the law. It's not one or the other.
>Welsh Ambulance Service
Kek
You can't, just, like, own land, man. It's the Earth. It's everybody's.
Also,
>Implying paranoid autistic hermits can afford their own foreign data centre
>ah looks like you haven't been applying for any jobs this month, no benefits for you
Voting with your feet is the most powerful way to make change in your own life. Voting with in a ballot is not useless but lot less influential.
hahha, oh shit
this isn't Sup Forums you dumb faggots
the man asked a question and only two people in this thread have tried giving him a serious answer. you fucks are the cancer that is killing Sup Forums and I hope very bad things come to you in the future for your arrogant fuckery
whatever answers you got so far OP are probably all you're going to get, but they don't sound like bad suggestions
Having HMRC on there is so fucked up.
Why do you people keep acting like this is some big surprise. Where was everyone who supposedly gives a shit during the last year when something could have actually been done to combat this? It wasn't a secret that this was coming. Sign a fucking petition? Please.
stop being such an insufferable newfag
READING BUGGER
DO YOU ENGAGE IN IT?
You clearly don't know shit retard.
Use only live USB for internet browsing.
Can you make a request and get your browser history back? It's like a free backup.
>Hey can you guys find this porn video I watched like half a year ago. Can't remember the name of it now
throw away any phone you have that has a non removable battery, not going to tell who i work for, but governments give huge grants to tech companies that have non removeable batteries.
Selling batteries is a huge business as alot of people buy 2-3 batteries in a phone, laptops etc lifetime. So governments give grants so companies will put non removeable batteries
Why do governments do it?
Non removable batteries somewhat means your phone is always on, they can hear through the mic, watch through your camera and look at data on your phone.
I can hear your tinfoil hat rustling from here.
>not going to tell who I work for
Sure, NEET.
>department for transport
"it's says here your car reg has expired, and you googled Asian school girls. Book him squire. "
>Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
>check your search history before stopping your house from burning down
Post link to shitty petition pls
He's tinfoiling about the government grant shit, but the whole using your phone to listen on you shit is true.
But they don't need to since they have recordings of every single phone call and communication you do with it.
>Gangmaster
kek, you brits are a joke
>set up a hidden ras pi in the house of some fucker you don't like.
>Use it as a proxy and route your gay shots gore porn through it.
Here's a genuine question though
Let's say you apply for a job that needs a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). ie a complete police background check etc.
Do you think they will start looking into your internet history and "red flagging" certain sites
"oh you're applying for a job as a teacher but i see here you've visited Sup Forums and we all know we can't have someone like that around children!"
Yes.
Well they will for a while until they realise that they stopped hiring people.
There is litterally nothing *to* do in the uk to make *actual* change.
We are stuck in a one party system. And the majority of the population do not care about anything as long as they can be casually racist, work their 9-5 job, and watch Netflix.
The majority of the population unironicly hold the 'nothing to hide' point of view.
There is no difference a single average person can make, other then partake in an 'act of terrorism' but then that is against the whole point in the first place.
Genuine question: would use of a VPN actually work to hide your search history etc? Would use of a VPN be a massive red flag?
1. Hide it from who?
2. Partially. VPNs are mostly used to pirate shit nowadays.
The thing to remember is that the employment market is an employer's market.
Trump won, get over it.
Even that being the case, the whole point of this being bad is that EVERYONE has some dirt on them in their internet browsing history.
Even if there are a hundred applicants for every position, if only one in a thousand have clean internet histories, you're going to run out of workers.
>ah yes... i see you browse reddit
>you're hired!
Considering how some "redditfags" are this actually wouldn't surprise me.
Same with some "channers" too
People who actively identify themselves with anything to do with a website are the worst kinds of people.