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Just in case you encounter a snag when a certain World-Wide Web site decides it is not going to display content in Firefox due to you running Windows® 7, I recommend going into about:config and adding this browser variable
general.useragent.override ; choose ‘string’ and put this line in the fieldCode:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0
This should convince whoever is checking that you are now running Windows® 10 x64, even though you are not.
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Responding for myself; after finally getting 1GB fiber broadband here, I searched for a webhost not coupled with my V.92 internet service provider. I did want a webhost resistant to not merely DDoS attacks, but actors seeking to make my World-Wide Web pages unavailable for any reason.
Remembering Woody’s original remark about his seven-year-old browsing here, I have select interests which I do not mention. So-many-years ago, I broke out the links on my W-WW bookmark page to avert censorware determining some of those links disqualified me from being shown to surfers.
The domain name registrar I chose is Porkbun, of Portland, OR. U.S.A. Porkbun provides the TLS certificate.
My webhost is Orange webhosting. It is hosted in Iceland, which is not a nation in the fourteen eyes surveillance alliance. I have read that it is host to a number of conspiracy theorists and persons spreading horrible information; but my content is definately not like theirs. I paid $26.98 for six-months hosting. This seems to be average.
Aside from the domain I.P. Address changing a fortnight ago (which required logging on to the Porkbun account to amend), its web hosting is fine. I recommend it. Particularly if you have any interests which are NSFW.Important links you can use, without the monetization pitch = https://pqrs-ltd.xyz/bookmark4.html1 user thanked author for this post.
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The two programs I use to erase the metadata from jpgs are JPG Cleaner 2.6 (Originally written for Windows 98, but still works on new Windows versions.), and JPEG and PNG Stripper. I learned you should run both programs in this order. As to why you should remove the metadata from images, a more lucid and mainstream reason came to the fore in April 2020, when somebody posted images of a Chicago bar (taken from outside of it) which was definitely violating COVID-19 occupancy restrictions. The poster who had left in all the metadata was the person who received death threats. 🙁
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According to my records, KB4474419 was installed on this computer in January 2020. So I would state it is probable that you have already have it.
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Oops. I did not get back to this rubric in a while.
I dare scribe that the installer will remember this installation. Not that it was tremendously difficult. Vines growing on the east side of the edifice had to be cut (where the drill was made to make the connection). But that he had to walk through the clutter of the abode to get to the room where I have this Windows® 7 x64 computer. Yipe. (I’m not apologizing. I will not spend thousands of dollars to throw things away. Mom’s and dad’s clothes really should go to somewhere they can be worn. Boxes of my stuff are in the living and dining rooms because their clothes are all in the closets, including mine. The inside back porch adjacent to my room had a roof leak a few years which necessitated boxes being evacuated from there.)
I was designated a BGW320-505 router. I haven’t checked recently, but its firmware was 2.13.4. I changed the SSID network name to something pronouncible. I set up the Guest Network, but then disabled it to not appear on the list of networks available here. (Neighbors’ wifi networks appear when searched.) It would broadcast on both 2.4 and 4 networks.
So it is doing very well. The situation which has totally flipped is that I used to have to go out to the Chicago Public Library branch, or a pub or restaurant to download browser updates and security patches on its broadband wifi network via a 32GB flash drive to my Windows® 8.1 x64 laptop. Now it is the other way. I download the above to the 32GB flash drive here, and later install the 8.1 updates and patches onto it. Likely the next time I go out anywhere.
Here’s a screen shot of a Speedtest result showing just how swiftly I now traverse.
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Whew.
After all this advice about how to configure Thunderbird; I want to splice in a new branch to tell people about the E-Mail providers I utilize.
I do not bother with IMAP or POP3 e-mail anymore. I feel web-based e-mail offers the most support versus virii, worms, and phishing. My core E-Mail account is with Fastmail.com. But I never send any E-Mails with that domain name appearing.
I have ‘protected‘ my e-mail address at Fastmail (an Australian corporation) by registering it with Spam Gourmet. For a lengthy span of time, it seemed that Spam Gourmet was going to go off-line. But somebody picked up the scepter and resumed support. You can again sign up for it. I have used Spam Gourmet since May 2005. In this span, it has ‘eaten’ 52,497 spam e-mails. It has also exposed which corporations distribute an e-mail address to a spammer.(!) {‘We said we would never sell your e-mail address. That did not mean we would not trade or lend it to another corporation | organization.‘}
As I scribe on my regular bookmark page, the biggest snag for Spam Gourmet is so-called software suites considering an e-mail address with a domain of “spamgourmet.com” or “xoxy.net” (which is the domain I regularly give out) to be spam, and block an e-mail message from it.
This is, of course, ridiculous, because spammers all know how to apply for ‘burner’ e-mail accounts from Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo. That’s what they use. Software suites (Barracuda is the worst) do not dare bounce e-mails from those domains. (Too big to block?!)
This leads me to suspect the corporations selling e-mail software suites are in league with spammers.
Another e-mail provider I use is VFEmail. It does a fine job at blocking spam and virii at its level. (It uses SpamAssassin as its checkpoint.)
For Fastmail, I pay an annual fee. The fee is recent. (It was free when I initially registered for it.)
VFEmail is free. There are extra-cost options available for it. You probably will not learn about it now because it deactivated all its social media outlets in protest of those outlets deciding to become censors.
I am familiar with ProtonMail com. One of my anonymous personae uses it as its e-mail provider. Give it a glimpse.
Once you sign up for these web-based services, it is a lot simpler to configure than what I have read about Thunderbird in this thread. Yes, I still use Firefox. But I do not want to go into the weeds with its configuration.Important links you can use, without the monetization pitch = https://pqrs-ltd.xyz/bookmark4.html1 user thanked author for this post.
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I heed much of the advice related in this thread. But as I state on my public regular bookmark page, it is ultimately that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is dying by a thousand cuts, with non-U.S.-governmental agencies [e.g.: Australia] achieving the “unreasonable” searches.
The Fourth Amendment does not apply to Microsoft, Apple, or Google. But these corporations are what multi-millions of U.S. citizens are dependent.
A VPN could help. But the VPN needs to be in a country which is not one of the “five eyes” countries the U.S.A. recruits to do the prohibited acts it cannot perform.
As for me, I feel every country will surrender to the U.S.A. if pressured enough. So I will not pay for ‘fake security’ like a VPN.
Essentially, the model of American jurisprudence has been catastrophically flipped. It is no longer “Innocent until proven guilty”, but “Guilty unless proved innocent.”
This I find abhorrent. But communicating with politicians that this should be prevented will likely result in, not an act introduced to limit the collection of this data, but the addition of the citizen suggesting the privacy revisions to surveillance lists. 😡Important links you can use, without the monetization pitch = https://pqrs-ltd.xyz/bookmark4.html3 users thanked author for this post.
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It could happen. Even when using a regular point-and-shoot digital camera.
I have posted many images I have taken on the Internet. But before then, when I move the images from my camera’s data card to temporary computer drive storage, I run a program which I’ve used since 1998 called “jpgcleaner95” (!).
It strips the metadata off the photographs you take. One of its intents was to reduce the weight of each image. The metadata populates kb in each photo – and as you can likely deduce, bandwidth was at a premium in the 20th Century.
As you might suspect, anytime you want to prevent, or eliminate, identifying data from your activity on the internet, naysayers will bemoan you are doing something illegal.
Fie on them. It is accurate I have an interest in erotica. But contemplate the non-erotic instance in which the person who submitted photographs of a Chicago bar violating COVID-19 protocol had his life threatened for ‘outing’ the venue.
So this is definitely a valid reason for stripping the metadata out of your photographs. (He submitted the images lucidly. But if he had offered them anonymously, there are methods by which he would have been identified.)
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