New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
Authored Comments
VPNs are good diversionary tactics. Tor would be more private, since it aims to provide end-to-end anonymity.
I've been splitting my time between Brave and (now that it's open source) Vivaldi. Brave can be pretty strict about blocking stuff, so if something doesn't work, I sometimes go into Settings, allow cookies, do what I need to do, and then go back in and disable them again. It's a little tedious, but in general a small price to pay, plus it's a good way to find out which sites are poorly coded.