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Episode: 4515
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Title: HPR4515: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide...
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4515/hpr4515.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-11-22 15:16:35
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4515 for Friday the 21st of November 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, Privacy?
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I don't have anything to hide.
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It is part of a series privacy and security.
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It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about three minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Archer 72 implements some tips from a YouTube author.
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Hello, this is your host, Archer 72, for Hacker Public Radio.
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In this episode, what do you have to hide?
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This topic was brought to my attention when I came across this video from the hated one.
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This YouTube host is extremely privacy focused and has interesting opinions not only on
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US privacy and security topics, but also internationally.
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This particular video was regarding locking down the settings on Firefox.
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The claim, besides increasing security, is to lower bandwidth and memory usage and
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double rendering speeds.
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While a lot of these steps, the author took seemed excessive, they might help you.
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I used a few of these settings as a takeaway to this video, as well as one extension
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that I find very useful.
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The author is correct in saying that a browsing habits track a lot about your personal life,
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so here are a few steps I did follow.
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First I selected strict blocking under content blocking.
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Next I did not set my history settings to use custom settings for history and always
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use private browsing mode, though this may be useful for some people.
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Under Address Bar I left everything unchecked besides search engines, so that when I'm
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in the search bar, I can choose which engine I want to search with.
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You won't get any more search suggestions in the URL bar, but that is part of privacy
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that the author was trying to get across.
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Next check the box and you block origin settings to enable advanced user settings to enable
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more granular control.
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After that you will want to change the default behavior of you block origin to block media
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elements, block remote fonts, disabled JavaScript by checking the boxes for these items.
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I've used these settings for a couple of months now and found that it was a good way to
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block scripts in addition to blocking ads.
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There are a lot of advanced settings that I haven't explored and if you listener find
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use from this and find settings that work for you, feel free to record a show of your
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own or if you would like just make a comment after this show.
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This has been Art or 72 for Hacker Public Radio.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an onesthost.com, the internet archive and
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our syncs.net.
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Onestodwise status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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