Best practice to protect your privacy - VMs or Proxies?

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    Wondering what the general consensus is-how do you protect your privacy online? Do you prefer using a Virtual Machine or just using a separate proxy for your personal life and your work life?
     
    Chad.Kimball, Mar 12, 2014 IP
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    Purchasing a VPN has been of the best decision for me. I use HideMyAss (Premium), and it really helps protecting my privacy online. Its also very useful if I need something thats only available to some countries local(Netflix,Spotify, Hulu) or even when I need to check some random google rankings :)

    One thing that a lot of people don't know that no website can see your MAC address, unless you allow it to run local Java programs. So VPN, clean cookies can offer you a good privacy protection.
     
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    Ya go with VPN this should be enough and less problematic than VM

    Thanks,
    Johnny
     
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    use online proxies they are much easier to use and free of charge example of trustworthy proxy site is https://www.zend2.com

    i used for years this site without problem.
     
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    I used both VPN and online proxies. For VPN i prefer using cyberghost or hidemyass both stable and fast connection. When I'm at work and lots of application is running I use proxies, the one im using is http://freshproxies.co to bypass some site. Both of them are very useful though Im not familiar with virtual machine. But now a days VPN and proxies is enough. Hope it helps.
     
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    Tor is a great way to protect your privacy.
    https://www.torproject.org/
     
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    It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Privacy from who? Using a VPN is probably your best bet.
     
    Krellen, Sep 19, 2014 IP
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    Deffo use vpn and not free proxies!
    Make sure you use recognised software. But remember your mac address is permanent ....checkout http://hidemyipfordownloading.com/
     
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    robbo1000...I agree.

    There are many options so choose carefully. http://www.hideiponline.com has good non biased reviews. Read a bunch of different sites before deciding though.
     
    ghmanz, Nov 21, 2014 IP
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    I use a VPN and/or Tor (using the TorBrowser project). Both are relatively cheap ways to safeguard your privacy.
     
    blank_czech, Dec 6, 2014 IP