VPN's DNS server from reputable service from here https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/. I should have tried visiting this website using Tor browser too at that time, archive.today doesn't even load for me right now using my VPN...
> the development happens on the lead developer's feature branch
Oof. This makes me cringe so hard. I once took over a project (but the developer didn't know they were getting fired) and the guy was doing everything on his laptop, from his laptop. Deployments and builds were from his laptop. Even dependencies weren't checked into the code (using global installs of them on unknown versions). The owner had me come in because after talking to several people realized he was in a bad place.
It took me ~2 months to learn everything and document all the things. Then the owner fired him. That guy kept development back for so long by simply not documenting/sharing code and configuration. Now there's an entire team with a healthy development flow. But wow, I had some flashbacks reading that...
I've used CoolReader in the past, and recently suggested its sucesslr LxReader[0] to my partner, while I like the simplicity in MuPdf[1]. What do you think are the biggest advantages of Book Story? I might give it a try.
But windows will always introduce more telemetry tracking and Recall. If you want to have privacy and not be surveilled by Microsoft/Windows, use Linux.
Thanks for mentioning Fort. I've never heard of it but I'm an avid user of Simplewall. Looks like I will need to take a close look now. Thank God it's not another crapp written in Electron.
I would recommend Fort, back when i ran windows i tried all the available firewall and simplewall ended up being buggy after some times.
Fort worked perfectly, it had more settings and once you took the time to set it up you could just save the rules, the configuration and export it to another computer.
I'm bearish on introducing noise[0] to resist traffic analysis, and I'm exceptionally bearish when the only layer managing noise injection is "a for-profit entity that can be legally compelled to do things"
But every layer helps; I'd feel more than happy torrenting over Mullvad alone, and I'd definitely use it as an additional layer of defense with other tools to keep me private if my threat model needed to consider stronger risks.
They are one of the least "deGoogled" ROMs out there[1]. If you want the only real "deGoogled" OS that prioritizes security and privacy, use GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/.
