Fyi incognito still stores the history, only not directly viewable for the user.
Most consumer-grade routers have very limited logging and filtering abilities.
Most consumer-grade routers can easily be configured to send to a remote syslog server. Easily.
They are not tech-savvy, but what if they just called or went to my ISP and asked in person lol?
Having a separate pr0n-only browser is good practice no matter what, as there are a surprising number of people who fap with their devices, close the lid on the laptop, wander off to a presentation with their laptop under their arm, and embarass themselves in front of their peers
fail to see how what browser you use would prevent this.
I’m 99.99% sure the parents would have no idea how to do that, nor even have the hardware to do so.
They are not tech-savvy, but what if they just called or went to my ISP and asked in person lol?
I guess I’ll just use mobile 4G for fapping from now on.
I dunno, I had a $20 dlink router that logged everything but it had to be configured to do so, and for some reason it would not log things from my iPad but OPs mileage may vary.
This is the best answer and solution. That way when you get the email from the dude that packet sniffs and has some/all of your “passcode” threatening to send your browsing history to everyone on your contact list unless you buy them a shit ton of itunes gift cards you can say “zero fucks given” and move on.
This article compares some free vpns. All of the vpns on their list, except for one, have a data limit. They have other restrictions. I haven’t looked into their privacy / data policies but I strongly suspect they somehow compromise that to sell to advertisers to subsidize the “free” part.
Personally, I’m a big of Private Internet Access (r/privateinternetaccess is helpful and has actual PIA staff active there). An annual subscription is $40. Kinja Deals has a “limited time offer” that’s been up for a long time for one year for $35. You can also buy monthly or for a period longer than one year.
I think a paid vpn is worth it because A) you don’t have the limitations of the free ones, and B) the product is the software not the customer’s activity. But that article has some free ones if you wanted to check them out.
I use private VPN and have been nothing but happy with it. Granted it’s not free, it’s only $50 a year for 6 devoces and no logs @all. Not to mention they’re based out of Sweden so any info they have wont be compromised.
For this purpose it’s a solution but generally speaking worth noting that VPN’s aren’t fool proof when it comes to DNS leaks and server logs. Also in this scenario, the end point is vulnerable I.e the parents have access to it.
A more complete solution would be to install Tails on a dedicated faptop.
I believe Opera has a built in VPN service, you may want to look.
It does not. It has some sort of proxy that they call a VPN for marketing purposes.
“If need be your parents might be able to contact the ISP and request a print out of the modems history.” I asked specifically about this on a comment on this thread, and they said ISP won’t give out such info…
funny how the rational suggestion is down-voted.
That’s just crazy talk.
Really? So this way no one or even ISP can’t see?
Is brave the new go-to tor browser?
nope, totally intentional. HTTPS can see that you visited reddit.com, but not midgettits.reddit.com (or reddit.com/r/midgettits) etc.
just mostly pointing out that the ISP could do, if they provide such service to the parents. I know in the UK we have porn blocks on by default with some ISPs, though not sure if they would actually contact account owners if excessive blocks were made. Private mode won’t stop against that.
The only question the OP needs to ask is if their machine has a custom signing authority certificate installed. If so, he’s been busted for a long time now, otherwise it’s not possible that his parents have been cracking TLS sessions.
That said, as other people have noted your DNS queries can give you away, as can the CN fields on the certificate for the TLS exchange. Even if they can’t see exactly what sites you visited, they can tell that you’re asking the internet for the address of xhamster.com or pornhub.com or whatever. Doing a VPN can prevent them from seeing that, but then you have to explain why you have a VPN.