I always thought that VPN (or any other means of hiding your IP) is a necessary but not sufficient step to prevent online tracking. Is this not correct? I don’t think that using GChrome with a VPN will do much, in the same way as using hardened browsers without VPN will do much. It might depend on the thread model.

I haven’t seen Nord being recommended in a privacy focus forum in forever. Not sure about their relationship with law enforcement, but I had the understanding that they would benefit from selling your data. Might have to research a bit more before my protonvpn renewal comes.

This site might just solve the main issue I had with discoverability in Lemmy, thanks!