starting to use everything on Incognito, with a VPN, and (thinking) of switching to TOR.
a heck of a privacy that will be, but the cost of the Speed(Bandwidth) will be terrible.

You should think about something like pihole to filter all ad and tracking domains at dns-level. Just if you think that it's not secure enough yet ;).

@bosi i just wanted to know, whether, getting all that private is really justifiable at the cost of that terrible speed.

@Swarup Its all question of what you need privacy from? A hacker will need extreme anonymity to not let others back track to them. A normal user does not want sites to track the usage patterns. It all depends on what type of work you do on net and from whom you want to hide.

Tor is just good for extreme privacy. There too you need to disable JavaScript and never expose your own identity. For normal users tor is a bit extreme.

If you want to change OS, take a look at Tails (https://tails.boum.org/). That should do you just fine.

Second for Tails (or Heads, because I hear Systemd has an NSA backdoor).

Also, just using TOR is not enough, best way is through VPN

@RiderExMachina
VPN is VERY NOT ENOUGH.

TOR is way better then a VPN

@RiderExMachina @Linux I think he was saying using both..?

@taylorviktorya
It actually does not make any difference :)

@Linux just pointing it out :)

@taylorviktorya
Thanks for clarifying :)

@Swarup
I have actually have a relay running for the last month (8 month), + I also had three exit nodes on different datacenters relaying almost 1000TB data every month.

@freedev Why would tor be extreme for normal users? My parents use it regularly for normal web searches because I recommended them to use it for general privacy.

OP, I'm a heavy tor/vpn user myself, I use incognito regularly, have loads of addons to prevent tracking and so on. It's not a question of whether you need it as being a techie or non techie or whatsoever, it's about whether you are (or not) comfortable with your data being sold out to certain levels. @jpichardo, @matsaki95

I feel like tor gets kind of faster over time. The first time I used it in like 2012 it was just terrible and now I can browse just fine

@Linux
Good to know. I've been hanging around /cyb/+/sec/ lately, and apparently some people there are still learning their stuff (like me).