Can the university see my browsing history if I use incognito mode, but while still connected to IllinoisNet?

• torsocks

  563 498 0.0 C

  Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

You should determine if your concerns are about privacy or about anonymity (or, if both, what mix of the two). To a certain degree, this depends on whether you're worried about being surveilled (a privacy problem) or about being incriminated (an anonymity problem). For example, if you're worried about privacy, then the university and IllinoisNet are the least of your problems: the out-of-the-box settings on Chrome have already screwed you over, and you should consider switching to another user-friendly browser (like Firefox or Brave) that offers (much) better privacy. If what you're worried about is anonymity, then even Firefox or Brave may prove insufficient---for example, try using one of those browsers to take the EFF's Cover Your Tracks test---and you should learn more about the Tor project.

• ivpn.net

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  Official IVPN Website

  

It might sound like overkill, but it doesn't hurt to pick a good VPN while you're choosing your first VPN. In particular, you should avoid a VPN housed in a Five Eyes country (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, or the US). The three VPNs recommended by Privacy Tools are Mullvad (Sweden), Proton (Switzerland), and IVPN (Gibraltar). Many other services are fine. But in all cases, you are switching your informational deference from your base ISP (in this case, IllinoisNet) to your new pay-for-play ISP (your VPN), and you have to rely on faith that the VPN will act to protect your interests if push comes to shove.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• linux-cli-community

  481 1,269 2.6 Python

  Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.

  

It might sound like overkill, but it doesn't hurt to pick a good VPN while you're choosing your first VPN. In particular, you should avoid a VPN housed in a Five Eyes country (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, or the US). The three VPNs recommended by Privacy Tools are Mullvad (Sweden), Proton (Switzerland), and IVPN (Gibraltar). Many other services are fine. But in all cases, you are switching your informational deference from your base ISP (in this case, IllinoisNet) to your new pay-for-play ISP (your VPN), and you have to rely on faith that the VPN will act to protect your interests if push comes to shove.

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