This 21:36-long video is chock-full of useful information: use a real VPN (not a free one; be sure of the vendor), hide your real email address wherever possible, stop clicking sponsored links in search results---although he doesn't recommend to use a search engine other than Google---, use an authenticator app for 2FA instead of text messages, etc. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCIo1IyykLQ" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/hCIo1IyykLQ" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Evan Edinger" caption="The Truth About Those Age Verification Pop-Ups"> <pre>0:54 Details of the UK's Online Safety Act 3:19 Recent "unavoidable" Data Leaks 4:55 Why the Online Safety Act Immediately Fails 7:10 <b>How Free VPNs can decrease your data privacy</b> 8:24 How the Online Safety Act is filtering the news 9:10 <b>How the UK Looks on the World Stage in Technology</b> 10:30 <b>How little Parliament seems to know about VPNs</b> 14:25 How to actually keep your data private online 15:16 <b>My best tip for searching Google</b> 17:13 <b>Don't set your 2 factor authentification up wrong</b> 18:09 How an Internet Router and VPN Work 20:31 How the UK's Online Safety Act will affect UK businesses</pre> He also doesn't mention using a password manager, which is like the thing you should do. I can't recommend passkeys yet because I haven't started using them yet but I probably could easily do it with ProtonPass. Will this advice keep you safe? The title of my article says "more safely." There is no guarantee. But it's better than using the the same password everywhere and clicking on everything in sight. Building awareness helps. The other day, I was logging in to an issue-tracker for a vendor and noticed that my password manager wasn't offering to help me log in. It was because I wasn't on the vendor web-site anymore. The URL was being redirected to another URL. The new URL <i>looked</i> plausible but it was a different FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). So now what? Now what? Now <i>you don't log in</i>. Instead, I wrote to the vendor and they immediately responded to apologize for the inconvenience: they're having trouble with their own domain name, so they had to use the redirect for now. In this scammy world of scams, it is best to exercise an overabundance of caution. The thing that you think you want to do isn't important enough for you to give up everything else. Scammers like to instill time-pressure and panic. Don't give in to it. Take a breath. Think about it. Verify through another channel. <img src="{att_link}internet_security.webp" href="{att_link}internet_security.webp" align="none" scale="60%">