ahana666 said:
Linux is a better thing for sure, but HEY famous distros like ubuntu,mint,debian.. are still not so safe.
If you really want to be safe DON'T use operating systems such as TAILS, whonix,qubes ... because these are the most famous and everything you do is logged.
A cool thing to do is crypt your hard drive in AES 256. I did that, you can do this on Windows, it can add you a big layer of security, but the problem is that the OS gets really slow.
I would not trust any vpn too, but I raccomend NordVPN - ProtonVPN.
Tor is the " classic " but is slow as fuck, and it's full of jews, and there are a lot of evil nodes in there.
What about what Oi Argedco Luciftias said? That the spying system is built in the processor of the device. I rather believe that all the trackers and spying softwares are installed in the OS system and they are running in the background without us realizing it, for example the keyloggers which record everything we write with the keyboard.
As about the VPNs, I have a paid license Cyber Ghost VPN and I'm quite happy about it. All the time I enter my email or anything else with the VPN, the websites receive all the time the location of where I'm connected to, not my real location. For example Yahoo showed me last time the history of my log ins and all the different locations that I connected to, and different devices.
Like Paris, Paris IP, Google Chrome (while I'm using Opera) and some device name that I have no idea about
This is what the websites get about me while using the VPN. Also because I use private mode the history of websites and searches is not recorded or maybe not even tracked by my internet provider since I connect to a different IP before I access the browser.
But the thing is, this is only what I see on the surface. I don't know what Cyber Ghost is doing with my data while I use it. I assume they store the search history while I use it.
As about Linux, what I will do is to make a bootable USB pendrive with a Linux package, not sure which one exactly. Might not be 100% safe but it 100% better than Windows 10. Even the company where I work doesn't use Windows 10. I read that even a French government department sent a formal notice to Windows a while ago to stop collecting so much users data with Win 10. I must get rid of it. Someone said above about what is called a live bootable USB stick, but this would mean to keep Win 10 where it is, which I can't really allow anymore.