Yea I do what I feel is reasonable. Im very ocd with keeping devices clean. And I find using tor or a vpn just is unpleasant. I will occasionally for certain things if I feel the need, and def use tor to connect to my Start9 server but I use my real name and show my face so that alone I really dont see the point of me going overboard.
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What do you think about antivirus, someone on YouTube was suggesting it could be a man in the middle, but I don't know what to make of this suggestion.
I stopped using AV early 2000s while still running Windows and never had an issue