Comments on: How to Block Google Fonts and More: A Paranoid Schizophrenic’s Guide to Tin Hat SEO

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:06:41 +0000

In reply to Simon Treulle. Nice Danish contribution.

By: Simon Treulle

Simon Treulle — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 17:09:00 +0000

Here are some extra quick tips
– Opera has a plugin called “Install Chrome Extensions” that finally made me switch from Chrome to Opera.
– https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity allows you to prevent Google storing a lot of the data they get on you.
– My favorite Google calendar alternative: “Fantastical” app for iPhone, and “One Calendar” for my windows PC.

Hope this helps some people. 🙂

By: alex

alex — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:17:40 +0000

In reply to Doug. hi Doug could you tell us about airtable ?

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:40:51 +0000

In reply to Joe Graisbery. Glad to help.

By: Joe Graisbery

Joe Graisbery — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:42:15 +0000

I like to put on my “full tin body armor” and never touch my PBNs without dedicated proxies, a bullet-proofed browser, and a separate pc. I am often the butt of jokes for it, but taking an extra 30 seconds here and there to prevent losing my investment is worth the peace of mind. Nice post, Matt.

By: ClueList

ClueList — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 06:07:45 +0000

Can also use element hider to block specific elements within a site: http://i.imgur.com/OssY3wS.jpg
Either throughout all sites or site specific. Can even trim it down to all google elements.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:53:00 +0000

In reply to Syed. Hi Syed. Thanks for the nice words. Somethings though, like business IP, are best kept secret.

By: Syed

Syed — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:18:45 +0000

Great article as always Matt! I recently discovered your blog and became instant fan! 🙂 I have a request, I don’t know if you’ve already made a guide something like creating a PBN that google loves and at the same time escapes manual checks? I would like to know how do you create it from scratch. From how to pick domain name, hosting, IPs, logging in anonymously, setting them up (with topic relevance, keyword usage etc.) and how to write content for them to make them legit at your perfection.
If there’s something you’ve already written, please share link or if not, please write something like this 🙂
Regards,
Syed

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 04:20:15 +0000

In reply to Paul. Click on "Blocking Options". Looks like they updated their UI.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:14:05 +0000

In reply to Paul. Ive installed this on 3 different browsers and still dont get the advanced tab???? https://gyazo.com/dd7438550982dce60d999b1b66bc1f46

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:00:00 +0000

In reply to Ayush. Actually, I've never had to worry about it. Because I took these precautions. That's the point. Whether or not this is useless (probably is) or not, wouldn't you just rather spend a few minutes to have that emotional and mental space back?

By: Ayush

Ayush — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:29:08 +0000

What I am concerned about, is all of this necessary? In your experience have you had to worry about it ever? I know it is good to be on the safe side but just wondering.

Thanks for the article btw. 🙂

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:13:39 +0000

went to go try this out…but my ghost settings page is way different then what you showed..to much work not knowing…lol

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 06:05:43 +0000

In reply to Ashin John. Cool stuff.

By: Ashin John

Ashin John — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:48:12 +0000

I have already applied all 4 suggestions today. I have another thing to share which may help even more in privacy. Opera browser has built in VPN which we can enable if we need. To secure the VPN further, WebRTC leak prevention plugin has to be installed and thus, your IP will be hidden completely. Here is the plugin link – https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/webrtc-leak-prevent/?display=en#

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 01:22:16 +0000

In reply to Jane Freeman. Nice suggestions.

By: Jane Freeman

Jane Freeman — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:06:43 +0000

Solid post Matt, you can never be too paranoid in this game.

I’d also move totally away from gmail and use encrypted mail providers. Here’s a few I use that are free and good:

Safe-mail.net
Protonmail.com
tutanota.com

By: Grant Oster

Grant Oster — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:36:59 +0000

Haha, I had a client once that called me freaking out because I sent him an email that had the word “PBN” in it. From then on out we had code words for PBN. Def Tin hat…

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:41:21 +0000

In reply to Matt Diggity. You might want to have a look at airtable.com

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:03:54 +0000

Great article Matt as always. Thank you! I recommend Vivaldi browser. It’s much faster than Opera although it’s a company owned by Opera Software.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:17:41 +0000

Instead of Opera + Ghostery you could just use the Epic Privacy Browser. I’m a big fan, not just for tin hat SEO purposes. It’s completely tracker and tracer free and comes with a built-in encrypted proxy.
Cheers.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:52:45 +0000

In reply to Bryan. What did you start using instead of Zoho?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:44:53 +0000

I tried using Zoho but it’s soooo slow and I have a semi decent PC with a fast connection. I couldn’t imagine what my VAs were experiencing so stopped using it. But some cool takeaways here!

By: Sia Mohajer

Sia Mohajer — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:27:07 +0000

In reply to Pranav. Pranav, you can use NORD VPN it uses TOR to encrypt the shit out of everything. It's slower than expressvpn but it's great when your hacking government websites or just posting affiliate content for best vacuum cleaners.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:53:56 +0000

In reply to Noman. Hah!

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:53:27 +0000

In reply to Florian. Thanks for the tip.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:53:15 +0000

In reply to Bob. Nice workaround!

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:52:13 +0000

In reply to Pranav. TOR is overkill.

By: Pranav

Pranav — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:41:22 +0000

Hey,Matt,

Super awesome article !! I always do my PBN work with VPN+ Mozila browser. For some PBN’s I do have other browsers too !!
What do you think about TOR browser ? I guess that is also a good solution.
Cheers

By: SEOConsult.ca

SEOConsult.ca — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:17:51 +0000

The best way to solve all paranoic issues is to use one management center for PBNs (or for clusters of PBN). If you don’t need to login to WP dashboards, and visit this websites directly, Google can’t track your behavior on these websites.

By: Anurag

Anurag — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 16:45:21 +0000

Thanks for posting this Matt. I have been using Zoho docs for managing my sites and it is by far the best doc management tool.

I will add the block google fonts to my host file…did now know that we could do that!

To add to what you have already mentioned in the post, look into WebRTC IP leaks. You may want to add this to the list and the plugins to block you real IP showing.

Cheers
Anurag

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:12:37 +0000

Great article – I’d suggest that if you downloaded all the google fonts and saved them in your fonts folder (I’m on a mac so unsure where this is in PC) then the browser will render the sites as expected as they will reference your local copies.

By: Florian

Florian — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:11:39 +0000

I’m not a fan of Ghostery. I would recommend ublock origin. Blocks adds and all the stuff you don’t want. For advanced blocking there is also a plugin called umatrix. Check it out.

By: Gimmy

Gimmy — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:35:16 +0000

Awesome article, I will apply this today
Thank you so much

By: Noman

Noman — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:09:14 +0000

Nothing about UFO’s?