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Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains)

Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account

By Michael Altfield
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/

This guide will describe how to setup a persistent browser (for Evil Corp) that's isolated in a sandbox (with firejail) and forced to use a SOCKS5 proxy to retain a static IP address (using proxychains)

Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site, Browser
Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site, Browser

Have you ever been locked out of your own account, and then got an email for your service provider annoyingly letting you know that they've "blocked a login attempt -- for your protection?"

There's countless reports of frustrated users who have permanently lost access to their own gmail accounts because of Google's faulty "fraud protection" systems that locked the account owner out of their own account, due to false-positives.

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[–] French75@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

I solved this problem by taking all my shit out of Google. The only service of theirs I still use is YouTube, and I don't lose much if they lock me out of that.