Thread for Speakeasy tips
Browsers
- Works: Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, MS Edge, Brave
- Works, but with issues: Opera
- Doesn’t work: Tier 3 browsers, Tor Browser
Browser privacy
- Disable Incognito/Private mode (Speakeasy encrypts some of its cache in browser cache, which private mode disables)
Add-ons/extensions
- None are required with your own or official instance (there’s no tracking or ads)
- Extensions may run as long as they don’t interfere with Speakeasy, but may spy on you
- Brave Shield may need to be disabled for the Speakeasy web site
Profiles
- One way to avoid extensions is to create a Speakeasy profile and use it only for Speakeasy
- Another is to have a separate Speakeasy-only browser
Clicking on links in Speakeasy
- Don’t do it - you may leave tracks, de-anonymize yourself, or even get hacked
- If you have to do it, copy the link, paste it in Tor browser running in an isolated environment
Direct Messages (DM)
- Enable them on a per-channel basis
- You don’t need to enable DM to be able to send DMs to a person who has them enabled (e.g. a customer without DM enabled can DM a Support Rep who has DM enabled)
Speakeasy over Tor
- Not much value if you use the official Speakeasy instance and don’t click on links (or, if you paste links to Tor Browser before you visit them)
- It is possible to use a regular browser and connect to Speakeasy (and browse the Web) via Tor Socks 5 proxy. This is less secure than using native Tor browser, but it provides the convenience of using the same browser for Speakeasy and browsing