[cm2187]

What I would like to know if how much of this tracking is not blocked by installing something like Spybot's Anti-Beacon (https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/) and using a Local Account. If all it takes is to install a similar tool when I buy a new machine, it's not a big deal. There are many other tools I need to install anyway (winrar, etc).

[andrewchambers]

you don't need winrar, 7zip is far better.

[michaelbuddy]

can 7-zip reassemble those split rar files where you get r01, r02 and so on?

[soylentcola]

Yep. I just ran across one of those .rars the other day and was surprised that it wouldn't decompress properly. Then I realized I hadn't tried to unzip one of those on that particular computer in a long time and my version of 7zip was just really out of date. Updated to the current version and it worked fine.

[talmand]

You don't need 7zip, it's much better to unpack manually.