Show HN: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (Updated to v0.9.8)

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TrackMeNot

Nice guide, this is like a platonic ideal of anonymity we'd like to have but never will. Years of using FB when I was younger, general lapses in judgement or overlooks in privacy when in tense or pressing situations, compromises I've made in using services with certain people or jobs, many regretful apps or purchases and sign ups, years of my email and phone number shared to 3rd parties, I could go on... And that's just the data I've shared knowingly, mostly due to the social contract when functioning in certain groups. The odds are stacked up against an individual. The reason I mentioned that it's a platonic ideal is because it takes a lot of education and experience for one even _know_ how to be anonymous—no one is born a priori with an understanding of privacy wrt technology, and learns it much later, say compared to privacy in the physical world. Maybe older folk that were wise to all this as tracking became prevalent, but now it's so dire I think the only approach is for the hardware and software vendors to bake all this in and make it default. Another solution, since we can't escape being tracked would be to weaponise our data with tools like trackmenot[0], adnauseam[1]. 1. https://trackmenot.io/ 2. https://adnauseam.io.

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AdNauseam

Nice guide, this is like a platonic ideal of anonymity we'd like to have but never will. Years of using FB when I was younger, general lapses in judgement or overlooks in privacy when in tense or pressing situations, compromises I've made in using services with certain people or jobs, many regretful apps or purchases and sign ups, years of my email and phone number shared to 3rd parties, I could go on... And that's just the data I've shared knowingly, mostly due to the social contract when functioning in certain groups. The odds are stacked up against an individual. The reason I mentioned that it's a platonic ideal is because it takes a lot of education and experience for one even _know_ how to be anonymous—no one is born a priori with an understanding of privacy wrt technology, and learns it much later, say compared to privacy in the physical world. Maybe older folk that were wise to all this as tracking became prevalent, but now it's so dire I think the only approach is for the hardware and software vendors to bake all this in and make it default. Another solution, since we can't escape being tracked would be to weaponise our data with tools like trackmenot[0], adnauseam[1]. 1. https://trackmenot.io/ 2. https://adnauseam.io.

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