How to be More Anonymous Online

upstart writes:

Being fully anonymous is next to impossible-but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules:

On the internet, everyone wants to know who you are. Websites are constantly asking for your email address or trying to place tracking cookies on your devices. A murky slurry of advertisers and tech firms track which websites you visit, predicting what your interests are and what you may want to buy. Search engines, browsers, and apps can log each search or scroll you make.

At this stage of the internet, being totally anonymous across your entire online life is incredibly hard to achieve. Phones, SIM cards, browsers, Wi-Fi networks, and more use identifiers that can be linked to your activity. But there are steps you can take to obscure your identity for everyday browsing.

If you're looking to be truly anonymous or to protect your identity for a specific purpose-such as whistleblowing or activism-you should consider your threat model and individual security situation. But many of the changes you can make, which are listed below, are straightforward switches that can stop you from being tracked as much and apply to most people.

Below is a sampling of suggestions from the article, so click through to see the rest. What ways do you limit your digital fingerprint and where is your line between convenience and privacy?

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