How to be invisible on the internet

[Ron]

I know, not possible. I ran across this link and did learn a couple things though. I had no idea you could turn off the collection of data and formation of targeted ads in android.



https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-07/how-be-invisible-internet

[Ben]

They left out VPN.

[RoadKingLarry]

Much easier to have a very visible and (mostly) benign online presence that doesn't suggest you're a  "whack-job" or threat to a tyrannical government.
If you don't want "them" to know about it don't put it on the interwebz.

[Ron]

Much easier to have a very visible and (mostly) benign online presence that doesn't suggest you're a  "whack-job" or threat to a tyrannical government.
If you don't want "them" to know about it don't put it on the interwebz.

QFT

They can still profile you by browsing habits, locations and purchases.

[Hawkmoon]

This is outdated advice. Since the European Union has enacted rules requiring sites to allow visitors to "opt in" on cookies, more and more sites won't allow you to view or visit without agreeing to accept their cookies. So if your browser is set to reject cookies, you'll just get more pop-ups asking you to accept their cookies before you can access the site.

[brimic]

Much easier to have a very visible and (mostly) benign online presence that doesn't suggest you're a  "whack-job" or threat to a tyrannical government.
If you don't want "them" to know about it don't put it on the interwebz.

As a friend once told me- keep the noise to signal ratio high by using social media to post lots of food pictures and cat recipes.

[Ron]

This is outdated advice. Since the European Union has enacted rules requiring sites to allow visitors to "opt in" on cookies, more and more sites won't allow you to view or visit without agreeing to accept their cookies. So if your browser is set to reject cookies, you'll just get more pop-ups asking you to accept their cookies before you can access the site.

If I really want to read the article or visit the site I accept the cookies. I’m using the Duck Duck Go mobile browser so I just dump everything periodically. Not a perfect solution I know.

[Ben]

This is outdated advice. Since the European Union has enacted rules requiring sites to allow visitors to "opt in" on cookies, more and more sites won't allow you to view or visit without agreeing to accept their cookies. So if your browser is set to reject cookies, you'll just get more pop-ups asking you to accept their cookies before you can access the site.

My SOP when that happens (and yeah, I've seen a big uptick) is to tell the site to go jump in the lake. I simply stop visiting sites that want me to jump through hoops. I managed to live ~35 years of my life with no internet at all. If I don't visit one out of a bajillion websites, no big loss.