Efforts to go invisible attract attention.
I do wish the stupid EU cookie acceptance GDPR stuff was much smarter. Such a pain to hit websites and click through legal agreements to get anywhere. There is probably a chrome app to do this for you?
I think there are ways to passively reduce the impact, but actively attempting to remove data will certainly attract attention.
I would give up on the idea and choose to be digitally perverse instead. It takes little to no effort and often happens despite an effort not to be.
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If you pay tax, have a doctor, a bank, etc you can rest assured you canât be invisible. So basically everyone.
Maybe going invisible is to far out. I know thats impossible and I am hung up in so many services with my real name that are already connected to my email and stuff. My dataset is complete 
But I will try to minimise my traces from now on as much as possible, lets put it this way.
In kontrast going pervert seems like a good idea too. I have not so much a problem with sharing too much, but I donât like some tracking pixel not to ask and track what I do, make profiles and stuff.
Maybe its more about a little bit more control. But I am just not educated enough to know every form of tracking there is and stuff. But the topic is always relevant I think. Seems like most poeple have just given up somehow.
Bank cards too. Companies are able to get access to card transaction data and perform on the fly analysis to determine your age, interests, income, ethnicity, etc.
They donât even need your medical data to determine your health status, it can be reliably determined from your purchase history.
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Most popular VPNs like NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN and probably even more brands that we donât even know yet are in fact developed by the same company called Tesonet. Itâs an absolute monopoly out here. They also have this other product that is a data gathering platform and that doesnât seem like a very big âcoincidenceâ.
These VPNs are the last place to look for privacy, in my opinion. I would never trust or use any of these productsâŚ
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I honestly donât think there is anything you can do. I donât trust VPNs either. The idea that governments and associated intelligence agencies would allow VPNs to exist to allow citizens to operate âunder the radarâ is frankly ludicrous. Itâs akin to a modern day version of the Catholic church allowing âindulgencesâ to people who could pay to have their âsinsâ overlooked. All of these digital systems are completely porous and everything is recorded somewhere.
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Another less difficult and actually fun stragity is to spread disinformation about yourself. Create a bunch of profiles on social media and forums, etc., using the same name but with each account create differing narratives about your life. Like one youâre a sheep herder from Zurich who is actually vegan and another that is a gigging IMD artist from Azerbaijan who tours with a pet ferret named Kierkegaard.
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They are always watching.
Your phone microphone is always on, always listening, even if you turn it off.
There are hidden cameras in your TV and monitor.
There is someone in the closet right now.
Lizard aliens took your loved ones and replaced them with a replicant.
Your neighbours only exist when you look at them.
The cat in the box is dead until you open it.
There is nothing you can do. Do you hear me?
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
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If I canât see you, you canât see me
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There are people who can within 5 minutes of knowing one of your online profile names, have all of your information. If you think a VPN can stop them, best of luck, the key really is not making yourself interesting enough for them to bother.
At some point the AI will become so advanced that it will be able to calculate everything that ever happened to anyone ever and administer justice accordingly⌠Itâs too late to say youâre sorry. On the bright side nothing really exists and itâs all a dream.
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The truth is you canât become invisible. And you havenât been invisible since birth.
However you can be so boring nobody cares. Hide amongst the crowd as it were.
I spent two years interviewing engineers at big tech firms for a book I doubt Iâll finish. The upshot was - privacy has been extinct for a while now.
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Who needs the right to be forgotten when nobody remembers you?
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So you are in my closet then.
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Yes, but on the other hand for me as absolute non-expert its surprising that it seems not so easy to watch what kids and other good or bad people can do on telegram and/or tor. good things but also bad stuff for them and society. Also interesting i think whatsapp uses some encryption now developed by the signal guy, his hobbies are anarchism, sailing and sailing for anarchists i think.
Sure those cables under the sea and chip-backdoors are an easy target for all secret services etc, but the above is surprising to me.
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Thatâs one of the worst arguments Iâve seen repeated in Youtube ânative advertisingâ copy, VPNs can be useful for geoblocked content or some abstraction of IP but if youâre just logging into Facebook or similar advertising networks, changing your IP is not materially changing what the warehouse has on you.
It really depends on who is wanting to watch. For Tor, running compromised nodes is an easy way to monitor traffic.
For Telegram, the usual social engineering will grant access to any community.
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