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Maintaining a level of anonymity. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by werefreeatlast@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I figure this would be a good place to ask. Im not paranoid but I say a ton of stupid stuff on the Internet. It's fun having conversations with total strangers after work ๐Ÿ˜. Anyway, I was thinking. Could I keep a level of anonymity if I just created new accounts every month for example? Is that a thing people use? Like every month you just abandon your bs account and get a completely new account on google. Google specifically since they are the assholes that keep selling our data.

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[โ€“] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You need to start reducing your fingerprint on internet.

The only reliable way to do so is selfhosting your stuff.

There are a few communities here in lemmy, so check on them

[โ€“] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only reliable way to do so is selfhosting your stuff.

Aren't you reducing your fingerprint to that specific IP address?

[โ€“] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Even if you have a valid point, modern fingerprinting technics usually is done through your data and the connection dependencies of them (which accounts are activated from the sane computer and so on).

Selfhosting remove some links between your data set like the files you store in drive, the people who appear in your photos, your contact list, to whom you email... Etc etc

Suddenly all this data is vanishing from the big techs, so, in theory it would be possible to make that association process more difficult

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