8 Steps to Becoming Pretty Much Anonymous Online

 

In the 21st century anonymity it’s not about staying at home alone and no one will know what are you doing, it’s all about your privacy on the Internet.
1. Use app which called Signal

Signal is truly the best private encrypted messenger (yes, it's not Telegram).  It is a simple messenger, the key point about it — privacy and cryptography. His coding is incredible, better than anything you can find. Of course, a powerful organization will know that you are using a signal, but in any case, there is nothing better and more useful for personal communication.

2. Use Tor (pretty easy to predict)

Tor is the most popular and influential browser in the world. with truly amazing flexibility in metadata. However, for some reason, Tor doesn't make you 100% anonymous as some people think. but still the best The browser works on TCP only, and you can't log into all Tor sites because some sites block access. As it doesn't offer 100% performance, there is always a dual or trial use as a VPN tunnel, but it's mobile-friendly.

3. Don’t wait anonymity from VPNs
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VPN is not anonymous. Yes, it’s true. It provides some seasonal things like accessing blocked sites in your country or other related things when your access is blocked but you still need to go there. It changes your IP address. For example, Tor distributes your traffic across network nodes located in different parts of the Internet, while VPN translates your traffic to its own servers, so your ISP can still see what you're doing, and you don't change anything on your end. Remember, if the VPN server is hacked, the hackers have your traffic.

4. Only use zero-knowledge services, if possible

Maybe you did not know, but all internet giants like Dropbox, Google, Office 365 can read everything you save and write, and they do that, we know that from Snowden reports, so they strongly cooperate with the FBI. There is no privacy with these services. You can encrypt everything before using these services, but zero-knowledge sites are easy to use Some examples are Spiderwalk (as an alternative to Dropbox) and Protonmail (personal email), it's not a panacea, but it's a lot better.
5. Think first — post next

This is really simple, but super important step. Everything that you ever posted can be founded and used against you. It starts from just text posts to photos, addresses, mobile phones, videos, date of birth, full name, and more and more. Want to be anonymous? — Do not post, do not use the real name, do not use real information, always control what you are while surfing on the internet.

6. Always check app permissions

When you start using apps, apps ask for permissions, which are needed for the normal work of the app, but sometimes they use really strange things. They are always collecting information about you, to create big data collections — mostly for advertisers, but this FBI easily will get this information and any other skilled persons can get it too. Even a simple app asks for a microphone, geo location or your address book, better just do not to use these apps, but it’s hard to stop using all of these on IOS, so better use android.

7. Use an ad blocker
You should use any of the ad blockers. Whenever you click on ads, they collect data about you, about your PC, browser, and other information which can be used against you, better do not give them that chance. Just download extensions, there are a lot of them.
8. Dump your home assistant
Home assistants became really popular in the last few years, but the main problem about them – is they hear and collect everything you say and send it to their servers, perfect crime, isn’t it? Nothing to discuss, just use it.