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I've noticed the number of places that let you use ephemeral accounts has really dwindled. Spam, marketing, LE, and I am sure other reasons have it so persisten
by onetimeusename 4y ago
I've noticed the number of places that let you use ephemeral accounts has really dwindled. Spam, marketing, LE, and I am sure other reasons have it so persistent accounts are more common. So creating a persona is probably the easiest way to be somewhat anonymous online but it's getting harder to create unlinked accounts (using new phone numbers and unlinked to your other accounts) and when it crosses into the real world like with shipping products it gets weird. Your mailman might think a stranger is living with you.
- ghaff 4y ago>when it crosses into the real world like with shipping products it gets weird. Your mailman might think a stranger is living with you. Not really a problem. A friend of mine used my address (with permission) when they were doing a lot of international travel. Mail (and packages) were never an issue. These days you'd probably be advised to have some sort of burner phone. In general, the closer you get to the physical world, the harder it is to maintain anonymity.
- philwelch 4y agoA fun book about this stuff is Michael Bazell’s Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America. With extreme effort you can keep a surprising number of things unlinked from your government name if you really want to.
- ghaff 4y agoThanks for the link. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this a few years back after seeing on of the hosts of the reality show Hunted (former White House CIO) give a talk. There was a long Wired article on this topic years ago too. https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/ https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/
- JohnFen 4y ago> Your mailman might think a stranger is living with you. All the better! I don't know why this would be a problem.