The privacy greenhouse: Cultivating digital anonymity¶
Imagine your personal data is a rare orchid in a vast, overgrown botanical garden. Corporate poachers, government landscapers, and algorithmic weeds all want to catalog, clone, or crush your fragile blooms.
Here’s how to tend your greenhouse.
- The garden layout: Threat model
- 2025 Climate report
- Tending your orchids: Countermeasures
- How to keep your anonymous data separate from your identity
- How to remove your personal info from data broker websites
- Removing metadata from files
- Using cash and privacy-focused payment methods
- How to stop Chrome from tracking your interests (Disable Topics API)
- How to block tracking scripts with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger
- How (and why) to reset your advertising ID regularly
- How to foil facial recognition like a Sci-Fi rebel (because big brother is watching)
- How to protect your email privacy
- The most thorough cleaning method (using ExifTool)
- Minimise long-term data storage
- Stop tracking and sharing personal info via photos
- Quantum-resistant encryption: Why your secrets need future-proofing today
- Block IoT internet access with VLANs (Guest network method)
- VPNs for privacy protection
- For the curious botanist: How they uproot your hidden orchids
- For guerrilla gardeners
Last update:
2025-05-12 12:38