The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

How I learned to start worrying and love privacy anonymity

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This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities. It is written with hope for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed, censored, harassed anywhere! This guide has no affiliation with the Anonymous [Wikiless] [Archive.org] collective/movement.

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