Nice guide, this is like a platonic ideal of anonymity we'd like to have but never will.<p>Years of using FB when I was younger, general lapses in judgement or overlooks in privacy when in tense or pressing situations, compromises I've made in using services with certain people or jobs, many regretful apps or purchases and sign ups, years of my email and phone number shared to 3rd parties, I could go on...<p>And that's just the data I've shared knowingly, mostly due to the social contract when functioning in certain groups. The odds are stacked up against an individual.<p>The reason I mentioned that it's a platonic ideal is because it takes a lot of education and experience for one to even _know_ how to be anonymous—we're not born a priori with an understanding of privacy wrt technology, and we don't learn about tech privacy early say compared to privacy in the physical world. Maybe older folk that were wise to all of these violations as they became prevalent, but younger people are already profiled and marketed to before they understand any of these concepts—it's so dire. I think an approach that may work is for the blocking and scrubbing to be on the hardware and software vendors level with privacy-options baked in and set as default. A given, sort of like how you expect a bathroom stall to be private.<p>Another solution, assuming we can't escape being tracked, would be to weaponise our data with tools like trackmenot[0] and adnauseam[1].<p>1. <a href="https://trackmenot.io" rel="nofollow">https://trackmenot.io</a><p>2. <a href="https://adnauseam.io" rel="nofollow">https://adnauseam.io</a>