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If you were to create a 'Privacy User Manual' for the internet, what would be your top three essential tips for individuals to protect their online privacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by GreyTechnician@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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For me it would be the following:

Don't reuse usernames/names
Avoid using social media
Use Tor/VPN when you can

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your IP address is everything to companies that track you. It's way easier to automate software to collate data on a range of IP addresses than it is to create bespoke automation or gasp employ somebody to create data points on you. If you're in the habit of identifying yourself online by signing all of your posts with your name, age, and email address, sure, a VPN won't keep you 100% private, and your DNS lookups are still plaintext, but if you change your server periodically and don't provide any details about who you are, what the hell is an ad serving company going to do with a range of known VPN server IP addresses?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. I know Google doesn’t associate an IP address. You can test it in a private window.

Also that would be silly. Most families share an IP address, so your tracking data would be all mixed up for the whole family. And most people’s IP address changes every month or two, so again, your tracking data would be mixed up with the previous family who used that IP.

IP address is nearly useless as a tracking mechanism. You can use it to get someone’s approximate location, and that’s about it.