Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously?
An anonymous reader asks:
In an age of evercookies, zombie cookies, and always expanding efforts to track browsers, devices, and people -- is there any way to browse totally anonymous to the sites you are visiting?
With so many technologies quietly monitoring your activity, "How can a user today browse with confidence that they can't be tracked or identified, avoiding even being identified anonymously as a returning user or device?" Leave your best answers in the comments. What's the best way to browse the web anonymously?
With so many technologies quietly monitoring your activity, "How can a user today browse with confidence that they can't be tracked or identified, avoiding even being identified anonymously as a returning user or device?" Leave your best answers in the comments. What's the best way to browse the web anonymously?
Depending on your level of paranoia...
Surf the web with the TOR browser through an anonymizer (IP Scrambler) through VPN on a device that you purchased with cash on someone else's wireless network.
Pick and choose to suit your level of paranoia.
If you act as a "normal user" of your ethnicity, religion, etc., this is the best way to remain "anonymous".
You don't use an anonymizer, anonymous browsing function, etc. because most people don't use them.
Then, when you really need to be "anonymous", you go to a public library or any commercial place that lets you browse the web without registering your ID.
You go there dressed like everyone else or bit cleaner, being nice but not annoying and do what you need to do and leave.
Socially being anonymous is always better than using any technology to remain anonymous because people who are trying to track you are looking for "oddness", not "normalness".