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by urbushey 3745 days ago
What's the analogue for "clearing your cookies"?
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Go to every business you've ever visited, go to their filing cabinet, and remove every record that you've been there. Go to every library and bookstore and remove every record of things you've read and bought. Etc.

That's not the same as cancelling all your accounts and credit cards; you'd still have them, just not your visit data.

The most extreme thing you could do in the real world is delete your identity and start over from birth.