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by kleer001 1820 days ago
Can you be more specific? What kinda of data? Financial? Shopping info? Personal history? Relationship with others? Online comments? What are your limits and what would you be happy with? What are you willing to give up and what do you need to keep hold of?

Then, what have you found so far and how is it not working for you? Are you familiar with EFF.org ?

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Well, my primary goal is to get rid off my personal information. It could/should conatin things like comments i made or shopping accounts I created but it's not the primary goal (for this moment).

I followed the logic that if I delete my personal data (google records, facebook records, ad records) other data would be affected too since the reference data is lost but I might be wrong with that conclusion. I'm just trying to: 1. Get rid off my personal data (Anything that represents myself on the internet)

2. Delte anything that might be associated with me (accounts created with gmail, facebook linked accounts reddit account) (Basically deleting anything I posted with pseudonyms but is linked to my person)

3. Start a private life on internet (join privacy oriented social networks, services etc.)

I hope this make at least some sense.

Anyhow, thanks for the eff.org mention, that's the privacy juice I'm craving.

From what I recall of my trip down the deep paranoia rabbit hole your best bet is to:

A) Only use temporary virtual machines to access the internet.

B) Use Tor the right way, which is very difficult.

C) Use VPNs liberally

D) Pay for everything from one-off accounts like visa gift cards

But that's exhausting and full of friction at every step. Basically pretending that a State interest is after you, like you're a criminal. Best of luck!

IMHO whatever is out there is out there, you have no control of it anymore. And, the internet is forever.

IMHO I'd rather poison my information that delete it. Fill it full of useless cruft and things that aren't actually you. That's easier.