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by advisedwang 1336 days ago
There's plenty of reasons non-technically savvy may want to be anonymous:

* Don't want companies building a profile on them

* Writing under a pen name and don't want to accidentally link it to real name

* Researching a topic that might result in peers/society judging them badly

* Want to price shop without companies raising prices because of their browsing (I don't think this happens, but it's a common fear/accusation)

* Activists worried about being spied on

* Person with some suspicious looking connections who doesn't want that to reflect onto them (perhaps you have a cousin that joins a enemy of your country - you didn't do anything but just want to email your family about news without getting on a watch list)

* Doing illegal things and don't want to get caught

In fact I'm kind of struggling to think what reason for anonymity is unique to the technically savvy... pirating?

1 comments

It is unique because most websites rely on JS and no extensions really exist to try to hide or randomize all the information JS leaks.