| 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? |