[diminoten]

Protecting your privacy is literally impossible. People will squirm, people will say they do it, but none of it is true. People just hate to not be in control, and so they'll justify their inane behaviors as "protecting my privacy!" when in reality, there is literally no successful known way to do such a thing.

If there were a successful way to protect information, it'd be known and used.

But there isn't. All you can do is make it harder. It's not apathy, it's reality.

[hawkharris]

I protect my privacy dozens of times every day: closing my blinds, signing out my email account, encrypting some personal documents, locking my car doors.

This is not to say that a government agency couldn't crack my encryption, or break into my car, but I take small reasonable steps to protect my property and information.

Protecting and guaranteeing beyond a doubt are two distinct concepts. When people create a false dichotomy between these things, they give themselves a license to not even try.

[diminoten]

That's, almost literally, what I just said.

[kordless]

From a technical perspective, if you were lurking just inside a black hole's event horizon you would be completely anonymous. :)