I figure this would be a good place to ask. Im not paranoid but I say a ton of stupid stuff on the Internet. It’s fun having conversations with total strangers after work 😁. Anyway, I was thinking. Could I keep a level of anonymity if I just created new accounts every month for example? Is that a thing people use? Like every month you just abandon your bs account and get a completely new account on google. Google specifically since they are the assholes that keep selling our data.
I haven’t had a Google account for over a year and a half now and I stopped primarily using the one I did have in 2019 and would only log into it like once a year.
Gerald, is that you?
Depends who you’re trying to avoid.
Some downvote brigade on Lemmy? sure.
One of the major databrokers? Probably not.
Google and Meta and such don’t even need you to have an account to build accurate profiles and track you everywhere, so making a new Google account will almost certainly not buy you any real privacy: Google will just add your new account to your profile and keep right on selling your shit.
Google will just add your new account to your profile and keep right on selling your shit.
This is exactly why I used a pseudonym from the outset.
From what I understand it doesn’t matter, that’s just a label they assign to all the data they have about you. Attaching all of that to your real name is trivial once they have the profile.
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Except for Meta, Alphabet, Russia, China, Israel, the NSA and your ISP. But no one else knows
or care.
Tor if you dont want your fediverse server + ISP to know who you are on the fediverse. Other than that, fediverse people are not likely to use google trackers, so you should be safe without having to make new accounts constantly. Noscript for all other websites, gets rid of trackers very effectively, but a bit annoying because you have to whitelist the javascript you need.
You need to start reducing your fingerprint on internet.
The only reliable way to do so is selfhosting your stuff.
There are a few communities here in lemmy, so check on them
I selfhosted my photos! That makes me so very happy honestly.
