While we could preach to go off the grid altogether to leave no trace at all, which is hardly compatible with a modern lifestyle. One could say that you should stop using anything traceable - stop using the credit cards, stop using mobile phones - but it will not be very useful, and the burden will quickly be unbearable for all but the most devout. Instead, here are five tools you can use in your daily life, it now appears that will rapidly increase significantly your level of privacy:
TOR Long a tool of choice for hostile dissidents. schemes, it is a little difficult to implement, and should be carefully validated to be set up correctly, but is one of the strongest anonymizers the network level and the guards privacy there. When configured correctly, that all traffic routes in a series of additional encrypted random jumps around the planet, and your IP address appear to be from somewhere completely different. completely random, even. There will be no linkage whatsoever between your real IP and your IP apparent or apparent between your IP and real identity, which is the effect we desire. Read more about the TOR project.
Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Virtual Private Networks also replace your real IP address with an IP address apparent, but do so in a single encrypted hop. This makes it much faster than digital in most cases. However, VPN services are provided by many different actors, and each of them are not die hard to privacy -. There have been cases where less serious VPN providers retained newspapers and happily handed over the identification information to hostile authorities
Remember that what we want to avoid is the coupling between the IP address apparent and your identity, therefore an absolute requirement is that the VPN provider keep no log either of its connections. The problem with this requirement is that it is impossible to verify if what you want to look for is a VPN provider who merely claims that it does not keep all the papers, but also does not need your identity sign up for a VPN connection, denying any linkage between your identity and the VPN service used - if the supplier does not have your identity in the first place, you should not trust anyone.
Zero confidence is a very good principle on these issues. This does not mean that you do not trust anybody; it means you do not do need to trust anyone, that trust was made irrelevant.
You should not have to trust anyone to behave well with your data - it is much better if they did not. For this, in particular, look for VPN providers who accept bitcoin payment instead of a (personal!) Credit Card. If you are really concerned about traceability, you can purchase bitcoin ATM fees with money for this use, yet reducing traceability. Coin ATM radar shows some of them.
Adblockers. They do not work on the network level but at the level of user data. Good adblocker will remove much of the monitoring happens between sites, advertising networks, closing your computer altogether. I recommend the classic Adblock Plus plugin Chrome / Chromium and Firefox on desktop systems / laptop. Mobile, this is still something of a problem.
Ghostery. In addition to a adblocker, it also helps to have a plugin that removes the remaining tracking tags used to link your visits between sites. Ghostery is a classic here, available as a plug-in for Firefox and Chrome / Chromium.
Signal. Last but not least, sometimes we also want to secure private messaging with friends and associates. The go-to choice there Signal Open Whisper Systems, available for Android and iOS. It provides both messaging and ciphertext encrypted voice calls, and the extremely handy feature to detect when a person messaging you also installed and switching signals in encrypted mode.
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