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»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
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How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more anonymously.

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

😱 Sci-fi Meets Eldritch Horror in Deck Builder Chaos Zero Nightmare
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2025/tokyo-game-show/sci-fi-meets-eldritch-horror-in-deck-builder-chaos-zero-nightmare/.2…

»Anonyme E-Mails versenden — So schützen Sie Ihre Privatsphäre im Netz:
Anonyme E-Mails können Ihre Privatsphäre schützen. Verschiedene Tools und Methoden bieten effektive Möglichkeiten, um die eigene Identität zu verschleiern.«
Die meisten Menschen hier kennen und nutzen es sicherlich schon. Schade, dass die nicht auch OpenPGP für E-Mail Verschlüsselung erwähnen. Es geht ja immer darum wie was wann weshalb mensch es einsetzt.
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Privatsphäre und Identität schützen: So senden Sie E-Mails ganz anonym
Anonyme E-Mails können Ihre Privatsphäre schützen. Verschiedene Tools und Methoden bieten effektive Möglichkeiten, um die eigene Identität zu verschleiern.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
Makary pushed back on the request to force policy and research staffer Sanjula Jain-Nagpal out of the agency, officials told POLITICO.
“She is an employee at the FDA, and that has not changed,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon sai…

I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical.
The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣

„Nicht akzeptabel“ - Warum Kiew US-Friedensplan nicht annehmen kann #News #Nachrichten

Während der aktuell laufenden #Datenspuren macht das @… wieder fabelhafte Arbeit! 🫶 👍
Die Aufzeichnung des Vortrags "Git-basierte sachliche Online-Diskussionen" von gestern Nachmittag war schon kurz danach Online:

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.