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I’ve got plenty to hide, and I hide all my most prized things as best as I can.

I enjoy obfuscating things s much as possible just to be a tiny grain of sand of irritation in big data’s crotch.

I’m also maybe a bit oppositionally defiant but I enjoy hiding my shit. Why does anyone assume a right to know everyone’s business?



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Not OP, but one thing I do is having a fake name on my mailbox and doorbell. I figured my neighbours don't need to know, and parcel services don't care. I don't legally live on that address, so that helps.

I also try to keep my browser's headers more generic, especially the Accept-Language header (not applicable or particulary helpful for US residents, though). The rest (VPN, [and therefore] no Google and no social networks) I wouldn't consider an obfuscation.


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To my fake name (from family and friends), anything official goes to the mailbox at my real address to which I have access to. But that rarely happens thanks to e-government. Because of presumed delivery, there's no benefit in receiving that kind of mail on paper, so I opted-in.

For e-mail, I use a domain with a catch-all mailbox. I rot13 the service name or whatever in the local-part to identify where the e-mail got leaked/sold from, which I feel like happens more often than not when buying anything from small e-shops.


> Can you elaborate what you exactly obfuscate ?

I would be very disappointed by grandparent if he/she actually does that.




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