How to disappear from the internet

Re:How to disappear from the internet by rpcope1 on Saturday May 19, 2018 @06:36PM (#17110098)

With as much insanity seems to come with the modern web (and "smart" devices), I feel like there might be a (niche) market for going back to something like Gopher (or a newer, similar variant) where I am imagine this sort of tracking and profiling is harder (and hopefully the content has a higher signal to noise ratio, and is more like the original grassroots web).

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Re:How to disappear from the internet by nine_k on Sunday May 20, 2018 @10:26AM (#17112818)

Turn JavaScript off entirety, only enable it to specific sites.

Works 80% of the time, though. Many sites do client-side JS-based rendering.

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Re:How to disappear from the internet by squiggleblaz on Monday May 21, 2018 @12:45AM (#17116190)

The goal is to not be part of the spyweb and to have another separate safe space. Following your suggestion you get:

(a) to be part of the spyweb - so they can still track you via web requests

(b) not part of an independent net - so there isn't a higher proportion of signal, because the content generators are the same and targeted at generating adrevenue, not independent hobbiests sharing information about their interests.

Consequently I don't think it will work.

Gopher would work in the sense that you would notice the transition from a gopher site to a web site.

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