APRIL 2019 PCWorld 99Y
es, you can be anonymous
online. At least under the right
conditions, but it’s not
necessarily easy. Your everyday
identity is constantly being tracked by
accounts you’re logged into, and third-party
advertising companies hoping to better
target ads. That means your favorite browser
is usually filled with trackers to keep tabs on
what you’re doing online.
Plus, who knows what’s going on with
your internet service provider, passive (or
active) government data collection, and all
kinds of other interlopers? The bottom line is
you have to take deliberate steps to ensure a
modicum of anonymity online.
That said, if all you want is an anonymous
email account that no one in your
professional or home life knows about, that’s
not as hard. Still, all it takes is one slip up by
logging in to the email account before you
secure your connection, or accessing yourHow to send anonymous emails
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