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> I don't know about you, but I don't want to do all of that. [...] I don't recommend being on either extreme of this spectrum.

It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online. Of course, completely sanitizing your online presence is difficult, and probably unnecessary. I thought the two lists were a nice rhetorical framing - present a dilemma (total openness vs. total anonymity) and then wiggle out of it to a compromise.

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> It's a list of extreme techniques for protecting ones' identity online.

The items I quoted do nothing to protect ones' identity online. Snark is only effective if relevant.

The closed nature of MacOS and Windows means that you have no guarantees (and no audit mechanism) to determine how much the machine is passing your data back to HQ. As the post very clearly states, most people don't need to care - but someone with extreme paranoia has only one obvious choice here.

Your aggressive negativity is far less interesting than this blog, and serves no purpose whatsoever.

holy cow! I literally laughed out loud when i read the rainforest remark. Chill out dude, you're reading something called 'Thoughts' by some random dude on the internet lol

Of course they do. On top of being OSS and easier to inspect and analyse, Linux is less likely to be a target, there is no online account connected to your system account

Living in the rainforest is an extra step to get outside of spying jurisdictions. As long as something doesn't eat you.

I found it funny. This wasn't a technical document.

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