So the solution, opt out entirely.

The goal is to increase the cost of mass surveillance to the point that they have to use targeted surveillance again. We don't throw our hands up and say it's all lost, we use what's available.

Not really. You can use a nym, but that only protects your identity from other plebs. There are some benefits to it. The government controls too much to be fooled by simple tricks.

Correct, but you don’t have to make it easy for them.

You must not have your name attached to your ISP. There are ways. Use a VPN router. Mobile phone must be a PAYG sim, unregistered, and no Apple account. Use GrapheneOS. Public WiFi spots would then only know phone#e79y279ee7 has passed by. Not your identity. There are spoofers too if you really need. And use a VPN. Explain cookies on Tor, I don't agree. Idiots use Facebook (although I have used fake profiles in the past). Don't use Apple or Google or Samsung. You don't need them. GrapheneOS. It's a lot of work and you always risk leakage. But 99% of the battle is not to be wanted, so if 1% leaks out, they'll never bother to go on a wild goose chase after you.

All VPNs report data to government, when they don't actively sell it to them as part of the business model. I dealt for years with medical data and the first rule was to never use an off the shelf VPN... ever. When you use a VPN, you are just choosing who can track you. You can make your own VPN, but single users don't get any annonimity from it. You have to have multiple people using it and they can still track the group together. You will always have your name attached to the ISP. You can choose a proxy, but they will track the proxy too. And the proxy better not have worse security than you. By just tracking your over time, they can farily estimate which devices you use. People tend to significantly underestimate how much leaks when somebody is tracking your for a long period of time. Especially when your credit card and phone are always together.

Some VPNs accept lightning. Use those. Same for esims.

Precisely.

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I do not seek to be anonymous. I just want my name and my software to be separate entities having separate lives. My dangerous self can keep up with shit, my software ideas… well they are on the edge sometimes.

worse. the powers that be can just make things up. if they want you, they'll get you.