My question is: how to be 100% anonymous for any website? I know that if you route the traffic trought Tor, change the fingerprint as much as possible, and use a mac addres anonymizer, you get certain level of anonymization, but, is there something else? I heard about sites using vulnerabilities to de-anonymize you. And of course I’m talking abt surface web sites, nothing abt deep web or that stuff. Also I know that if you download certain files they can contain malware to also de-anonymize you, for that reason the solution would be any linux distro.
For surface sites, tor and mac anonymiser should be enough. You can go with virtualised OS. Or use in memory OS all the time - that way you’ll get new IP and OS signature every time.
I’ve heard that govt agencies themselves own servers in tor network to reconcile and identify the requester but I think that’s for dark web.
And don’t use social media known for data collection. Trust me, you are not missing out anything.
You wanna be anonymous on a website? Don’t visit it!
For all websites, turn off cookies, javascript, ads, all permissions in your browsers like sensors, location, mic, webcam, any many others that are listed under the permission page in settings. Use strict firewall rules, vpn, a live os for ephemeral sessions that are too running on hardened and secure machines.
In all seriousness, 100% anonymity is not possible, though you can get close.
I can tell you, but it isn’t the answer you want. Is it possible? Yes. Is it convenient? No.
Buy a bunch of cheap laptops with cash. Load either TAILS or Whonix onto all of them. If you want to visit Website A, then drive to a place with public WiFi, access Website A, then throw away the laptop afterward and never bring the laptops near your home.
For Website B, then use another laptop and a new access point (WiFi).
Pay in cash or crypto. Cover the webcam on the laptops. Do not use public WiFi if you’re on camera or CCTV. Never reuse the same laptop and never connect to the same access point. Use an antenna to connect from far away (if necessary).
100% ? No, its not possible. Consider this, when you send out traffic to the 'Net the responses have to get back to you. Even using all the tricks of the trade from Tor to proxy servers the return traffic needs to know how to get back to you.
That being said you can make it hard to find your origin point. How far you go to cover your tracks depends on what you are doing online.
if you route the traffic trought Tor, change the fingerprint as much as possible
That’s not exactly it, TOR Browser gives you as much as possible the same fingerprint as all other users.
and use a mac addres anonymizer
That only makes it hard for your Internet local network (the router/firewall) to remember you, it doesn’t do anything to websites.
I know that if you download certain files they can contain malware to also de-anonymize you, for that reason the solution would be any linux distro
If you download a malware and open it, being on Linux doesn’t help. Same thing with running random terminal commands.
Linux desktops are like MacOS: they have less marketshare, so people who make malware don’t have much incentive to write malware for them. It doesn’t mean there are no malwares, just less.
It all depends on whether you blindly trust random guides on the Internet that ask you to download files, scripts, or run a random program and blindly agree to everything. Linux won’t stop you doing that, neither will Windows or MacOS.
If you do the things you and others suggest in this post you would have to be extremely high on their wanted list to be in any danger like a terrorist. If the 5I’s top agencies really want you they can get you.
Why do you need to be 100% anonymous? Is there someone actively hunting you? If yes: good luck. You’ll also have to consider things like the time of day you visit as website, as it can be used quite well to narrow down a geographic region. If no: why bother?
There is no such thing as 100% anonymous. If you go online you are never completely anonymous. Sorry. If you want to be 100% anonymous stop using the internet or any technology for that matter. Go back to pen and paper and never go outside because satellites are watching us 24/7. There’s many things you can do to adjust settings of your online accounts and your browser settings. As far as the perception of 100% anonymity is something accept is not possible. If you’re a very experienced cybersecurity professional you can achieve a good degree of anonimity but even then malicious security hackers have been tracked down even in Tor and other ways to anonimise. I don’t believe online is anonimisable.
Perhaps a paid Monero VPS with encryption for all data and RAM, where a VPN is installed, and you connect to the server exclusively through Tor or i2p, which carries the VPN traffic, would be suitable.Strict separation of the two “personalities”, completely separate accounts, logins, passwords and everything under a virtualization. Never log into normie accounts from this system. I’m not sure, as I’m not particularly knowledgeable about this.
fyi web sites cant see your mac address only things directly connected to your device can see it is other end of a ethernet cable or the wifi access point (other wireless devices nearby can see it too)
