Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
I don&#x27;t limit my digital footprint in what I say on the internet — for proof see some of my hyperbolic posts on HN, ;-) — because I reckon what I say is pretty harmless, albeit opinionated.  Similarly, I&#x27;ve no hidden thoughts to harm people.<p>That said, I consider it a different matter when it comes to the Googles and Facebooks of this world pinching my data without paying for it, it&#x27;s why I rile against invasive technologies such as JavaScript which provides the power to these large multinational megaliths (and many others) to do so.  (Privacy is a war that end-users are losing and have effectively lost as they&#x27;ve essentially no tools or other recourse to fight back).<p>I also self-censor when it comes to searches or when following links from innocuous sites that may eventually lead, chain-like through others, to ones that may be deemed  undesirable. For an inquisitive  techie like me this is a damn pain.<p>As I see it, in the current political climate, it&#x27;d be stupid to do otherwise.  My you, 20 years ago nothing would have been further from my mind (or I&#x27;d imagine on the minds of most other internet users for that matter).<p>Unfortunately, both corporate and state surveillance is fact of life and a sign of the times and we just have to get used to it.  If that limits the full extent of access and the liberties that the internet actually provides one then so be it. Sadly, we&#x27;ve little other choice.