How to DISAPPEAR from the internet: Nine-step guide

The Daily Mail ^ | 3-7-14 | Victoria Woollaston

[afraidfortherepublic]

Could you give up the internet for Lent - or even for good?

Following various reports about companies stealing information and complaints about oversharing on social media, a web hosting firm has created a nine-step guide on how to disappear from the web completely.

It includes deactivating accounts, removing links from search results and how to remove yourself from various lists - and for people who'd rather just stay hidden than disappear, the guide also gives tips on how to use the internet anonymously.

'Social media has made everyone’s life an open book - one that’s open a bit too far in some cases.

‘For [people] concerned about their personal information potentially costing them jobs and relationships, the decision to ‘pull the plug’ is an increasingly attractive one,' said London-based WhoIsHostingThis (WIHT).

‘While it might seem impossible to keep your private life private, the truth is you can disappear online with a little effort and dedication.'

[jocon307]

There doesn’t seem to be a good plural for that word, really. I thought I knew one so I googled, this is from wiktionary:

The most common plural of opus in English is opuses. Some people use the Latin plural, opera. Opi is fairly common in the field of classical music, though mostly in informal contexts. The use of any of these three pluralizations may result in the speaker being corrected, though opi above all should be avoided in formal contexts. Outside of music, the word opus sees particularly frequent use in the expression magnum opus.

[McGruff]

I’ve added this thing called Ghostery to my browser because all these websites seem to know my Facebook info.

Ghostery is a cost-free privacy browser extension for Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome owned by the advertising and privacy technology company Evidon. It enables its users to easily detect and control web bugs which are objects embedded in a web page, invisible to the user, that allow the collection of data on the user’s browsing habits. Ghostery also has a privacy team that creates profiles of page elements and companies for educational purposes.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery

[familyop]

"Wow! You just described my life in Idaho!!...the living as a semi-hermit paragraph."

Thanks. It was easy to do from pretty much the same perspective (middle of nowhere). ;-)

[Sirius Lee]

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[Chickensoup]

Whenever you buy property or do anything that is a matter of public record, that information ends up on the internet. I was contacted a couple of years ago by someone who had never met me, but who knew my name and used it to find my mailing address by a Google search. Fortunately, this was a person I wanted to get to know as soon as I learned about her.

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I work with bad guys. My tax info, and my location is disappeared from the net. Most wealthy people too. I call every place that it is and they remove it into the physical search file. Wealthy communities in our area, have nothing online. Protects the citizens.

[exDemMom]

Let's see... Sirens, traffic noise, neighbors yelling, dogs barking, sounds of televisions, radios, low flying aircraft, frequent knocks at the door, more visitors, more telephone calls, folks with nothing better to do than cruising and ogling the residents of the typical metropolitan human Zoo,...

Do you live in the middle of the city? My neighborhood is nothing like that.