The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

Welcome.

This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities. It is written with hope for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed, censored, harassed anywhere!

This guide is an open-source non-profit initiative, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (cc-by-nc-4.0 ^{[Archive.org]}) and is not sponsored/endorsed by any commercial/governmental entity. This means that you are free to use my guide for pretty much any purpose excluding commercially as long as you do attribute it.

If you’d like to make a donation to help this project, you can do so from here where you’ll also find the project goals. All the donations will be strictly used within the context of this project. All donations and spendings are logged on the donations page.

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Mirrors:

• Main: https://anonymousplanet-ng.org

Direct downloads:

• CryptPad.fr (outdated) at: https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/Ughm9CjQJCwB8BIppdtvj5zy4PyE-8Gxn11x9zaqJLI/

If you want to see the changes between your PDF and the latest PDF, you could use one of these tools (I do not endorse those):

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• https://products.aspose.app/pdf/comparison
• https://draftable.com/compare

If you want to compare an older ODT file with a newer one, use the LibreWriter compare features as explained here: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/shared/guide/redlining_doccompare.html

The guide and all the files are also readily available on Archive.org and Archive.today:

• Archive.org (outdated): https://web.archive.org/web/https://anonymousplanet.org/
• Archive.today (outdated): https://archive.fo/anonymousplanet.org/
• Archive.today over Tor (outdated): http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/anonymousplanet.org/

If you want to check the files for integrity, safety, authenticity, please refer to this “How To”.

Feel free to submit issues using Github Issues with the repository link above. Criticism, opinions, and ideas are welcome!

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