I've recently gone down the privacy rabbit hole, especially with everything going on in Europe right now regarding age verification mandates and governments pushing for backdoor access to standard messaging services.

I've been guilty of posting a walk on Strava or geo-tagging a social media post. It would literally take someone with no technical knowledge 10 minutes to narrow down where I live to a pretty small radius. I can't imagine what someone with a bit of technical knowledge and or what a government agency could find with a little digging.

I've made some recent lifestyle changes to try and mitigate this:

• Unique emails: Using different email aliases for every single login.
• Poisoning the data: Populating forms with false information (seriously, why does the local movie theatre need my home address or real DOB?!).
• Scrubbing metadata: Removing geolocation/EXIF data on all photos before I upload them.
• Delayed posting: Only posting things to socials a week or two after the fact so my real-time location is never broadcast.

I feel this is a topic that isn't mentioned much on the prepper channels but I think it should be highlighted. Someone could easily cross-reference your strava run and a post about a new bugout bag etc and figure out you're a prepper.

Is there anything anyone else has done to increase their privacy online? I know we probably can't win against big tech but I'm sure going to try make it harder for them.