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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity

Welcome to the home of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity.

This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing introduction to various online tracking techniques, online id verification techniques and guidance to creating and maintaining anonymous online identities including social media accounts safely and legally. It is written with hope for activists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, whistle-blowers, and good people being oppressed/censored anywhere! No prerequisites besides basic knowledge of English and technology and some common acronyms regarding technology.

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.

The latest version is 0.9.9h, See the changelog.

This project is also supporting the Tor Project by currently running two Tor Exit nodes to help others. See the nodes here: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:970814F267BF3DE9DFF2A0F8D4019F80C68AEE26

If you'd like to make a donation to help this project, you can do so from here. All the donations will be strictly used within the context of this project. All donations are logged on the donations page (inbound and outbound).

Current donation goals:

• Extend time for:
  • Tor-Exit-01 node hosting (current expiration date is September 30, 2021). About 60$-54€/year needed total for this.
  • Tor-Exit-02 node hosting (current expiration date is December 31, 2021). About 60$-54€/year needed total for this.
• Move VPS for the Tor .onion hosting (current expiration date is April 1st, 2022) to a cheaper hosting provider and extend for 2 more years. About 60$-54€/year needed total for this.

Latest Online HTML versions at:

• Main: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html ^{[Archive.org] [Archive.today]}
• Mirror: https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org/guide.html ^{[Archive.org] [Archive.today]}
• Tor Mirror: http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide.html

Latests PDF versions at:

• Light Theme: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.pdf ^{[Mirror] [Archive.org]}
• Light Theme over Tor: http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide.pdf
• Dark Theme: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide-dark.pdf ^{[Mirror] [Archive.org]}
• Dark Theme over Tor: http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/guide-dark.pdf
• All latest PDFs are also available on CryptPad.fr at https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/Ughm9CjQJCwB8BIppdtvj5zy4PyE-8Gxn11x9zaqJLI/

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

• Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/https://anonymousplanet.org/
• Archive.today: https://archive.fo/anonymousplanet.org/
• Archive.today over Tor: http://archivecaslytosk.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.

Follow or contact me on:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnonyPla
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@anonypla
• Element/Matrix.org: @anonypla:tchncs.de (@anonypla:matrix.org and @anonypla:envs.net are currently out of order)
• Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=AnonyPla
• E-Mail: [e-mail]

Discussion Channels:

• Matrix: #online-anonymity:matrix.org https://matrix.to/#/#online-anonymity:matrix.org
• Github Discussions: https://github.com/AnonymousPlanet/thgtoa/discussions

Criticism, opinions, ideas are welcome! The ultimate intent is to not have any inaccuracies in the guide.

Have a good read and feel free to share/recommend it!