5 ways to commit Internet suicide
There was a time when people would look for themselves on the Internet and then brag about how many hits they got. It was the early Internet Age equivalent of being included on a Who’s Who list. But a not-so-funny thing happened along this broadband path to unlimited exposure. Too much of a good thing turned out to be not such a good thing after all!
Now that it’s reached the point where almost anybody can find out almost anything they wanted to about almost anyone, many people are searching for an escape button. If personal information has been piling up about you online for the past five to 10 years, there is bound to be some stuff that you don’t want everyone to know. It could be basic information about where you live or what your telephone numbers are, or perhaps it’s photos or content that you don’t want a current or prospective employer to eyeball.
In the absence of an Internet Relocation Program, you will have to take matters into your own hands if you want to commit “Internet suicide” by eliminating as much information about yourself as possible. Check out this article, How to Commit Internet Suicide and Disappear from the Web Forever. It gives plenty of detailed steps you can take to slide off the screens of those who want to search you out.
http://lifehacker.com/5958801/how-to-commit-internet-suicide-and-disappear-from-the-web-forever
Depending on how much information is readily available about you online, it might require some time to get everything deleted. But if your privacy is very important to you, it will be worth taking the following five steps:
- Delete your social network accounts. The most common ones are Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and Google+, but yours might also include Yelp, Amazon, Quora and others.
- Remove unwanted search results. These might include images, articles and employer websites. You may need to contact both the sources and the search engines directly. Burying what remains is an additional option.
- Get rid of background check, criminal and public record results. After finding out what information is out there about you, you’ll probably need to pay for a service such as DeleteMe to take care of this.
- Remove any usernames attached to an email address with your name. Here you’re going to want to try to unlink your primary email address from your username wherever possible.
- Stay off search engines without going offline by remaining anonymous. Keep your real name off social networks, make a yearly audit of background check websites, create a fake identity and keep your browsing anonymous.
Have you ever tried any of these methods to limit the amount of information that can be found about you online? How about any other strategies you’ve employed? What has worked and what hasn’t? Looking forward to hearing from you about this subject.
First I don’t do social media,not so much fear of being tracked as I refuse to let some ass clown get paid selling my information and not giving me a cut.
As far as everything else I use cash whenever possible,but have alerts set on my credit card and debit card where I get a text and email every time either is used.
Keep in mind you can protect such things on your end only! In other words if the bank or anywhere the card was used is hacked your information is out there and nothing you can do to prevent it.
As for e-mail and other assorted shit being tracked…..let them gather all they want and have fun sorting through it……LOL
Being a somewhat intelligent individual I know enough to not leave a trail if doing anything I want kept private. Other than that I and a large number of friends have a blast inserting “key words” in everyday email and text conversations.
If they decide to kick down my door they won’t find shit! Because I do nothing illegal. Could they frame me? Sure they can frame anybody and get away with it.
The big question is are you going to live in fear like they want or are you going to stand up and fight like a true American?
You can cower and hide in fear of big brother or you can stand up and fight! If you’re living in fear they already won. If you fight even minor little things like laughing at their attempts to control you by inserting “key words” in email or search Google for weird unusual things,nothing illegal, like strange fetishes or patriot and alt right & far left news sites. Click on as many as you can build a file that will confuse a human and likely fry software trying to understand it.
Can they investigate a million of us doing it? How about 10mil.?
Wise up people!
Stop living in fear and instead use their own tools to take them down! Be a true American and live life free from fear, fight and win against all enemies.
Lets make America great again and Americans someone respected world wide!
It’s we the people they need to fear and never forget that.
Excellent discussion topic.
My computer has all the signs of an imminent crash, so I will change the ISP, email services and other things with a new set up.
Beam over to the “How To Vanish” website and check out other suggestions about internet privacy and such.
“How To Vanish”:
http://www.howtovanish.com/
As author, Tom Clancy, pointed out in one of his books, the levels of government from the city to the white house and beyond, as well as corporate America use FEAR to control and manipulate the masses. This includes selling soap, to what to buy, eat, etc. and even how and what to vote for. We must be informed (know your enemy) about what affects our lives and then make your own independent decisions without being coerced from others who would take advantage of you.
Use https://duckduckgo.com/ for a search engine. They do not track you.
Remember to delete, or set your computer to automatically delete, the computer’s browser history, even after using ‘duckduckgo’. I was surprised to see all the topics and links listed there after a search session.
Frank when all hell breaks loose, Yes we are going to have a place to return to if it is still there? I think you know there is power in numbers! Communications
The only way you can truly commit Internet suicide as you label it is to completely go off the internet. Close out your internet service and that would include this site. Is that what you would recommend. Sounds kind of pointless for you to have a web site if that is what you are indicating. Besides they use your IPO website to track you don’t they so it doesn’t matter if you use a fictitious name unless you use Internet service elsewhere
And as you mentioned in this comment, deleting Frank’s site and all attached for us to get his emails and newsletters may be one of the best ones to cancel. As he is probably one of the HIGH hits or the government to look at just because of the PATRIOT in the name of things…as would all of his “followers”. Us. Just having contact with anyone the government may feel is threat to them makes anyone on their mailing list vulnerable also.
Because WE are PATRIOTS!
How about being more specific with your recommendations; they’ are too general in nature for us computer-illerate individuals. Need the names of specific sites, etc.
Thanks…
Frank, how do you create a new identity ? I have moved to Kenya. I had to keep an American bank account because of my Social Security Disability Direct Deposits. In the 2 months I have been in Kenya this bank has taken it as a green flag to nail me every time I turn around. Because they know I can’t just come down there and raise hell. But Social Security refuses to make a direct deposit to my Kenyan bank account. Would you have any suggestions ? And don’t say get someone on that end, I did, 2 infact, and they don’t do squat. I can’t even get the money I should have from them selling the personal property I left for them to sale. I wanted to add too, in July I got hacked (by leaving my Bluetooth on) & they not only got into my Laptop but my phone also due to them being synced. We ( me, Sprint & Microsoft) did a Hard Clean & wiped everything off both. Even tough we backed up first I couldn’t restore squat, that is when I found out you can no longer delete your Primary email address ( gmail) you can however have a dozen alias email addresses, but everyone of them are linked to your primary email account. Through the hacking I found out Google wrote and sells software programs to teach how to and assist in Hacking into other peoples computers, that is the reason I wanted to end all associations with Google (gmail). Just thought I’d share this info.
You forgot to take the illegal Kenyan in the whitehouse with you. Come back and get him please
I followed advice and erased the cookies in my computer and when I tried to get into my email, google would not let me in so I had to go back and put the cookies back. It is harder to hide that I was told.
Hello There Frank…..Thank You so much for giving us all good information to help ourselves and loved ones. I always look forward to hearing from you. Also I wanted to share something that I have only recently learned of My Mom works as a pca for elderly citizens recently a law was signed in by Mr. Obama that requires pca’s and all other helpers for the senior and disabled Americans when any funds such as medicare or Medicaid that come from the federal government are used to pay for in home services these workers are to look around for evidence of firearms and document their presence and location. Hope someone finds this of good use.
I do not know about this information and had never heard before but let me tell you the medical profession makes me wonder My husband has been ill to different degrees for 18years. I have taken care of him through it all and now that things are getting much worse, every time we have gone to a doctor/ER/hospital in he last 2 years (at least) they push me to get the social services involved. Even though I tell them I don’t want to and why (past bad experiences of loved ones) they make a person feel like you don’t have an option. Well, they need them to come into your home to analyze it to be sure it is safe for the patient, as well as for the caregiver. I believe after they get in they start building a case for the patient (and one said maybe we should BOTH go into assisted living) to not be able to stay at home. Soon after that and when they are put into a care facility; their health starts going down fasts Soon Hospice is called in and shortly there after…you have a funeral to go to. I may be excessive and crazy, but that is about what I was with my dad. I think the govt. is dictating through the insurance/medicare companies. They are not going to let persons that are useless go on very long. And I think Hospice is their tool. (I know, I sound like a lunatic)
By the way, we are only in our mid 60’s.
You do not seem like a lunatic. I believe everything you’re saying. You have to protect yourself just like you are.
For email encryption, chat and IM, http://www.Unseen.is is a company in Iceland or Sweden which respects privacy. Check them out, you can get their no-cost, adfree, malware free option of the super duper for $49 US.
I would like to know how I can get off of Facebook, as soon as possible…..
Me too Bill. I’ve tried several times with no luck by e-mailing facebook, negative results. If you find out please let me know
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
I appreciate your comments, Frank. Lately I am using Firefox as my browser and DuckDuckGo as my search engine. When I found out that Google and Microsoft dumped all of their subscribers info, I was LIVID. I cancelled my Smart Phone and went to a prepaid basic, no frills phone.I just hope others follow suit and don’t allow this out of control “government” to take over.
I was also lucky enough to come across a company from Switzerland that will provide you with a highly encrypted VPN, a Swiss email account and a Digital Safe to allow your banking, etc. to be done without your computer being traced as well as zero advertisements, hackers, malware, etc. in your email and cookies. As a matter of fact, when you pay for these services, and you do a google search, google thinks you are overseas. Very cool and I am proud to be a part of it since last week. totalprivacy.privacyabroad.com – check it out – there is A LOT to read and learn. When I found out that all of these wonderful services on the internet are reporting our information to PRISM voluntarily (supposedly), I was enraged. Skype, Google, AOL, Facebook, Twitter (just to name a few). I still have to figure out out to erase myself from all of the social networking – it will be arduous task to say the least.
I just got this Frank. You are coming in as SPAM on some subjects and I have found several others as I have searched into what most of these I have been getting are and most are from you and it makes me unhappy to not get your emails. Would it help if I sent as attachment how it appears?
Let me know, please. I count on what you have to say.
Sincerely,
DiAnn White
try adding [email protected] to your contacts list…sometimes that helps. Some email systems will learn if you move a few emails to the “not spam” pile.
If are not doing what is suggested in this article, you are leaving yourself wide open to being hacked, identity thief, and your location being announce for those who may want to harm you and your property in many different ways!
I have to figure out who I want to have my email address and notify them that I am going to change my email address.Google is the worst provider to use because so many networks are monitering it.I REALLY do not like all the unsolicited emails from scam artists and internet marketers everyday. More and more it is becoming a big waste of my time and I want to free up more of my time to enjoy life.I made the mistake of putting my phone number on some form that I can’t even remember now and I get all kinds of long distance calls that I don’t want but still have to waste time going through.Phone providers want to charge me for answering these calls unless I take out a more expensive plan.Everybody is after your money 24/7.Most times when I do answer a long distance call it is some foreign accent I don’t understand so it is an aggravation that I don’t need.Is there a way to attach a note to your email address to tell would be responders and internet merketers that your email is out of service ???? Most places you deal with online require a certain amount of personal information to make sure they can verify that it is indeed you they are dealing with so makeing up fake information might be the only way to throw off the hackers unless they are good enough to access your computers IP address that your service provider has your personal information on file for.THE only real solution is to quit using online social media.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
Good stuff, it’s a shame we’ve gone to sleep & let our gov’t take control of our daily lives like we have. I miss my privacy!!!!!!!!!! I feel sorry for my kids & grand children, they don’t know what real freedom is. Most of them are really in the dark about what goes on in our country politically, they’re not going to be able to fight for themselves when it comes time, they don’t know how. I think we’re heading for a total country disaster myself, starting with the gun control & health control going on right now. I hope the future generations realize freedom is more important than material things,ie, cars, boats, jewlry, fancy clothes & many other luxuries our country has given them. I’ll shut up now!
Billy R. Nicks – No, DON’T shut up now! Never, never, never shut up. That’s exactly what they want you to do. You are absolutely right in your thinking, and your kids and grandkids need to read what you have to say. Now I’LL shut up! AJ
I thank you for this. So much is going on and i have been asleep far too long! I began with facebook, and now im going to get rid of alot of the others. im becoming a firm believer that some things MUST remain old fashion. only the people that i have concern for on a regular basis should be able to contact me. right now that person simply should be my wife.
thank for the info i at least got off facebook
How in the world did you get off facebook ??
I’ve e-mailed facebook a couple of times to get off and they say “Welcome Back”
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
I noticed many things that people got in trouble typing on facebook so I never signed up and I am sure twitter is the same. If they want to contact me call me. I won’t even text.
Thanks for the info. Now I know I live in a glass gold fish bowl. Too bad we don’t know as much about our counterfiet president.
Just found a new search engine that doesn’t track you like Google or others. It’s startpage.com. Worth looking into.
Hi Frank,
I read through the material you sent, and question the wisdom of running away, instead of fixing what is broke. I could care less about which political party is in control, both are filled with the left over lawyers that could not make a decent living on their own so they become our political leaders, in turn they appoint many even greater failures to do the work for them. All this has led us to a poor functioning system. I feel the true Patriots that would like to help fix our country are buried under tons of useless regulations and procedures no one can do anything to help us. I feel we need to talk all over the world, express our fears and needs and just maybe someday someone will bring a idea out of what we should do to correct this entire mess, and the people will follow. I try to keep my personal information quiet such as not banking on the web but even I use a credit card when needed, I hope someday that don’t bite me. Someday if enough information is exchanged this country will find new leaders who are true Patriots and want to change the ways our country is being ran people will recover our country back from a corrupt political system that is not working by corrupt greed and design. Old Hugh
Frank, allow me not to recommend 2 books. “Patriots” and “One Second After”.
Most people who read “Patriots” start to majically develop a strange mentality. “One second after”, well it will make you paranoid. I don’t know why people bother with this unless dibble. There are so many other things and problems to worry about other than this useless liberal democratic bs. Let’s always be scared. Let’s go run and hide. To put it mildly, let’s forget about everyone else and worry about ourselves. Every day I find something about how we shoul;d be scared and to go run and hide. We are given multiple examples of problems but no way are we given solutions to these so-called problems. All we are given is run and hide. Boy, the liberal democrats must love this. Let’s create so many problems that we will never solve any of those problems. With all the real problems in the world why are we focusing on these stupid ones. Take for instance the high energy costs. THere must be a way to produce energy from solar or wind power. But what are we doing instead? We are worrying about the goverment protecting our e-mail privacy. Take it from me, anything that the goverment has a hand , there are bound to be alot of problems. Look at energy prices, social security, welfare, the roads, school shootings, crime, transportation, inspection of food or water, nuclear energy, medicare, medicaid, national health care, do I really need to go on from this list? Or should I spend the next ten hours or so going over the other problems. I remember buy a system that was suppose to explain about solar and wind generated energy, and this is what I got. LET’S ALL BE SCARED.
Like the Rethugnicans who are always telling us we are being attacked? So all the freedoms they are stealing are, “for your own good.”
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy. It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
Hermann Goering Hitler’s Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg trials after WW II
All of the progress in civil rights, human decency, and maturity have been instigated by “liberals” The Founding Fathers were regarded as liberals in their day. But facts don’t bother you do they?
Tank you, James. Finally a voice of reason.
“Government isn’t the solution; government is the problem.” Reagan
Take for instance the high energy costs. OK.
Consider: As the amount of money grows, the price of oil rises. In fact, almost 87% of the move in the price of oil can be explained by the increase in money supply. America’s war against Iraq had its roots in many improving impulses. According to John McCain and Alan Greenspan, however, the taproot sank into Iraq’s oil fields; America wanted to secure its access to cheap oil, they say. Unfortunately, this program – like all government meddling – backfired.
The price of oil was only $25 a barrel when the war began in September of 2003. Yesterday, it hit $130 a barrel. And the war itself is expected to cost the nation $1 trillion or more. For all its efforts, the United States secured
the most expensive energy in world history. (And then pushed food prices
up to their highest levels in modern times too).
Yet people don’t realize the “FED” (Federal Reserve Monopoly) is at the core of most of our country’s ailments.
What has happened to the value of our money over the last century? It
takes $2,310.26 today to equal the purchasing power of $100 in 1910.
Looking at it another way, $100 in 2010 only had the same purchasing power that $4.54 did in 1910.
IT’S WAY PAST TIME TO “END THE FED” AND RETURN TO “HONEST MONEY”!
Not every person who had read Patriots has gone haywire. My whole family has read the book and found it to be informative yet just what it is, a fictional novel. I don’t want to be scared or live in fear. I want to be informed and be prepared.
Thank you, Allen….just because you read something to stay informed, doesn’t mean you need to Fear everything….Being prepared is an essential thing that we all should welcome instead of being in panic mode when a crisis hits suddenly and catches us totally Unprepared!!! You are so Correct!!
Glad they are catching you two scammers Allen aenk and Carrie aenk with the scammer horse and dog rescue springdale wa. You 2 have ripped off so many people and starve animals at your phony rescue ..hope they get your license 501 revoked and hope you both never get another animal dogs or horses and we will not only shut you down but you will move out of state ..hahahaha ..Google shepherds way horse rescue springdale wa
This man is the perfect example of what we are talking about. It was proven that Robert Christerson is a troll that works for the feds to help in smear campaigns against Patriots. Beware folks! We are one of this man’s many recipients.
Oh how funny you all think that this is actually Allen talking haha nice try Carrie. It sure is funny how you always act the victim when in fact it is you victimizing everyone else!
I have an interesting problem regarding internet identity. Several years ago, a person tried to steal my identity and ran up a number of bills in my name before skipping town. Now when I search Google for my name, this woman often comes up as either related to me or as living at my address. I have no idea who she is, and certainly do not want to be associated with her in any way. Is there some way I can fix this?
Good read Frank!! Thank you
Frank, allow me to recommend 2 very important books. “Patriots” and “One Second After”.
Most people who read “Patriots” start to majically develop a prepper mentality. “One second after”, well it could make you paranoid, but it’s better to “wake up and smell the coffee” than to
live in a simi conscience state of mind, I am habitually in a “Yellow /Orange” mode and my situational awareness is tuned up pretty good. OK, I am a Viet Nam Veteran of 2 tours and
after 9/11, I did get reconstituted at Blackwater and spent time hunting and fishing in the Middle
East and Somalia. Anyway, thanks for all the good stuff. 1/12/13
It’s quite easy to use a trash email address. Many are free (gmail, for instance). You just have to be careful to not link your real name with your fake one. Most people don’t know this – but you can still place orders online without using your real name. The robots that read credit card data cannot read text. All they look at is the card number, exp date, security code and the street number and zip code of your billing address. Your name could be Bob Jones – but you can use Poopface Bubblegut if you want to – the merchant processor will never know the difference. If your street address is really 1234 Main Street in zip 85301; you could use ‘1234 Fart Trail, zip 85301’ in it’s place and the processor would never know the difference. Of course, your shipping address is another matter – but if you are using an alias, who’s to know? Or con a friend into letting you get things shipped to their house. (Just make sure to tell them to accept deliveries for Pooface Bubblegut!)
The U S Postal Service now has a FREE service for box holders since 2012. [ I have had P.O.Box address for over 20 years because of my profession; not local deliveary to my home addresses ]. The USP service allows you to use the Post Office address where your box is for all delivary’s [ Including UPS, etc., ] and you pick up your shipments at the Post Office.
Most shippers that use UPS and/or FedEx do not know understand or like being told that both freight companies deliver to post offices daily. Some post offices are the same and do not know about the info you provided and will accept your shipment a
only with a steep additional charge.
Poopface bubblegut. I love it. Man that made my day. I appreciate people with a sense of humor
When we got the extra 4 numbers behind the zip code, we were told by the 9 number zip code a letter or package could be delivered to the correct address.
Well this is not so, I inquired at our post office last fall about that an was told they would not be able to do that from our post office. I believe a bad address, even with the correct zip code, would be a “return to sender” from a small community post office for sure.
Frank: I have a Arrest record that was cleared of all charges. Yet the arrest is still on the County Web Sight. It’s been 9yr’s from the arrest. I get questioned all the time about this and I explain to them of the situation (But I get the old saying. Every body says I’m not Guilty & Every body is good till they go bad) How do I remove this from the County Web Sight? Note it’s been (9 years and I don’t have the Court Papers any more. It Wouldn’t make any difference though cause it’s a record of Arrest an cause not the final result of the Court. Like being Guilty till Proven Innocent.
A little research says that the exact paperwork and procedure for getting arrest records set aside and sealed varies by state, but it usually just takes filing the right papers and paying a fee. I would check with your local district attorney.
Hi Frank thanks for the tip my ex husband is very violent and so is his family I need to stay underground I need them not to ever find me I appreciate anything I appreciate anything you can do to keep me safe thanks again take care
Your friend thank you so much for letting me know about this is very necessary in my life I need to stay underground I need to stay away f I need to stay underground I need to stay away from them send note thank you for helping me and making me feel much safer Cynthia