|Scenario Task Parent=Identity or Location
|Scenario Task Type=Profiling your identity and actions
|Scenario Task Description=There are multiple guides to help you stay anonymous when browsing the Internet. Anonymity is not [https://learn.equalit.ie/wiki/[What_is_Internet_surveillance%3F |inherent on the Internet]] and useful when you want to hide your destination address from the local Internet Service Provider or your identity from the visited website. It can also help protect your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_graph social graph]. If you need anonymity to send an email, please refer to the [[I want to send an anonymous email]] section. Herein the two most popular methods to achieve a degree of anonymity on the Internet:
*Anonymity networks - The [https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#whyweneedtor Tor Browser] hides your destination address and shields your identity from the visited website. It is completely open source and free with an active developer and volunteer community. Guides from the [https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/torbrowser/windows Security in-a-box] project for Windows users and from the [https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-tor-mac-os-x Surveillance Self Defense] guide for Mac users, as well as some [https://github.com/freedomofpress/encryption-works/blob/master/encryption_works.md#browsing-habits tips for using Tor]
*VPN - a Virtual Private Network allows you to connect to the Internet via an encrypted tunnel to the VPN provider. Your ISP can only see your connection to the VPN service, to the website you are visiting your origin appears as coming directly the VPN servers. The [https://black.riseup.net/ RiseUp VPN] service is a popular choice among activists and functions from all computers and Android smartphones. [https://www.surfeasy.com/ Surfeasy] is one of the many commercial VPN services offering free accounts as well.