How to completely erase your 99.8% digital footprint from the Internet? This is a minimalist practical guide, take 10 minutes to follow and eliminate the vast majority of privacy risks. Strongly recommend bookmarking first one ️⃣ Retrieve privacy from data traffickers Many websites are quietly crawling and selling your personal information. Apply for deletion on these three websites: Spokeo: Search for yourself → Exit → Submit Whitepages: Find information → Apply for deletion BeenVerified: Go to the exit page → Submit After completing this step, 90% of strangers can find your information. two ️⃣ Let Google search 'forget' you Directly search for 'Google removal request' on Google. Submit a form requesting the removal of pages containing your phone number, email, or home address. Few people know about this move, but Google has a legal obligation to review it. It usually gets approved within a few days and is extremely effective. three ️⃣ Identify your forgotten 'zombie account' ‍♂️ Open your Gmail and search for the keyword 'Verify your email' directly. Almost all the platforms found are ones you have registered for but have long forgotten about. Take some time to log in one by one, find the settings, and decisively log out/delete accounts. Reduce the attack surface. four ️⃣ Check if you are already running naked Visit the website haveibeenpwned. com and enter your preferred email address. It will list in which data breach incidents your information has been exposed. You may be surprised to find up to a dozen unknown leaks. Response plan: Immediately change the passwords involved. If you get used to a set of passwords that go around the world, replace them all. five ️⃣ Turn off Google's' God's Perspective ' Go to your Google account settings to regain control: Search for 'My Activity' ->delete all ->all times ->all products. Go to "Activity Controls" → Pause: Network and app activity, location tracking, YouTube history. six ️⃣ Destroy old social traces Previous speeches may become hidden dangers, and regular cleaning is a good habit: X: Use TweetDelete to automatically clear old tweets from 30 days ago. Reddit: Use Redact to overwrite and delete your comments (to prevent them from being retrieved by data recovery methods). Facebook: Filter by year in activity logs and delete in batches. seven ️⃣ Building the Future Privacy Firewall ️ After cleaning up the past, we also need to take preventive measures: Register a new website and use SimpleLogin to generate a one-time email alias. If the website leaks data, simply delete the alias, and the real email will still be secure. Replace the browser with Brave or Firefox, as they default to blocking various trackers (Chrome does not). The Internet has not really forgotten, but we can try to reduce the exposure. If you find this tutorial useful, feel free to retweet/like and share it with more people