You don’t need a month.
You don’t need to be a hacker.
You just need a weekend and the will to disappear.
Most people bleed data every second and call it convenience.
Location history. App logins. Old accounts. Browser profiles.
It adds up. And it sticks.
Google knows where you sleep.
Meta knows who you talk to.
Your phone knows what you whispered last night.
But you can claw it back.
This isn’t about going dark forever. It’s about not leaving your front door wide open.
Let’s burn the trail.
Friday Night: Account Hunting and Data Deletion
Start with the accounts you forgot.
That abandoned Tumblr. The forum login from 2011. The Gmail you used in college.
Step 1: Run Your Name Through These
Step 2: Go Through Your Emails
- Dive into that spam folder and unsubscribe to everything
- Do a search for “Confirm” or “Verify you email”, and “Welcome to”
Create a running list from step 1 and 2. Go nuclear.
Erase yourself from Data Brokers as well
Step 3: Delete or Obfuscate
- Delete what you can
- Rename what you can’t
- Strip bio info. Change profile pictures.
- Mangle old usernames. Burn the breadcrumbs.
Don’t deactivate. Delete.
If you haven’t already, go ahead and delete facebook with this guide
Step 4: Kill the Google Core
- Sign in to your Google account
- Go to My Activity and Location History
- Wipe everything. Turn off what’s left.
- Revoke third party app access
- Delete unused Google services like YouTube, Docs, and Gmail aliases
When Google forgets, it’s never perfect. But it’s better than feeding it.
Saturday: Devices, Browsers, and Mobile Footprints
Your phone is a snitch.
Your browser is an informant.
Fix both.
Step 5: Reset Your Phone or Harden It
- iPhone: Disable iCloud. Strip Siri, tracking, app permissions
- Android: Switch apps to open source alternatives. Consider switching to GrapheneOS
- Delete any unused apps. If they have an account delete those too.
Use offline maps. Local music. Think 2004, but encrypted.
While you are at it go ahead and make your android invisible.
Step 6: Burn Your Browser
- Ditch Chrome. Use Firefox with CanvasBlocker, uBlock Origin, ClearURLs, Cookie AutoDelete
- Go with Fennec or Firefox Focus on mobile
- Separate profiles for different tasks. Never cross streams
- Or use Tor Browser for serious browsing
Disable auto-fill, history, telemetry.
Your browser shouldn’t remember anything.
Step 7: Remove Metadata from Files
Before uploading or sending files, scrub them. Every JPG, DOCX, or PDF carries hidden trails.
Use:
- MAT2 (Linux)
- ExifTool (cross-platform)
- Or export as plaintext, print to PDF, or copy/paste into clean files
Always assume metadata is blood spatter.
Sunday: Communication and Storage
Now kill the last leak: how you talk, share, and store.
Step 8: Switch Communication Channels
- Replace Gmail with Tuta, Mailfence, or ProtonMail
- Use SimpleX, Session, Briar, or Signal for messages
- Send out a blast to friends and family that you will no longer be responding to SMS or iMessages
- Set your clients up right. No more sending PDFs over Gmail.
Stop logging your conversations on corporate servers.
Step 9: Encrypt Your Storage
- Use Cryptomator for drag-and-drop encrypted folders
- Or VeraCrypt for vault-level control
- Sync via rclone or Syncthing, not Dropbox or Google Drive
If someone grabs your laptop, they shouldn’t get your mind with it.
Full Guide to Encryption if you need help
Step 10: Clean Up Your Operating System
- Nuke unneeded apps
- Turn off telemetry and diagnostics
- Delete logs and caches
- Set up a new user account with minimal privileges
- Back up encrypted, then delete and reformat old drives if you want to go hard
- Windows has become full on surveillance tech. Make the leap to linux already.
This Isn’t Paranoia. It’s Hygiene.
They’ll call you extreme for doing this.
But ask them how many trackers are in their inbox.
How many cookies track their location.
How many data brokers have their phone number.
You’re not overreacting.
You’re just opting out.
You won’t get it perfect. That’s fine.
You’ll still use some tools, still leave traces.
But this weekend changes your default exposure level from wide open to tight as hell.
Final Push
You were never supposed to have control.
Every click, swipe, and post was meant to build a dossier.
They didn’t think you’d fight back.
Now they know.
Erase the trail.
Start with one weekend.
Then stay quiet.
-GHOST
Written by GHOST, creator of the Untraceable Digital Dissident project.
This is part of the Untraceable Digital Dissident series — tactical privacy for creators and rebels.
Explore more privacy tactics at untraceabledigitaldissident.com.
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