TOR refers to 'The Onion Router', which is basically a proxy system that runs through a bunch of layers to ensure anonymity. From what I've heard from people who have tried it, it leads to very slow browsing speeds.

It can also provide access to the 'Dark Web' which I am led to believe is 90% paedophilia.

Personally I just do what you do kymbos; adblock and ghostery. I also have a very light social-media presence. for general users that should be enough.

I farted with TOR just to see what it would do-made my browser drag some, ran in the background, etc.
When I was sock-puppeting here i used a number of proxy servers, all crappy and unreliable. I'm more concerned about the NSA recording every keystroke than having my identity stolen. They can have my identity, I ain't usin' it...

I'm on Chrome. Using Adblock, Ghostery and DNT+.
I also have access to the ipredator proxy service which I invoke when torrenting, though I suppose I could just use it all the time.

Also don't post of bunch of crap on Facebook

Just enter your social security and credit card numbers below and I'll get you started.

Another tip: pause your google web history.
Go to https://history.google.com/history/, pause it, and delete all.

A site dedicated to an analysis of various 'terms of service' agreements.

Very interesting.

http://tos-dr.info/

Oh, that's the other thing - my smartphone just offered an upgrade to Google Maps, on the condition I allow it to monitor my fucking calls or something. The list of things I had to agree to was incredible. Are we just selling our lives through apps?

I really have no idea if this works, but my basic scheme over the last 10 years or so is to maintain multiple online personalities. All personal bill paying, banking, etc. is done through one online persona. All other activity is done through others, like this one. I'm jonny, but I'm not jonny when it really matters. On the other hand, when it really matters, I really am jonny.

Interesting fact. If you browse to videosift via ipredator you get the lovely Rick Astley!

I use hosts, block send referers (some web sites don't work without them!) in my primary web browser (Mozilla's SeaMonkey), etc.

What about our privacy on VS? What is Dag and Lucky760 doing with our data?