HACKER Q&A
📣 satellite2

How could I buy physical goods anonymously online?


On Amazon or such, nothing particularly special or dangerous or even expensive, even not stuff that would be particularly shameful, but stuff that I would prefer not ending up for sale at every data brokers in the world 15min after the checkout.

Obviously, I'll create a temporary email, use a virgin IP and cookies container, but I need to provide my name and address for the shipping.

I was considering obfuscating my name or my address slightly, such that the post can still find me but that exact string match would fail such that data brokers could not match this account with me.

Otherwise there is the PO box system but it's relatively expensive and complicated, enough at least that for the rare time I would need it, it would not be worth it.

How good do you think would be the obfuscation system, would it really resist the data brokers algorithms? Is there something else I could do?


  👤 jqpabc123 Accepted Answer ✓
How good do you think would be the obfuscation system

Worthless. They can and will easily match you to your purchase based on address and payment details.

Here is what would suggest.

- Use an Amazon gift card purchased with cash

- Have your purchase shipped to an Amazon dropbox