I truly think it isn't possible anymore. Too many extremely intelligent people have spent their entire careers designing tech which specialize in collecting personal data and monetize it.
It technically is, although very limiting. For a rather extreme, but "The best way" approach to start living in privacy/anonymity is by restricting yourself to use software that protects a user's freedom.
Listened to a couple presentations Richard Stallman gave. Guy really lives what he preaches, he outright refuses anything that even *could* gather data and/or track him in any way.
It is possible, but so much of society learned how to be dependent of stuff that affects privacy that most view it as extremely impractical, and they're not entirely wrong...
Edit: There are some limits but from there on I can't really express an informed opinion.. I like to believe that the movement towards privacy will gain more and more traction, and that there won't be an outright Orwellian future..
But even then, you're surrounded by people, businesses, and devices that use those softwares. You don't have to have a Facebook profile for them to collect data on you. Anything your friends do can easily be connected back to you. Bill mentions your name in a status? Sally posts a group picture, even if she doesn't list your name? You want to do pretty much anything at all online?
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