Trilight Zone

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For people with only a casual interest in Internet privacy, it is not necessary to achieve total anonymity. Regular Internet users with an eye to privacy may be able to achieve a desirable level of privacy through careful disclosure of personal information and by avoiding spyware. IP addresses, non-personally-identifiable profiling, and so on would be acceptable trade-offs for the convenience that would otherwise be lost working around them.

On the other hand, some people desire much stronger privacy. In that case, they may use Internet anonymity to ensure privacy—use of the Internet without third parties being able to link the Internet activities to personally-identifiable information of the Internet user.