How much of doxxing goes beyond simple search of related account names, and what someone can infer from your posts. I.e. what part of doxxing is more advanced or hidden, i.e. being able to see deleted posts, browser, machine id inferred from hardware components, and such?

Does anyone else can't help themselves but overwrite/delete posts a day or a couple after posting? Not that I got anything to hide, but I hate that someone can easily track who I am, what's going on in my life, an odd drunken post, identifiable information about person, business, work, education, whatever based on what I post.

Simple answer is of course just deleting everything after you've finished with your conversation on a given subreddit or a facebook thread. But what remains? When I googled doxxing-related info, people say use VPN, different browsers, and all sorts of things. Not that I want or need to stay hidden as such, but I want to leave a minimal digital fingerprint simply because if there was someone who wished me harm, they can't really find out who I am. I am not breaking any laws nor I got anything to hide for legal reasons. It's more about personal privacy.

Just from reading some posts on this sub I found out about Sherlock thing on github, and I will give it a try, I don't want to reboot to linux rn, just to see how much I can find from the information I left behind. But is there something more that potential malicious people can dig the data out of? Like deleted posts, browser info, your hardware fingerprint, whatever? How does that even happen, like I get how you can legally just google stuff and go through whatever is available freely, but how does more advanced doxxing work?

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