Ask HN: If you lived in China, how would you go around surveillance?

I'd leave.

VPN and TLS ought to be sufficient. Sunglasses maybe?

Basically pretend to be a mindless cooperative citizen and say nothing in public and only be the true self in front of family and friends in private.

Wouldn't bother me. Privacy should be reserved to your home.

I would blend in with the crowd while doing my best to make enough money to escape. There's no point taking any risks in a jurisdiction that doesn't even understand basic human rights, and you ain't fixing that either, at least not from the inside.

The authors of #1 see the solution as "obfuscation". I think they're on to something important, especially when the entity seeking the information isn't just a business wanting to grab what they can get away with, but rather a repressive state who will punish resistance.

So I guess I would put it this way: Seek to reduce the signal to noise in the information gathered about you.

#1 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out...