{"id":62751,"date":"2018-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2018\/02\/16\/irl-on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-doggo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T00:00:00","slug":"irl-on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-doggo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/irl-on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-doggo\/","title":{"rendered":"On the internet, no one knows you\u2019re doggo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the internet has come with its own cloak of invisibility. To quote <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> famous cartoon<\/a>, and one of the longest running jokes online: \u201cOn the Internet, no one knows that you\u2019re a dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder='0' height='200px' scrolling='no' seamless src='https:\/\/embed.simplecast.com\/036ebe44?color=f5f5f5' width='100%'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every day, in small and sometimes extraordinary ways, we benefit from the ability to choose our identities online; to share and explore things we might not be able to share and explore in public.  But increasingly, our online and offline lives are intertwined. We leave traces of our real selves across every app we sign in to. We use <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/2985\/instagram-handles-have-replaced-phone-numbers?zd=2&#038;zi=nwka2rvb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">our Instagram handles as our phone numbers<\/a>. We reveal ourselves out here. But it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4673602\/terms-service-privacy-security\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not always by choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2018\/02\/60ddd956280dcca0108ce4b48bd42abe-600x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-715\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>By permission of the artist. Originally published in The New Yorker July 5th, 1993.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2018\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-706\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>By permission of the artist. Originally published in The New Yorker February 23rd, 2015.<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<p>On this week&#8217;s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/irlpodcast.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">IRL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaamranhafeez?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hafeez<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plsteiner.com\/blog\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Steiner<\/a> discuss the evolution of dog memes and digital privacy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sosadtoday?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">SoSadToday<\/a> talks about the value of anonymity for women online. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3049569\/has-this-man-unlocked-the-secret-to-internet-anonymity\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Hirshon<\/a> shares his personal battle to keep his face off Facebook. And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flexlibris\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Macrina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.deepwebacademy.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Taylor<\/a> reveal what&#8217;s underneath the surface of the deep web. <a href=\"https:\/\/irlpodcast.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Listen up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/condenaststore.com\/featured\/two-dogs-speak-as-their-owner-uses-the-computer-kaamran-hafeez.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRemember, when, on the Internet, nobody knew who you were?\u201d <\/a> <em>New Yorker<\/em> cartoonist Kaamran Hafeez&#8217;s work has been tracking our shifting, and sometimes strange, relationship with online anonymity since 2015. Below, we asked him to illustrate his take on the subject in 2018.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-7.41.42-AM-600x657.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"657\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-710\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-7.41.58-AM-600x513.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-711\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-575\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2017\/10\/focus-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Get Firefox Focus, the privacy browser<\/h2>\n<p>Browse like no one\u2019s watching. Firefox Focus automatically blocks a wide range of online trackers \u2014 from the moment you launch it to the second you leave it. Easily erase your history, passwords and cookies, so you won\u2019t get followed by things like unwanted ads.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/focus\/\">Try it.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Original cartoons courtesy of Peter Steiner and Kaamran Hafeez. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the internet has come with its own cloak of invisibility. To quote The New Yorker\u2019s famous cartoon, and one of the longest running jokes online: \u201cOn the Internet, no one knows that you\u2019re a dog.\u201d Every day, in small and sometimes extraordinary ways, we benefit from the ability to choose our identities online; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":20712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On the internet, no one knows you\u2019re doggo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cRemember, when, on the Internet, nobody knew who you were?\u201d On this week\u2019s episode of IRL, we explore the state of privacy online. 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