
Fantastic article! I've been encouraging people to live on the internet like it's 1998 again - no personal info, no names, no real life pictures. Assume everyone has the potential to be a doxxer/stalker
Online handles were so much cooler than knowing people's real names anyway
Speaking as someone with an infosec background: this is excellent advice. Change to a privacy-preserving browser like Firefox - you won't lose anything. Start using a VPN. Keep your identities compartmentalised (Firefox actually has a nice feature for this). Sign up for LastPass, use a Diceware password with 6+ words, and start using passwords with 50+ characters on all your sites. Switch on two-factor authentication everywhere you can.
Security is a state of mind. It does not take a lot. I practice this stuff in my daily life and I'll never know the number of attacks it's saved me from. I even do it here -- in fact, especially here. For example, my username here is a randomly-generated 8-character easy-to-say word. You'll never know who I am on another site, and that's just the way I like it. The only ones here who have a link to another one of my identities are the admins who gave me the my invite code — and I agonized for a couple of days before I committed to revealing that much.
One day, I'll probably get doxxed or otherwise messed-up on the internet, and they'll find me, and they'll try to screw with my real-world life. I'm as prepared as I can be for that, I believe. But I'll be damned if I'm going to make it easy for them.