If you live in the UK or Australia, you’re watching the internet go through a slow, bureaucratic lockdown. Age verification for websites like Wikipedia. Music and map apps demanding ID. Search enginges facing content controls. VPNs being eyed for regulation.

You probably already know the basics of digital privacy: use a password manager, enable 2FA, don’t click weird links. It’s good advice for the average person. But what if you’re not average?

There are countries where currency is a tool, and there are countries where currency is a trap. Lucía lives in one of the latter. A student in Buenos Aires, Lucía used to think she was just anxious. That her obsession with inflation rates and central bank policy was a niche academic kink. But when her rent doubled in six months and her bank limited how much USD she could withdraw, she realized something. This wasn’t anxiety. It was foresight.

Arman is a 21-year-old engineering student in Tehran. He’s quiet, curious, and tired of pretending not to see what’s happening around him. He’s not looking to start a revolution, but he wants to know the truth, and right now truth is filtered, flagged, and firewalled.

This guide is written for people who don’t have a strong technical background, and may live in places where the internet is more locked down than a vault. Carefully following these instructions should have even the least technical people up and running with anonymous access to the open internet with the most convenience possible.