--- title: Five Best Ideas: You're Less Anonymous Online Than You Think description: Why you're not as anonymous on the web as you think you are, the tiny robot revolution in eye surgery and more. canonical: https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-24T17:00:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:08.837Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Your Anonymous Browsing Isn't So Anonymous og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Your Anonymous Browsing Isn't So Anonymous twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You're Less Anonymous Online Than You Think by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 24, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 24, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Your anonymous browsing history isn’t actually that anonymous.**](http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/48/55C96/) By John Sullivan at the _Princeton School of Engineering_ **2\.** [**If Trump wants to put pressure on China, pulling out of TPP was the wrong move.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2017/01/23/trump-and-the-tpp-giving-away-something-for-nothing/) By Edward Alden at the _Council on Foreign Relations_ **3\.** [**Here’s how the tree outside your window saves you money.**](https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/new-study-urban-trees-save-energy) By Rachel Dovey in _NextCity_ **4\.** [**Something very bad is happening with drug-resistant tuberculosis.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/18/510435545/why-is-extensively-drug-resistant-tb-on-the-rise) By Jason Beaubien at _NPR_ **5\.** [**Tiny robots are fueling a revolution in eye surgery.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603289/the-tiny-robots-revolutionizing-eye-surgery/) By Simon Parkin in _MIT Technology Review_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/"},"headline":"You're Less Anonymous Online Than You Think","datePublished":"2017-01-24T17:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:08.837Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/","keywords":["Innovation","tuberculosis","tree","TPP"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4644955/anonymous-online-browser-history/","name":"You're Less Anonymous Online Than You Think"}}]}] ```