Protecting yourself online as a Sex Worker
Delete all your old abandoned profiles with this website. You don’t want a Myspace account from middle school coming back to haunt you
Delete all your old email addresses, especially if you have used them connected to old accounts, mailing lists, or public records
Op Out of all the major people-search engines. You can use this article for help on how to do some of them. White Pages, True People Search, Spokeo, Instant Checkmate
Go through the privacy settings of all your social media. Don’t have your full name in the general description info that everyone can see. Make sure all your accounts are set to private. If you can, don’t have a clear photo of yourself as the public photo. For example, my facebook is a picture of me looking at a piece of art and you can’t see my face. There are tons of classy ways to do so it doesn’t look unnatural. My Instagram photo is just a photo of my bitmoji.
Remove the EXIF data (Exchangeable Image File Format) from every photo on your sugar profiles and any future photos that you send him. This is important because he can easily find out exactly where a photo was taken.
Google, Yahoo, and Bing yourself from the incognito version of your browser so you can see what everyone else does. You might have forgotten your old Pinterest or youtube channel from five years ago.
(Bonus) Set up some fake info for your Sugar Daddy to find. I have a fake Facebook with a name that’s super close to my fake sugar name and some photos of me that I don’t have posted anywhere else. I also have a fake Instagram. Last, I have a fake LinkedIn that I log into when I’m screening a POT. If you find him, he’ll see your fake profile visited him and think that he’s got your name now.