Anyone know how to avoid 'Avatar tracking' please?

[Mal54]

Anyone know how to avoid 'Avatar tracking' please?

[Freya Mokusei]

Depends what it is and how it's accomplished.

Generally no, systems that track avatars can't be reliably avoided in SL except by logging out. Second Life was never designed to encourage hiding.

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Mal,

As Freya says, there's no reliable way to avoid being tracked. There is, however, a reliable way to not care about it.

I do that by not caring about it. It might take some practice, but it can be done.

;-).

[Lindal Kidd]

Maddy's policy is one way, but there's another.  If you really don't want people to know you are online, then you will have to be someone else.  Go back through the signup process again and create another user account and avatar.  This is your alternate account, or "alt".  

Use your alt to log in when you don't want your friends to know that you're here.  NOTE:  Do NOT tell anyone about your alt.  Don't use that account to visit any of your regular places or contact any of your friends.  If you do, it won't be long before you'll have to create another alt, because people will know both your identities.

Now, if you mean that someone is able to know your location, as well as simply whether or not you are on line, it's another matter.  Most often, this is done by intelligent guesswork.  Your tracker knows your usual hangouts, and once he sees you're online, he teleports around to them and looks to see if you are there.  You can't do anything about this except to go places you don't usually go.  However, if you use a third party viewer and have RLV enabled, and have given control permissions to someone, they CAN track your location.  And do other things, like force teleport you.  To stop this, disable RLV in your Preferences, then re-log.