Privacy Checkup 2021 -

[DinahLiddell]

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[Bender]

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I wonder what this said before it was edited...

@Sammy fancy being cheeky and reverting the edit if it was funny?

 

[DinahLiddell]

Oh I was just wondering when my threads were started delete and sent over to reddit. I'm a lolcow but have definitely seen where I was wrong to do certain things out of anger and frustration.

 

[Sammy]

I wonder what this said before it was edited...

@Sammy fancy being cheeky and reverting the edit if it was funny?

What why me specifically?

 

[Blasterisk]

What why me specifically?

Bender is just picking on you 'cause you're cute. For a janny, Not like we care.

 

[Bender]

What why me specifically?

Your name was the first that popped into my head.

Probably because you're cute.

 

[Ahriman]

Do any of you fine gentlemen use private cloud storage? so far I am content with whatever storage my Yandex account offers (it's not even maxed out), but what is the general consensus about MEGA, pCloud, Dropbox, etc?

I imagine I'd be better off setting up my own NAS and prepping my very own "Cloud®" underneath the stairs in my own home, but I wanna hear what you guys think.

 

[Sammy]

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Eh, the message was a little power level-ish but nothing turbo funny gold people gots tah see, and the fact they had the sense to realize they were oversharing and remove it, in a thread about double-checking your privacy settings and not accidentally oversharing, like, I'm just leaving it.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Your Email
You should use a permanent email not tied to your real ID.

Only admins can view your email address. However, we have had a security breach in the past which leaked the email addresses of active users.

I am a single person with almost no resources, so it was always a matter of when, not if. For years before the hack, we've maintained a policy of keeping as little information as possible. This includes advocating the use of permanent alter-ego email addresses. When the hack happened, there was almost nothing identifying in it, as most people took their privacy seriously.

Alter-ego addresses are email addresses you do not use on sites tied to your real identity on. Remember, your email address can leak from hacks like the one we suffered. Websites keep track of what email addresses (and other associated data) have been compromised. I suggest subscribing to haveibeenpwned on every email you use.

They are not disposable / temporary email addresses. We do not allow those because they are used by spammers and abusive accounts suicide bombing the forum. Any legitimate users with a disposable email will eventually forget their password and be permanently locked out, so it's seriously against our interests to allow it.

A list of good email providers to build alter-egos with is available on this site:
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/

You can change your email address here, but you will be required to verify it before you can begin posting again.
https://kiwifarms.net/account/email

So as an aside, does anyone know why Cock.Li is suddenly forcing the braile font on everyone?

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

So as an aside, does anyone know why Cock.Li is suddenly forcing the braile font on everyone?

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Check the date.
I'm going to starting moving any account I plan to use more than once to other emails since I don't want to deal with whatever fuckery they'll think up next year.

 

[DopeSmurf]

Privacytools IO is pure garbage and obviously a protonmail advertorial site, null shilling it everywhere proves he is a fed. Here's a link to educate yourself with https://privacy-watchdog.io/privacytools-io-censors-true-information/

 

[Prinz von Preußen]

Do you reckon a an alias-forwarding service like https://simplelogin.io/ would be enough, or should every account get their own proper email address?

 

[ilux]

Saw a post or 2 about using a vpn+tor using both if your not a experienced user might be a bad idea https://support.torproject.org/faq/faq-5/

 

[Ben Garrison]

The real redpill is to use someone else's username so they take the blame

edit: DO NOT look up my username

I am the real Ben Garrison

I dont know if its been said, it probably has. but enable 2FA everywhere. and invest in a u2f device like like yubikey, get 3-4 and generate the same secret on all 4 use that to be the password of your keepass db (i use keepassxc) that way you dont know your password to the db, and you have 3-4 backups of the password to unlock it, which means you can have a 256 character password for your db file.