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[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (22 children)

Woke up 🥱 Back to the tech bullshit.

spoilerI’ve already switched to Duck Duck Go on my phone which is a bit hard to get used to. Oh well. Gotta do it on the computer now.

I’m making non-Gmail versions of my emails and replacing them on the appropriate platforms to ensure I retain access to those connected services if I lose access to the gmail (even if it’s only to have the option to overwrite or delete them).

Reddit is demanding government id now so I’m wondering whether I should use that addon to mass redact my posts and then delete my account.

It breaks my heart to do it. It’s a lot of history with some fantastic people, so many posts with Melbcat including adopting her, and it all probably documents stuff I might want to refer to. And it’s the last nail in the coffin of me potentially returning there. </3

At the same time I don’t trust Spez with his intent to emulate Musk and the way he handled changes to the site, am annoyed I didn’t do it before ai scraped my content, and it’s possibly better not to leave so much personal info sitting on there. I wonder if there’s a way to download it for myself and then wipe it off Reddit.

I don’t know. I’ll have to see how long I have to decide. Probably not long :(

Next on the agenda is getting my photos and files back off the cloud. Need to see how long I have to do that.

The privacy and physical media buffs were so right. I didn’t have the time or savvy to be preventative but I can try my best now.

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    VPN would get me banned or shadowbanned from socmed but I want to look into VPN for general use anyway.

    The free ones have a reputation for being dodgy so I’m wondering about the free one included with the Opera browser?

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    @bacon @StudChud be careful with Proton. I've now seen several accounts of people having issues with Proton VPN then getting their entire Proton suite locked and no recourse: as bad as Google. Also they have autopayment without notification which some people will definitely take issue with.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Yeah I am only using it free for when I access 18+ things. Not gonna let them keep any data.

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    We all know bacon enjoys lingering shots of rotating rotisserie chickens

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