Before really learning about the implications, I had used the same alias on dozens of sites. I had hoped for serendipitous interactions.
Its taken forever to track down and clean up all of those old accounts.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
24 points (96.2% liked)
Privacy
32740 readers
3030 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
stood in my balcony with my pp out and someone saw me
Using a VPN for torrents and forgetting to set it up to kill the network connection when VPN is lost. Got a couple "love letters" from my ISP that way.
Used Facebook for years.
I knew Instagram was privacy invasive long before I ever started using it. Still decided to use it for some reason. Anyways, glad to have my dopamine receptors back.
Advice my parents to use outlook. They were using an ISP email service which we had to get rid of. I wasn't sure if tutanota was ready for them yet and they already were a bit familiar with outlook. It was a bit of a trade off back then.
I use Discord, though only in a web browser and only for semi-public chats. I might be using Discord less if I had gotten some friend groups onto something like Matrix.
True story:
When I was a kid I wrote a review for Dexter's Laboratory on the internet. I wrote "I think the show fuckin sucks!". I don't know why. Again, I was like 10. AOL ratted me out to my parents somehow and I got banned from the dial-up for a week.
99’s kid detected.
I still have digiaids from Limewire back in the day. I also regularly type "magic" between a certain you and a tube and I have no idea who operates that site.