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Leaked Documents Show TikTok Tried to Suppress ‘Ugly’ Users https://gizmodo.com/leaked-docum…
- Gardener3
.If you want to ameliorate your "footprint" at least somewhat, here are some reasonably simple things you can do (a lot of them are obvious):
- Delete (or at least stop using) all social media accounts. They've already got everything they need to build a profile on you, but quitting now will at least make it harder for that to continue. Unless you're a very active user, you'd be surprised how quickly you lose the "need" for them once they're gone. If you have to use social media for work, create separate profiles just for that and only use them when absolutely necessary. If you can dedicate a machine/network just for that, even better.
- Stop using as many Google products and services as possible, including Gmail. This is probably one of the harder ones, but it's worth doing whatever you can (i.e. using DuckDuckGo as a search engine, never using Google Chrome as a browser, not using stock Android on your phone, not using Gmail for important/personal emails). ProtonMail is a great alternative for e-mail, and Firefox/Brave/DuckDuckGo are all good browser alternatives. If you must use Google accounts, tweak the privacy settings as much as you can to opt out of "personalization".
- Use a VPN and browser extensions. Firefox is probably the best browser for selection of privacy-enhancing extensions, and comes with a lot of good options within the browser itself. Depending on how stringent you want to be, some of them can make your internet activity a bit more fiddly (certain pages breaking, constantly having to re-enter logins or verifying accounts etc.) but I'd say uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and Google/Facebook "container" extensions are essential for preventing these companies from tracking your activity across the web. VPNs don't offer as much protection as some people assume, but every hurdle helps, and it's worth paying a little for a good one.
- Keep phone apps (and usage) to a minimum. Depending on how careful you are with your settings, a lot of apps will subtly run in the background, gather location data or even access your microphone. Delete any apps that you don't use often, you can always re-download them if needed. It's a good idea to limit your phone to essentials anyway, for more than just privacy reasons (I also keep my phone on grayscale most of the time, which makes it less appealing to idly fiddle with). There's no popular smartphone that's particularly privacy friendly out-of-the-box, but iPhone/iOS is probably the lesser of all evils (unless you're tech-savvy enough to install an open source OS like Graphene on an Android phone).
- Try to only use privacy-respecting messaging apps. Signal is probably the best option, but Telegram will do as it's more widely-used. This one can be hard because you're sort of limited to what everyone else is already using (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger etc.), but try to use those ones as little as possible. Apparently iMessage isn't a bad option if you're on iPhone with other iPhone users, but since it's not open source it's hard to be sure.
- Don't use your real name or other identifying details anywhere online unless absolutely necessary. A lot of the things you sign up for don't actually need to know your real name and birthday in order to work, so don't give it to them. And keep separate email addresses for different purposes (i.e. one for personal, one for work, a few for various different sign-ups etc.) This helps "diversify" your internet profile. It extends to in-person "sign-ups" as well (shops, restaurants etc.) If they don't "need" your phone number or home/e-mail address, don't give it to them.
Those are a few things which seem the most important for reducing your digital footprint. I'm not especially tech-savvy myself, so I'm sure many of you will have other/better suggestions, or will be able to explain why some of mine are bollocks. I've also found https://www.privacytools.io/ to have good information and resources if you're interested.
- grafician0
Facebook blocked all q anon accounts from their networks.
But my thoughts and prayers are with the people at Twitter that are basically fighting a war now to moderate the network after that idiot is tweeting non stop...
- please do some screenshot of an article, or tweet, we need an other post about this lolsted
- utopian0
- Facebook, Twiiter, Amazon, Parlor, Apple, etc...created this monster. Now they want to be be responsible media companies. Fuck them all!utopian
- They don't care. It all boils down to money. The Steam forums are some of the worst pits of pure cuntery yet Valve do nothing...face_melter
- ...because if they went in heavy and started removing these cunts they would lose a shitload of cash. All they do is piecemeal moderation to keep the static lowface_melter
- #metoo movement and BLM movements would not have happened without ithotroddy
- Krassy0
Girls post video on social media of themselves killing 15-year-old in Walmart
- that's horrifying.utopian
- horribledbloc
- awfulKrassy
- This is directly related to our political and cultural climate.Hayoth
- The correct headline should substitute "social media" with "Facebook Live". Credit where it's due.monNom
- hayoth mr.superintelligence here again, like if not everything is related to cultural climate.. very smart this hayoth guy...buahhaha lol.neverscared
- Hayoth gazes lovingly at his signed photos of spastic trad blimp, Sargon. His eyes filling with tears as society falls to sock-wearing femboys.face_melter
- That escalated quickly.StoicLevels
- nb1
I am dying to know the name of Trump's social media platform.
Sadly, they'll probably use something boring like Freedom Net and not something cool like MAGAVERSE
- something-something...section_014
- twumpESKEMA
- wtf, that didn't post rightsection_014
- Trumperomahadesigns
- Trumpbookomahadesigns
- Trumpnetomahadesigns
- Trumpspaceomahadesigns
- Trumpsteromahadesigns
- Donaldspaceomahadesigns
- Social Trumpidiaoey_oey
- you guys made me look: http://grabembythe.c…renderedred
- Trumpet (obv)Gardener
- ^could be hahacassiellux
- quickly, register all those domains!grafician
- It will definitely have the name Trump in it somewhereBaskerviIle
- Trumpstagramnb
- TrumpCrookBH26
- Trump Facedbloc
- morbidly obese space.neverscared
- https://pbs.twimg.co…CyBrainX
- OrangeNetStoicLevels
- The Idiotverse™StoicLevels
- Tiny Handsoey_oey
- GrinderGuyFawkes
- grafician-1
INSTAGRAM IS ‘MOST INVASIVE APP’, NEW STUDY SHOWS
https://www.independent.co.uk/li…
"The study found that Instagram collects 79 per cent of its users’ personal data and shares it with third parties, including search history, location, contacts and financial info."
- Fuck You Zuck Again!utopian
- What financial info?omahadesigns
- can we turn that off?scarabin
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