I don’t know who this man is, but I don’t think I need his help dating…

It’s because you skipped the transition process.

The free to free pipeline is real.

Never had a problem on Lemmy or Mastodon with a VPN. If you create a Reddit account through a VPN, though, you will get shadowbanned. I made my Lemmy and Mastodon accounts with a VPN and had zero issues.

Glad to see so many against, horrible to see that many for, let’s not let this get passed.

Ever since switching I’ve needed to hold myself back from mentioning it in every conversation. I thought it was a meme, but it’s real!

https://vid.freedif.org/c/honestguide/videos

About Prague

The wording is very vague, not saying exactly how, but with how everything globally is going, I doubt just typing an age is what they mean.

Or not just coding into it already verified so you DON’T have to do all these invasive things like ID scans?

Oh no? I’m sure some people won’t code workarounds…!

Literally how can they enforce this on Linux? It’s open-source, people just won’t choose those versions or edit that out of the code.

This is a wonderful video.

No, I would never trust them. General rule of thumb: don’t trust Youtube advertisements. They seem very sketchy to me. Why would these companies and data brokers willingly delete your data by just asking? Not to mention that it would instantly resurface in a million other areas. The best thing to do is to instead not give out that information in general, or not make it obvious who you are.

No, no, but try to recognise and change some of your writing habits.

The article barely mentions this, and I haven’t seen comments here mentioning it, but a huge factor in determining identities is one’s writing style. In fact, analyzing the way people speak and write is its own science (linguistic forensics) and is also used by law enforcement (though can realistically be done by anyone with OSINT and basic understanding of individual linguistic patterns.) Dead giveaways are especially if you consistently misspell a certain word or use a certain emoticon or uncommon phrase or word, it’s like a linguistic footprint. If Andy123 on Reddit and XxwhateverxX both spell appearance as appearence and both say booyah and both spell :) as (:, then it is much easier to tell that they may be the same person. This is something that you must be aware of, as well as giving out personal information like country of origin, amount of pets, place of work, etc.

Agreed! I also use the “if I recognise the brand, it is suspicious”. I try to avoid larger brands when I can, because that means that most definitely they are bad, like Nestle and all the many brands Nestle owns.

My general philosophy is that if I see it advertised, be very skeptical. That’s why I will never trust any vpn sponsorships, or deletme or incogni or anything, because they’ve been advertised a lot. Gotta be suspicious of everything.

I can relate. I’ve been on a privacy journey for months now, and I am constantly amazed at the quality of FREE and open source alternatives (many of them often come from Europe, so before I focused on European tech, I was already using a lot). You can have a better time and also have significantly better privacy for free, which I think has wonderful, and has made me feel much better and made browsing the internet a better experience.

No more privacy! Everyone knows everything about everyone everywhere! Woooo!

Who could have seen that coming?