All of us have made privacy mistakes at some point in our privacy journeys. In an effort to help those earlier on in that journey, please share some of the mistakes you’ve made, and how you could have prevented it.
Not me, but my mother sent her dna to 23andMe. I was not happy to hear that.
If you decide to use Google Messages on an Android custom OS, set up Contacts Scopes (if you can) or else it it will have access to all of them around the time you first open the app.
Recently I got conned into giving a couple websites my email address for an alleged discount thinking, well I’m going to give it to them with the purchase anyway. Only for them to then request my phone number.
Couple lost sales for them.
I’m gonna cut this short and say all of them… 😂 its a marathon not a sprint.
Being born
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.
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.
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.
After getting those nastygrams myself then having to troubleshoot some other issues, I’ve ended up using solely a private tracker (iptorrents because I couldn’t get an invite elsewhere) for torrents which I only use for manual search in radar/sonarr to minimize seeding space. Automatic downloads go through Usenet if I add something to my watchlist. I did have torrenting bound to PIA as a VPN in the past, but with Usenet and a private tracker I never felt the need to renew it.
I taped my latest DMCA letter to the wall to remind myself of this. I also wrote a small script to kill torrent processes and eventually break the software adapter if needed if certain gateways are reachable.
stood in my balcony with my pp out and someone saw me
Well depending how old you where that’s fine or creepy
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.
Same, I can recommend vesktop to at least have a dedicated window for it, + some customization. I used discord-sandboxed before, but that stopped working.
I changed the user-agent of my browser to “Error: No browser installed”. Can’t be more unique than that, I guess. That was 30 years ago, though, I don’t think it will hurt me today 😆
Just make it your username
😅
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.
Wouldnt you like to know
Using the same username ober multiple platforms
I forgot to tap the “location” button on my phone to set it to “off” for about ten years.
