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Woke up 🥱 Back to the tech bullshit.
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I’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.
We use VPN
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?
I use Brave browser when also has a VPN option and lots of inbuilt "do not track" privacy settings. I've not used the VPN much but just adding it as an option for yiu
I’ll look into it, thanks