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Blizzard , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...
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Send a GDPR demand to delete your data.

Templa , in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
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I've had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated

Ilandar , in Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?

Just be aware that everyone has a different idea of how much privacy they need and who/what from. Whilst it is absolutely true that there are more private custom ROMs available, that does not necessarily mean that /e/ is universally "bad for privacy". Depending on the extent to which you are attempting to deGoogle your life, it may be good enough.

idefix , in Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?

I'd like to use a custom ROM on my S21FE, but options are very limited unfortunately.

umbrella , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...
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tell me more about how you use aliases.

you just using a new one for every service?

lazynooblet ,
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Back when I used self hosted mail, I wrote an extension that requested a new alias based on the domain of the website.

Like [email protected]

If the site got compromised I would update the random characters.

I still have 800+ aliases left over from this. But after moving to hosted mail I never updated the extension.

9point6 , (edited )

Surprisingly little known fact, email addresses actually have the concept of aliases built in (and it's relatively well supported despite being a bit niche):

[email protected]

Will end up in the inbox of

[email protected]

But will retain the alias in the To field

The downside is that if a sender is particularly shitty it could detect this and remove the alias again.

gratux ,
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Note: not every provider supports this.

Also, gmail addresses ignore periods. [email protected] and [email protected] will end up in the same inbox

Sunny OP ,
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Yes indeed, password managers have the option to do this, at least Protonpass and Bitwarden. While Bitwarden you need to connect a third party email service. But it's relatively easy, especially with Protonpass as it will automatically suggest to do this when you create an account somewhere.

Scolding0513 , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...

this is the company that Skiff sold out to. sad.

NeroC_Bass , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...

I got an email from century link yesterday asking how my service was, when I had it disconnected 8 years ago, and I got one from apple today about my account, when I deleted it 10 years ago.
They don't care.

Scolding0513 ,

yep, they couldnt give two shits, and all the lawsuits in the world are too weak to do anything meaningful.

Always protect yourself first and foremost, never trust anyone unless you have to!

czardestructo , in Best front and rear view dashcam without built-in WiFi?
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Blackvue cameras have WiFi but its always off by default. You have to manually toggle it with a button and if nothing connects it turns back off.

Antitoxic9087 , (edited ) in addressing misconceptions about the recent TunnelVision vulnerability

Since android are not subject to the risk, I wonder what happens if one connects the computer with hot spot from android.

Edited: just found out in the original report hot spot was also mentioned as a mitigation technique.

ArcaneSlime , in Free Software Webmail Systems (fsf recommended email providers)

I wish I could find one that is just a little less ideological. Not that I have a problem with ideologies, but I have trust issues, and I've seen some people justify some shit in the name of their ideologies, and as such I don't fully trust someone with a policy like:

To be hosted on our servers you have to share our principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, and anti-militarism. Your projects must as well be based on the same non-commercial nature which keep our project alive, and on the desire to share and experience relationships and struggles, with all the patience it requires.

for instance not to monitor my email to ensure I adhere even when they pinky swear they don't. Again, not that any of that would apply to me nor that they do spy but just the thought that they may us enough. Before someone says some smartass shit, I'd say the same for the opposite but idk many nazi mail providers.

I guess I'll have to pay, idk, maybe forward email. I'd pay proton if they'd just let me use imap/pop3 without some stupid "bridge."

possiblylinux127 OP ,
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Totally agree, however your options are limited.

ArcaneSlime ,

Yes, "and this is one of the limitations," is what I mean. This isn't just that one with the pretentious "AI" name, it's also riseup, disroot, etc.

warmaster , in GrapheneOS latest release includes a preliminary defense to prevent app-based VPN implementations from leaking DNS requests on Android when the VPN is down/connecting

These guys are killing it.

solrize , in Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary

How about stopping link hover from showing its own nonsense in the status line, Mozilla. The status line should always show the real link destination.

something_random_tho ,

It could only know that by navigating to the link in the background. That would have side effects, like them being able to track you even when you don't click on links.

solrize ,

If the link is to a redirector then that's what should show in the status line.

UnfortunateShort , in Best front and rear view dashcam without built-in WiFi?

Viofo A119 is great, but front view only. Could just get two of them tho...

BruceLee , in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
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I don't give my picture to social media but in a way the fact that you have to take pictures directly from your app is the proper way to digitalised identifing someone. Back to the time where people phisically register, people will showed up to prove which face they have an match it with an non reproductible identity card. But, now I could easily inpersonnate 5 or 10 of my relative and love-ones from the picture I have from them and image of their id-card or another official document they have give me access to, or they have access from my computer once.

Sam_Bass , in Thoughts on Google turning every device into a scanner for Find My Device?

Pray tell whatre you gonna find your device with if you only have one device?

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