I use a custom domain with a personal email address that I only use for communicating with actual human beings. e.g. myname@example.com Then I have a generic email address that I use with a + for different services e.g. email+hfu2sb5d@example.com or email+ebay@example.com I use Bitwarden as my password manager and that can automatically generate a + email using random characters but I sometimes use the latter + form if I want a human readable email. This way I can see exactly what website/service has been breeched/sold my data if I get spam emails.

Cries in kiwi due to decades of successive useless governments and entrenched car culture

I subbed to this community but the barrage of political posts makes me want to unsub. I came here for amusingly infuriating posts not a constant reminder of how fucked up politics are (I’m not even in the US)

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2025/11/11/flock-camera-locations-map-eugene-springfield/87202411007/

You’re very naive if you think only propaganda is controlled solely by right wingers lol

This is one of the things I don’t get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is ‘digital’ it doesn’t deserve the same protections as before?!

Unless you’re using GrapheneOS and then the answer is “Mostly but it depends”.

Ah, the privacy invasion is indeed the devil. I wish more folks cottoned on to Jitsi.

A Brave New World describes pretty well the self imposed glass prison the human race will end up with if the general apathy so pervasive now continues. Panem et circenses

Unfortunately you likely still have a shadow account :(

It’s not science that’s destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.

It’s the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.

HOW is that comfortable?!

Tell me you don’t understand GrapheneOS without telling me you don’t understand GrapheneOS.

This typed from a GrapheneOS phone that works just great, including the UI (breath of fresh simple air, no clutter, no crap, no AI).

And I’m happily using my phone knowing that not a single thing is spying on me or data mining and everything on my phone is there by my choice. And even happier that there’s not a damn thing Google can do about it.

Yes, you are wrong.

I recently switched from Enpass to Bitwarden and as a result decided that, while I was at it, I would delete accounts I don’t use anymore. Oh boy, some were incredibly difficult to delete. Some would only anonymise data and remove login access. And one outright refused to delete my account. Unfortunately New Zealand privacy law only covers accessing and changing personal information so I’m shit out of luck with threatening anything legal to force that company to remove my account. One company (Klarna) has taken months to respond and since stopped replying to my request to delete and I haven’t been able to find a way to escalate my request :/

Likely from now on I will check account deletion policies before making an account and it will be a hard pass if they don’t allow account deletion.

OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.

If you’re in the northern hemisphere or equator 😉 I can tell you there is nothing but cold and rain where I am in the Antipodes.

So sweet! Please tighten that collar though! Needs to be snug enough that you can fit 2 fingers underneath it.

That’s some Quality vampire scrunge

The problem is its closed source and often difficult for the average user to tell what is going out. All you can do is Do Not Trust.

Boop