youmaynotknow

As long as you keep to FOSS apps that you KNOW are private (you can tell which ones call home), you should be OK. For example, Lemmy with a throwaway email address, Simplex for communications, Mull with a shitload of blocks, Orbot with RethinkDNS, and so on, you’re golden. Buy your phone in a different country, on Ebay with a throwaway account and a prepaid credit card.

There’s a lot you can do to remain truly anonymous.

Now, my threat model does not require me to go to those extents, but you get the point.

Agreed, but it is working, you don’t HAVE to pay, and I can remain anonymous.

That’s good enough for me.

I am getting the same crap from the Republicans. Don’t get me wrong, I could care less regardless of party, but it’s ridiculous.

In my case, since I moved to a VOIP service for voice and text, I just keep adding these to the blacklist, and don’t hear from any of them again, but they do keep coming from other numbers.

You are a superhero, one of the likes we rarely see.

God bless you, your work has returned some hope on humanity for many of us.

That’s fucking hilarious and awesome. 🤣🤣

Use LibreWold and/or Mullvad. Done.

I use the whole 365 suite, including cloud pc, provided by my work, on Fedora. I block a whole lot of stuff, and everything works, minus the annoying ads and pushy up sales.

YMMV, but I strongly suggest you start blocking crap at the hosts level, if something breaks, start unblocking.

A VPN has it’s advantages, mostly to avoid your ISP snooping on you (while having to trust another party not to snoop) and giving you access to stuff in the internet that may be geoblocked.

A solid DNS provider with Doh or DOT will encrypt your browsing, so I also believe it’s better than a VPN, but I use both.

It’s a matter of not overdoing it. Do it one step at a time. I feel you on the ADHD, I am also diagnosed, and now I inly check Lemmy and Mastodon every now and then. My mental health has improved dramatically since I dropped all the mainstream social networks.

Fuck the fox.

You need to take all your passwords out of LastPass and move to anything else. Bitwarden, ProtonPass, KeyPass, even Nextcloud, but run away from LastPass as soon as humanly possible. That shit and screaming your credentials at the top of your lungs while someone records it is the same crap.

Why would anyone mention anyone was emailing them? I’m talking about just doing the same without any type of other info.

I’m pretty sure nobody here knows who you are. Say the name, and some of us will just make this company’s life a living he’ll by spamming them to give us the source. Win - win (except for that POS company)and you remain anonymous. What are they going to do, sue your Lemmy handle?