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Julia Frater's avatar

I knew, but I didn’t know the extent of it. Might need to get my tech guru to help this older girl to get all this done!

So what do you use for mail? Proton?

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Jason Rowe's avatar

Yes I use Proton for email, storage, password manager and calendar

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Serial Misfit's avatar

Technology will make life easier, they said,

…and here I am yearning for the good old ”hard life” days,

when the only thing I had to worry about was my wallet.

Which I could only have lost in an actual physical fight, over my dead fucking body, and that was so good to know….(sigh)

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Sandra Blair's avatar

I have an account (can't remember which off the top of my head) that requires a second email account for verification. How do I get one that's not Gmail?

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Jason Rowe's avatar

Just to clarify what do you currently use?

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Sandra Blair's avatar

I'm currently on Chrome but want to move to Firefox

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Jason Rowe's avatar

Definitely do that or Brave is a great option as well. For email I recommend Protonmail.

Here are some more of my recommended platforms

https://drive.proton.me/urls/74WC92Y9F4#EveBCR4NYUsA

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Sandra Blair's avatar

Thanks so much!

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Jason Rowe's avatar

You’re welcome!!

also if you’re interested I just put together a free 5 Day email mini course, I think it would be perfect for you.

beyondthefirewall.kit.com/reset

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Noel Carlson's avatar

This is great info, thank you!

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Jason Rowe's avatar

You’re welcome!! I’d love if you share with your network!

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phil den's avatar

that was a usefull guide thanks.

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Valerie Parent's avatar

Thank you! It’s so helpful to have someone explain what’s going on behind the scenes.

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Blue-G's avatar

⁉️

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Erica Latker's avatar

Do VPNs help?

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Jason Rowe's avatar

They are useful but some of these are not effected by a vpn

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Mischa Altmann's avatar

FYI bad link just after "Interested in a secure password manager?"

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Jason Rowe's avatar

Weird it works when I click it.

https://go.getproton.me/SH1QM

Thanks for the heads up though

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Preston's avatar

Well damn I guess I am one of the first people to read this article. Once again, thank you for all of this information. While creepy (of course), what you shared here is vital information to helping ease one's personal footprint. As things become less safe online (as f they ever were haha), it is imperative that we continue to look after our own information and make sure it is not being used. This all seems daunting, like you said, but in the end will be worth it.

Thank you for the informative read!

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

"Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff.

All you need to know about data scraping.

Your data.

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Preston's avatar

I’ll give it a look. Appreciate it!

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Dodo B Bird's avatar

For my whole life I was offline outside gardener playing outside type until some hate crimes changed my life.

Now I'm a Luddite Online. I don't even understand half what you said.

I'd like maximum privacy but don't understand. Never yet had a computer or laptop or tablet yet.

Now on Substack and a pixels art site but I don't know what I'm doing.

But thanks for the advice.

Mr Dodo B Bird. American Dissident Artist.

Dodobbird.pixels.com (art site)

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Gmail?

Facebook?

Amazon?

You use them?

Dear me.

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Jason Rowe's avatar

I don’t but a lot of people do so this is obviously for them

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