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Cycling usernames is one thing But remember to break your social graph on occasion with a new phone number and email address, and never sharing your number or

Cycling usernames is one thing But remember to break your social graph on occasion with a new phone number and email address, and never sharing your number or stored contacts with the social media network. not that hard just something to be conscious of.

ape4 6y ago
Don't use the Facebook app
pruski 6y ago
Storing contact list by any service should be illegal. You might try to not share your data, but if anyone has you on their contact list, it’s out of your hands
- vmception 6y ago
  Which is why you also dont tell the service your phone number or reuse an email address
  - pruski 6y ago
    New email per every service you want to use? It shouldn’t be this complicated
    - vmception 6y ago
      no. new email for the same service to make a new account, even after deleting your old account. a lot of people dont know how or why they get the same suggestions of people and dont want that.
    - reaperducer 6y ago
      Sign In With Apple does exactly this — generates a fake e-mail address for each account, so the data harvesters never get your real one.
  - laurent92 6y ago
    I wonder if Google has a backdoor API which lets group people by backup email. If one always creates an account with the previous email as a backup, the link is east to make. That would be especially useful for censorship services across competitors: Although Google Facebook and Twitter compete, sharing the flagged accounts would allow recognizing the same user coming back with a different email address.
    - vmception 6y ago
      who said anything about backup email but sure? probably if you just alternate between a backup email tied to an email you use everywhere
lmeyerov 6y ago
We help companies in areas like payments/account fraud where there are constant bots / rings / account takeover attacks, and this is both good advice... and _really_ hard. To cycle against entity resolution tools for a regular company, that'd mean things like full simultaneous reset of: * cookies * browser user agent * potentially sequence of sites/services you use * IP address/location * linked accounts * contact info Even one miss/overlap can void your efforts. The big sites have much more to work with than that, making it especially hard. Likewise, if a team takes a specific interest, there are even more correlations that can be done, e.g., behavioral analytics.
- vmception 6y ago
  Yes absolutely, fingerprinting an individual is easy and avoiding that as a user is hard. Social media sites (Facebook products) might drive ads based on fingerprinting but they aren't re-linking social graphs this way. Sticking with the reliability of shared phone numbers and emails (and people friending/inviting the same people and having the same name theyve seen before)

ape4 6y ago

Don't use the Facebook app

pruski 6y ago

Storing contact list by any service should be illegal. You might try to not share your data, but if anyone has you on their contact list, it’s out of your hands

vmception 6y ago
Which is why you also dont tell the service your phone number or reuse an email address
- pruski 6y ago
  New email per every service you want to use? It shouldn’t be this complicated
  - vmception 6y ago
    no. new email for the same service to make a new account, even after deleting your old account. a lot of people dont know how or why they get the same suggestions of people and dont want that.
  - reaperducer 6y ago
    Sign In With Apple does exactly this — generates a fake e-mail address for each account, so the data harvesters never get your real one.
- laurent92 6y ago
  I wonder if Google has a backdoor API which lets group people by backup email. If one always creates an account with the previous email as a backup, the link is east to make. That would be especially useful for censorship services across competitors: Although Google Facebook and Twitter compete, sharing the flagged accounts would allow recognizing the same user coming back with a different email address.
  - vmception 6y ago
    who said anything about backup email but sure? probably if you just alternate between a backup email tied to an email you use everywhere

lmeyerov 6y ago

We help companies in areas like payments/account fraud where there are constant bots / rings / account takeover attacks, and this is both good advice... and _really_ hard. To cycle against entity resolution tools for a regular company, that'd mean things like full simultaneous reset of: * cookies * browser user agent * potentially sequence of sites/services you use * IP address/location * linked accounts * contact info Even one miss/overlap can void your efforts. The big sites have much more to work with than that, making it especially hard. Likewise, if a team takes a specific interest, there are even more correlations that can be done, e.g., behavioral analytics.

vmception 6y ago
Yes absolutely, fingerprinting an individual is easy and avoiding that as a user is hard. Social media sites (Facebook products) might drive ads based on fingerprinting but they aren't re-linking social graphs this way. Sticking with the reliability of shared phone numbers and emails (and people friending/inviting the same people and having the same name theyve seen before)