cyberlyra

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by cyberlyra 4y ago
Yes, I regularly use unusual spellings, different postal addresses, pseudonyms, CC's, the whole nine yards.
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
OP here: This is what the article in Public Books is all about. A lot of the "benefits" the Park presents are made up, manufactured conveniences, accompanied by manufactured inconveniences that make it hard for others to resist. T
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
It's not a dealbreaker for practical reasons, it's for moral ones. I don't think they should even ask for or collect that data, given the ability to de-anonymize that the additional information provides them. They don't
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
OP here: For context, the cash is to stop corporate databases from knowing I have children. It's not for obfuscating everything. https://www.optoutproject.net/how-to-keep-your-pregnancy-pri...
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
OP here. My kids know "Mommy doesn't like Google." If we were totally restrictive and opaque about it, it might feel like living in a cult. But I use data privacy techniques to teach our kids about how systems work, where dat
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
It's mom who's obsessed. Dad just enjoyed the experience ;)
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
Thanks! You totally grokked what I'm doing with this--I appreciate it! Yes I do think a lot about the effectiveness of personal responsibility, and its limits. Certainly I could request my logs and data from every company, although tha
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
Not annoyed. Spouse is fully on board. Kids think it's fun, especially as we use data privacy to explain how systems work under the hood. Extended family is supportive. Maybe people are surprised to hear that, but that's been my e
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
Original author here: My phone runs Sailfish, a mobile Linux OS (Red Hat).
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
I agree that, for the premium price, we should get some data privacy in return!
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
As long as it's not that senator who asked Zuckerberg to "shut down finsta"... ;)
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
Original author here. I'm also in favor of more writing about privacy motivation, even if editors don't always want that all in the text they publish. I'm writing more about it at The Opt Out Project in addition to other plac
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
(Original author here). Yes I am aware of the identifiers that are sold through a third party data provider. Reading further, I also note that I decided not to care if Disneyland knows that I went, it was more about continuing to obfuscate
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
(Original author here.) Yes, living this way is sometimes exhausting. I don't expect others to do what I do. I often go to extremes to reveal how complicated opting out actually is, in an effort to point the way to an alternative path
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by cyberlyra 4y ago
I'm the author of the original post. I'm happy to answer questions in thread.