yomlica8

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by yomlica8 3y ago
Seems like you could just blast it out on one of the endless Microsoft telemetry or update channels that are chatting away all day and either intercept outside the network or with Microsoft's help. Only way to protect against that woul
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by yomlica8 3y ago
They have changed the UI to make you think it is required. Start with old.reddit.com and click next with the field empty.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Are you saying that privacy.com also creates fake names and addresses for the purpose of charging? I always assumed it was just another number in your name. (never used this service, but it does seem useful)
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by yomlica8 3y ago
That hasn't been my experience. Most services that demand a phone number lock you out if you don't cough one up, and reject VoIP and temporary service numbers. Some of them even reject prepaid numbers now. Microsoft recently extor
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Really? Only thing I've noticed is you appear to be auto-shadow banned when using a VPN.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Reddit basically stole all of traditional forums' thunder and removed their weaknesses as the same time. Setting up, maintaining and moderating a forum takes time and money. It takes less of the former and maybe none of the later. And
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by yomlica8 3y ago
It can help, but most OSes are in on the scam so it often asking the fox to guard the hen house.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Never leave money on the table! You can't even buy your way out of it like people suggest. The fact that you want to do that signals you have money and makes your data even more valuable. Even companies that do not do this currently, a
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I thought debit cards weren't a lot better than bank transfers in this regard. Credit cards certainly are better though.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Recovery phone numbers are much more useful for user tracking than emails though.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
How well does this work? Always sounded to good to be true to me.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
But I didn't buy the OS. It was force installed while I slept after I failed a dark pattern check due to fatigue.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Of course, the only way to get it seems to be to pirate it. Is there a recommended way to do this? My partner isn't ready to give up on Windows yet and I'm trying to find the least bad path.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I'd just disable the TPM in bios. Although I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to force install it on unsupported hardware.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
The main problem with Windows' terrible settings is that they are constantly changing. So when you search for how to change something all the instructions are obsolete.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
K-Mart apparently tracks with facial recognition. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/bunnings-kmart-invest...
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Chrome also stealth installed itself with Adobe flash and reader updates with a default check. I remember it in antivirus software and who knows what else. I'll admit this traditional installer dark pattern seems quaint compared to wha
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when plastic bags were pushed as the environmentally superior option. Something about cutting down to many trees for bags.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Yeah, that is what happened to me as well. Now I have to buy the bags anyway. I do hunt out extremely cheap thin bags that probably use less plastic per bag than the grocery store ones as they don't need to be as durable for most of th
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by yomlica8 3y ago
It was a F2P first person shooter that uses phone numbers for verification. CoD I believe, but it looks like blizzard does it as well for battle.net. I remember it because before that I assumed they had no way to determine how the phone num
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Given that many services do not accept VoIP numbers now and some even reject prepaid mobile numbers I'm not sure how long a service like this would work. Although maybe if Apple made it a default perhaps it couldn't be blocked lik
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by yomlica8 3y ago
The ones that get me are the recovery login emails for services I never used. Some of them might be shotgun phishing attempts but some look like they actually were allowed to sign up without ever verifying their email.
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by yomlica8 3y ago
If they were honest, more people would opt out of the deal. The waste your time signing up for an account so that there's a loss incurred by abandoning it. Then accusation is a lie that probably helps shame some percentage of people in
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I'd be a lot less concerned about more unnecessary captchas and more concerned about what kind of traffic VPN randos are piping in and out of my home ip address. This could maybe work as a legit region blocking workaround service if th
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Are we sure they didn't just lose the source code entirely?
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I remember reading that there was a lot of data storage "left on the table" with floppy drive tech before it was finally abandoned. They apparently stored bits uniformly across the disk instead of more densely at the edges where d
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I'm kind of thinking of doing the outdoor side of the house run myself. All my network equipment is in the basement and the second floor would involve difficult drilling and cutting holes in drywall to get access to drill. I don't
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Insurance seems really weird to me with self driving cars. It seems like the driver being insured is Tesla Motor Co not Bill Smith. Bill just owns the car, he doesn't drive it. I've noticed a lot of automation legally still requir
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by yomlica8 3y ago
I believe a lot of online services refuse to do phone verification with VOIP so there's a cost to going this route. I wouldn't be surprised if they start to block prepaid phones soon as well, they already do for some online game r
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by yomlica8 3y ago
Yeah, I don't like any 'pull' bill payment at all. I know exactly why they do it. It is a lot harder to get the money back after the screw you than it is to bail on a changed deal.

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