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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"tHiS wEbSiTe Is BeTtEr In ThE aPp!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bold of you to assume people know the difference between an app and a website.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The App:

One WebBrowser component.

A straw to slurp all your location and contact data.

Annoying notifications.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my methods for downloading content for offline perusal that interests me evolve constantly. some of us have been doing for this song and dance for decades, and \

if you want to know how to distribute controversial antifascist content, ask a porn addict

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago
  1. cloudflare decides it doesnt like your user agent or IP or any of a myriad of other factors and denies you access completely, order has been cancelled
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Website wants to know your location

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using webmail can be avoided, but agreed on the rest.

PS: It gets worse when you use a script blocker and have to figure out which scripts are needed per website.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That jumped out to me as well. Even using something like Thunderbird with GMail (even though you really should try moving somewhere that respects your privacy) has such a better feel to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, exactly. I'm still in that intermediate position myself. I'm using Thunderbird and K9-Mail as clients for my Hotmail Account (Microsoft).

It's seems like so much work to move away from the email account I signed up for some 20 years ago, so I've still shied away from doing it so far. At least I started using a password manager a few years ago, so by now I have a list of services, that would require updating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Congrats on taking the first step!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They forgot the last step: delete the promo emails from the company you never signed up for

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The worst thing is that you gave them the permission to send emails to you, but you did not even notice it.

If you give some information to any for profit company you can be sure they will use that information and if you decline the permits they are going to keep asking until you eventually miss click.

For example if you fill shopping basked, but abandon it after filling your information they can contact you once as "a friendly reminder" about the cart and they can keep that information legally for few weeks until they must anomize the data. And if you at some point clicked something where you accept the marketing permits they can keep that information "as long as the company thinks it is reasonable to keep and/or revelant information for their operation."

Source: Im part of the problem. Atleast for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am glad I am using proton. I never give my real email to any website and create an alias for every website. That way, when I ever receive a spam email, I know exactly which company sold my data and I can turn that alias off permanently.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not gonna lie, this ain't wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t forget to reject notifications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And sometimes deny location access.

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