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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Email: [email protected] Address: 123 Main St Phone: 555-555-5555 DoB: 01/01/2000 Gender: other (all) Income: $3.50

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

Even kids know how to enter fake data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

You need to replace a lot of those words with profanity to get the message across.

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

Me, in the before times.

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

... and uses the wifi there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

The only reason I'm using the wifi is because there's bad 5G reception.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I just clone someone else's already active mac address, it works every time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago

Bro, just one more piece of info bro. Come on bro, just one more piece of your personal info and I'll let you sign on to the "free" wifi. Bro come on bro, just one more piece of personal info, it's no big deal for some wifi bro.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. They deserve nothing. LIE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

This is what I do.

Today I signed into some "free" wifi as Joe mama ([email protected])

Smooth sailing for Joe after that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm often [email protected] with a name of admin admin, a birth date of 01/01/1970 a phone number of 4041234567 and address of 123 main street anytown, USA

And then if they expect me to retrieve info from said email or phone number I simply move on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The professionals try to insert some xss attacks into the forms; or all kinds of quote and comma characters in case the data is exported as csv at some point :)

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

You can save different identities using one password and then every time you sit down at your computer you can just make up new details for those identities in one password so that when you go to the mall, You're not always Chungus McGrungledunk, but sometimes they're going to be offering a free trial to, Faurtstick Blastschish or whatever name I give the email address I spin up for the purpose.

It's good to register a burner domain that you don't care about and once you have the processed enough different identities through it simply stop renewing it and sign up for new one.

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

That takes some money and effort though. Not something these places deserve.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Breathing isnt free in todays world

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

That's when I use the oldest human invention: LYING.

Fake email, fake address, tell them I make more than the highest option they give for the income, make up the entirely unique gender of squorp, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They don't care. They're just turning around and repeating your lies to whatever advertiser is so stupid as to believe their demographic sales pitch.

Hurt them by not using it. That's the biggest number that feeds their machine.

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

I think if you lie and use a VPN there might be less data for them to profit from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I'm pretty sure hitting someone with a rock pre-dates lying. Try that instead next time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

On some public networks, my Wireguard VPN just doesn't work. Although I can connect to my server using SSH, so I assume the network was configured to block certain ports or how else can it block VPN connections?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Many networks block UDP ports, which is what wireguard uses. If you can configure the serverside part of the VPN, you could try running it on port 123, which is used for the network time protocol (ntp), which also uses UDP and is open nearly everywhere

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 hours ago

having no idea what the fuck these letters mean I think this dude is correct

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I went to a restaurant recently that asked me to pay my bill with the QR code on the tablet. Scanned it, and the first thing it did was ask for my phone number to verify my "account" by sending me a code.

The server didn't understand that I wasn't going to do that, and they needed to run my credit card like normal or I wasn't paying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

But what's the big deal? It's just an account, sir. Everyone does it. It doesn't mean anything.

These are the thoughts of people who truly have no idea what's going on in the world, and those people are abundant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm like: "I only have a work phone, I can't do things like that on it."

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

Whip out your decoy Nokia 7110 instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I'm never going back to that place again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

That's why in some ways I don't mind that my country still pays for mobile data, because I just don't even bother at restaurants anymore "oh, I've run out of data, I can't scan that, here's my money"

Because of how severely covid lock downs hit our state, every single restaurant I've been to in the last 5 years has used a QR code to order and pay.

I have allergies, so this means I mostly just order black coffee when it's QR only.

I'm not giving you all of my personal details for an overpriced $5 black coffee. The result is that I sit there with my friends, fiddling my thumbs, not buying anything.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

Oh, it's not a swindle. What you do is, see, you give 'em all your credit card numbers, and if one of them is lucky, they'll send you a prize!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

i have an alter ego called Nunya Business

email: [email protected]

he uses a VPN when connected to public wifi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Mine just says "FUCK YOU"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Rule of thumb on the Internet, if you can't see how it's payed for (subscriptions, ads, donations...) then you probably pay with your personal data.

Especially true for apps and games. "Play totally free, no annoying adds or in-app purchases" means "Here is a trojan horse pretending to be a game while farming every possible information from your device to sell to the highest bidder".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Small shout out to Apple here, perhaps, for their little privacy report card. Here is Angry Birds 2:

A transcription app by a cool solo dev:

Y'all trust these?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Fake info, then VPN.

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