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Privacy.com helps in terms of online payments. Generates credit card numbers that will accept any name or billing address when charged.
Unfortunately it's available only in the US...
Both might require you to get the paid account instead of the "free" one though.
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Unfortunately it's available only in the US...
There are EU-based companies like N26 and Revolut that (I think) give you the ability to generate multiple card numbers. Both might require you to get the paid account instead of the "free" one though.
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These are very good suggestions. Do you use a smartphone? I was wondering if calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower.
> calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower. Not if using whatsapp/messenger for calling over wifi and the probability that the other person has an app capable of calling over wifi different than whatsapp/messenger is rather low.
Keep as much local as possible. Do anything involving money or your personal info inside a dedicated VM running a secure OS, or use QubesOS. Use a dumb phone instead of a smart phone. Keep your passwords in a local encrypted text file. If you need a password or other data on the road, SSH into your home machine from your laptop (which has an encrypted disk). Go back to using fake nick names instead of your real name…
I'm in the process of trying to de-Google my life. Apart from being forced to use Google at my workplace I want nothing to do with them other than google searches. I have 4 Gmails though, a few personal and a few for etc sites. I was thinking about setting up a forwarder for all to 1 email account. Any recommendations for a dumb phone? I know Google and Android phones go hand in hand.
Ended LinkedIn 5 years ago.
Don't use social media. Irony, considering employer.
Use throw away email addresses and phony names wherever possible.
Anywhere that asks for employer or social security number, I just laugh.
Don't give out your deets. I use ad blockers and am not interested in being some corporation's product.
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You’re just giving your data to them though.
It’s not perfect but it’s better than the alternatives. Last four of CC are often used for identity verification, but if I use a unique card number for every site, losing or leaking my Visa card won’t be as harmful.
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Did it exist before 2004? I bet you know!
Wouldn't that imply that you were an employee at Google sometime between 2002-2004? :P Unless I'm not getting the full picture (I was not old enough to be fully aware of Gmail's existence in 2004)
Different account names for everything. I never use my real name and usually browse over Tor or with a VPN. If I watch a video it’s after I liberated it with yt-dlp. Reset my home Internet connection to get a different IP daily. I long ago deleted all my posts to Reddit and Facebook. I also ditched my gmail I had for over 20 years, I don’t trust those weasels.
These are very good suggestions. Do you use a smartphone? I was wondering if calling-over-wifi is less trackable than using a tower.
Removing comments from exising conversations if they don't contain sensitive data is rude IMO. Somebody may want to read the conversation in the future and now they will experience missing comments
Different account names for everything. I never use my real name and usually browse over Tor or with a VPN. If I watch a video it’s after I liberated it with yt-dlp. Reset my home Internet connection to get a different IP daily. I long ago deleted all my posts to Reddit and Facebook. I also ditched my gmail I had for over 20 years, I don’t trust those weasels.