I use Ageis auth for my proton account’s 2FA token and ente auth for all my other 2FA tokens

I don’t use google photos or nextcloud, I use ente photos.

I don’t use opera or librewolf, I use brave, tor and mullvad browser sometimes when I use mullvadVPN

First I’m hearing about app lounge, I was already using f-droid for some things

Luma stealer never went away, redline stealer is still around too

You got container tabs to consistently work? Every time I use them they get reset to the default 4. Right now I’m using brave with multiple profiles. I block all of youtube’s ads out of spite now

I taught 3 of them to “high five” , “shake” and “sit” and the 4th one meows and yowls when you sing 1950s songs to her

Like Bobby Darin’s “pretty ms kitty”

Or “Sharon” by the same guy “I ain’t Sharin Shorn with’a’nobody else!”

There’s loads of other reasons to be anonymous online too.

Mostly for your own physical safety. Also none of this crap is about protecting kids. Middle aged wine-moms need to parent their stupid kids instead of letting the family iPad be the caretaker. Pornstars aren’t at fault if little timmy sees a pair of tits or a vagina, that would be the kid’s parents who are at fault

What the fuck, how is this the first time I’m hearing about this…

Because the media is evil and none of that bullshit is about protecting kids, they just want us to dox ourselves so we’re afraid to criticize anything

“No sir, I’m off the clock now, Unless you’re paying overtime I’ll see you tomorrow”

I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be propaganda written by the feds in the US for consent manufacturing

but I also wouldn’t be surprised if this is actually true

so compartmentalize it for just watching youtube. make a new profile on your privacy-friendly web browser just for that, load that profile up with all the annoyance blocking things you need and leave the main daily-driver profile free from google.

and don’t use any of google’s services on mobile if you can

a few months ago, youtube implemented AI-based age assurance where to prove you’re an adult if the AI thought you were underage, you could either

1. dox yourself by uploading an ID that they absolutely WILL keep on file forever and will inevitably leak when they get hacked in the future
2. add a credit card to your account so they can trick you into paying for youtube premium when you accidentally click on something in the future or 3. if your account is old enough and has gotten continuous consistent use then they’ll just go with that

The media is evil and didn’t give the story any attention

at one point I had 6 cats and 3 dogs

old google accounts that have been regularly used for their entire existence are whitelisted by youtube’s age assurance, because if the google account is beyond like…10 years old and has been getting continuous use the entire time then there’s no way it belongs to a kid anymore

that’s why I kind of regret deleting my older Gmail addresses, the one I use to watch youtube is still pretty old over 15 years. but I had one google account that would be 19 years old by now

“last year” doesn’t really do it justice They had tons of data breaches last year, the really bad one was after some places forced people to upload their IDs

How old are you? 30 years is a long time

I’m in my mid thirties and I sure as hell am not giving my identity documents to a service that gets hacked every other week

what’s the prognosis if I have 4?

Well, I am Zeus

This is why I don’t go to the gym in January

One time when I was a kid I left one of my dresser drawers open on purpose just because I knew my big fluffy Maine Coone would take a cat nap in there, sure enough, I was right, when I got back from school she was in there

Sometimes a wheelchair bound person might still be able to move his or her legs, but not reliably enough to walk on his or her own

that’s why that wheelchair is set up like that, I’ve been around a lot of disabled people