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[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wanna have something to chuckle?

I’ve made a specific email for NSFW 18+ internet websites (there’s one with achievements and I wanted to have recommendations) and this email address, being used at every single site I’ve visited more often, never got leaked.

Meanwhile I log in with Google and 4 hours later the nigerian prince asks me why I have changed my email address.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

Yup, i have one for adult sites aswell. Never got spam, never got leaked, nothing.

But the one from the free mail provider i used to login into big data websites is full of shit at this point.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Configure an individual Mail address for every site you need one for. You then know who sells or loses your address without telling you.

[–] qaz 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Do you have some tidbits to share on who is being naughty? I'm curious.

[–] qaz 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sadly no, I haven't received any spam on my 131 forwarding addresses. I have however, received spam on my new main account after sharing the address with my local hairdresser.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fucking hair dressers, can't trust em. That's why I'm bald

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What you need to do is get each individual hair cut by a different hairdresser and then you can see which one is selling your account details or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But then I would lose my completely plausible excuse for having no hair. I'd have to admit to myself that is my genetics and not by choice haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I recently started getting spam to my dailymotion account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nothing recent, one magazine publisher from back when magazines were paper

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget mailing list nags that are engineered to pop up right when you are reading the third sentence of the article.

Right after the BS cookie popup.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Or I click a link to story about a cat stuck in a tree and it takes me to small, local newspaper I've never heard of called "The Sawfly Gazette - serving South Western Maine since 1975!", then it immediately tells me I've hit my "article limit" and must subscribe for $14.95.

[–] FierySpectre 2 points 5 months ago

Something something Firefox extension: "I don't care about cookies"

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

Ublock origin -> filters -> annoyances

[–] TargaryenTKE 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's not even casual internet surfing anymore. While looking for a job several months ago, I had to create a new account on every. Single. Fucking. Application.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have several different Workday accounts because of that.

[–] LordCrom 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Literally 43 workday accounts. And it couldn't reuse the info I put in 42 times before

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 5 points 5 months ago

Agonizing. I'm starting to understand why some people choose to buck the system and live off the land in the wilderness.

[–] AeonFelis 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I never used Workday - why do you need different accounts? Are there per-account limits you need to bypass? Or do multiple companies use their software and you need a different account for each company?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The latter. Every time I have to job hunt, it's mentally exhausting from how frustrating it is. I have over 90 logins to various job sites and that isn't counting the ones using Google login or the ones I just let my browser save and I never copied to my password library.

If I ever have to job hunt again I'm printing out paper resumes and hitting the pavement like it's 1980 again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's probably due to privacy laws that Workday doesn't share your information with other clients.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

and all of them will resell your data to spammers advertisers and worse

[–] MeatsOfRage 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which squares contain buseeeeeeeeees!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Every fucking "select the squares" Recaptcha I do I end up failing multiple times. Am I a mf robot or do other people experience this too?

[–] jeffw 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

insert dick pic album cover here

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

RIP the uneducated masses. It seems easy to us on Lemmy, but for fucks sakes, feel like hardware manufacturers should really step up and stop circle jerking with the likes of Microsoft/Google/Apple etc and ship computers that COME with free open source software as a base. Bit unrelated to the add-on thing, as that is easy as fuck to do and people just don't know, or they don't care

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

They don't know. For computers it is easy, but for Phones - this is really hard. But be glad that the masses don't know about it. They actually watch all ads and bring in the money, so us educated can leech with no ads.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 5 points 5 months ago

There's a merchant I order products from, and the only way to get shipping tracking info is to install an invasive app that leeches all your Google information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Login gates do help ensure ai follows your robots.txt

[–] bruhduh 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

gets lost in the video effect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yes. We like teeth.

You come close enough to the border with your mouth open and your attention diverted.....we gonna get them teeth out your mouth.

Real sneaky-like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)