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[sandyut]

a few years back I opted out of this site, but apparently that doesnt stick. If you dont want anyone who wants to to have access to where you live and who you are related to, I would highly recommend opting out.

this is the link to where you can do this.

I do it because my sociopathic sister is still breathing and I dont want her to know where I live.

 

[DougE]

It's damn near impossible these days to remain anonymous if you use the internet. There are just too many sources collecting your data.

If I think about some product, or what have you, without even doing an online search, I get ads steering to sources for said products. Now, that's creepy as he-double toothpicks.

 

[sandyut]

It's damn near impossible these days to remain anonymous if you use the internet. There are just too many sources collecting your data.

If I think about some product, or what have you, without even doing an online search, I get ads steering to sources for said products. Now, that's creepy as he-double toothpicks.

So true! I also use Norton antivirus that has a thing that looks up who is selling your data. took some effort, but I got my spam emails down from 20-30 a day to maybe none to one a day.

It makes me boil over that some website can post my address to the world without permission. There are too many crazies out there!! What if I was being stalked?? My sister is like that!

 

[indaswamp]

Use a tracker blocker....

 

[sandyut]

Just checked to see if they removed me. I no longer exist! Psycho sister cant find me! That is a good feeling!!!

 

[Torch&Tone]

It's damn near impossible these days to remain anonymous if you use the internet.

Not just the internet, unfortunately. A lot of your data ends up online from lax policies at banks, service providers, and government. Some companies quietly sell your data just to make an extra buck for their shareholders. Legally, things like your mortgage and parts of your voter record (address and whether you voted, though not how you voted) are public record by default - obscuring those can be a real pain.

However, there are steps you can take to cut down your exposure, depending on how much convenience you are willing to trade for anonymity. There are heaps of communities, guides, and tools, for both your online and offline life. No wonder that even the kids these days dream of an off-grid existence...

 

[sandyut]

Not just the internet, unfortunately. A lot of your data ends up online from lax policies at banks, service providers, and government. Some companies quietly sell your data just to make an extra buck for their shareholders. Legally, things like your mortgage and parts of your voter record (address and whether you voted, though not how you voted) are public record by default - obscuring those can be a real pain.

However, there are steps you can take to cut down your exposure, depending on how much convenience you are willing to trade for anonymity. There are heaps of communities, guides, and tools, for both your online and offline life. No wonder that even the kids these days dream of an off-grid existence...

Kids today have no idea how good we had it. Ride off with the crew after being told "be home for supper". No one ever knew all the s**t we did, except us. No helmets, drank from the hose you know.

Norton has a feature that tells me who is selling my data, takes some work at first to opt out of all of them, but after 6 months one will pop up again. the opt out process is easy and painless and SO worth it.

 

[indaswamp]

Kids today have no idea how good we had it. Ride off with the crew after being told "be home for supper". No one ever knew all the s**t we did, except us. No helmets, drank from the hose you know.

Norton has a feature that tells me who is selling my data, takes some work at first to opt out of all of them, but after 6 months one will pop up again. the opt out process is easy and painless and SO worth it.

Did you grow up in my neighborhood????? If my mom knew how far we ranged on our bikes with rods n reels fishing everywhere we could (and some places we shouldn't) She would have had a heart attack!! But, it taught us real life skills... how to be independent and take care of ourselves. We were deathly afraid to call home if we got into trouble...if they found out how far we were from home!! Kids today have no idea!!

 

[DougE]

If my mom knew how far we ranged on our bikes with rods n reels fishing everywhere we could (and some places we shouldn't) She would have had a heart attack!!

The only way my parents ever knew where I went and what I did was if me and my friends got busted doing something we shouldn't have been doing. Other than that, they didn't worry much about our whereabouts. Different world back then.

 

[JRC]

I agree with the too many places collecting to much data philosophy.

I wish our spam load was 20-30 a day. We have a spam load of 250-300. Part of that is because we have our own domain and you can send an email to an address with anything in front of the @ and it'll go through. It doesn't need to be specific to me.

I use Outlook rules religiously and send emails to the deleted folder. We're probably 90-95% successful in keeping the junk out of the inbox.

Now.........................getting off of the multitude of lists is a whole separate problem.

 

[DougE]

I really get very few spam emails. Some are from sites I actually allow, so my filter shouldn't be catching those.

 

[Brokenhandle]

I can't say too much about the computer side of things... but heck ya to drinking out of a garden hose and riding in the back of a pickup truck! The good ole days!

Ryan