Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Saturday 26 July 2025
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Woke up 🥱 Back to the tech bullshit.
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I’ve already switched to Duck Duck Go on my phone which is a bit hard to get used to. Oh well. Gotta do it on the computer now. I’m making non-Gmail versions of my emails and replacing them on the appropriate platforms to ensure I retain access to those connected services if I lose access to the gmail (even if it’s only to have the option to overwrite or delete them). Reddit is demanding government id now so I’m wondering whether I should use that addon to mass redact my posts and delete my account. It breaks my heart to do it. It’s a lot of history with some fantastic people, so many posts with Melbcat including adopting her, and it all probably documents stuff I might want to refer to. And it’s the last nail in the coffin of me potentially returning there. </3 At the same time I don’t trust Spez with his intent to emulate Musk and the way he handled changes to the site, am annoyed I didn’t do it before ai scraped my content, and it’s possibly better not to leave so much personal info sitting on there. I wonder if there’s a way to download it for myself and then wipe it off Reddit. I don’t know. I’ll have to see how long I have to decide. Probably not long :( Next on the agenda is getting my photos and files back off the cloud. Need to see how long I have to do that.
The privacy and physical media buffs were so right. I didn’t have the time or savvy to be preventative but I can try my best now.
bacon@aussie.zone 4 days ago
We use VPN
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 days ago
VPN would get me banned or shadowbanned from socmed but I want to look into VPN for general use anyway.
The free ones have a reputation for being dodgy so I’m wondering about the free one included with the Opera browser?
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I use Brave browser when also has a VPN option and lots of inbuilt “do not track” privacy settings. I’ve not used the VPN much but just adding it as an option for yiu
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I’ll look into it, thanks
bacon@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Ohh I need to look into that
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 days ago
nah I live in PIA and haven’t had issues
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 days ago
What vpn do you use?
bacon@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Just Proton. Free.
kudra@aus.social 4 days ago
@bacon @StudChud be careful with Proton. I've now seen several accounts of people having issues with Proton VPN then getting their entire Proton suite locked and no recourse: as bad as Google. Also they have autopayment without notification which some people will definitely take issue with.