Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed

subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I really don’t understand lazy censoring. You can either not use the thin pen tool or just spend a few more seconds making sure it’s unreadable. What’s the point of doing it at all if people can still decipher what you’re obscuring?

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  • Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Honestly I didn’t try that hard. I don’t live there anymore nor do I know anyone or anything that is still there so who cares if people know I guess

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The question was why bother

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I agree with the other reply and would honestly love an answer, if only to get a peek under the hood of people who do this.

      If you didn’t try that hard because you didn’t care, again, why did you even bother? It’s like trying to scoop water with a colander, on some level you have to know it’s wasted effort, right?

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        its more than likely “it can’t hurt, so might as well” more than anything.

        If they really didnt want it, they wouldn’t have posted this at all, or like other suggested properly censored it, they simply tried here, deemed “most people won’t bother” and moved on from it.

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Or just increase the size of the pen tool…

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• Sewer_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Imagine not living in 616 though.

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• dragnucs@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I you know it because you are most probably from there or US.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, it’s because of how poorly obscured it is in the 5th one from the top - there’s no other numbers it could be.

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    • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Exactly, I was surprised that 989 was even a valid area code tbh, just doesn’t look right

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• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s Pure Michigan, friend.

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In general I think best practice is to call out “hey, I can see your area code in case you want to edit your post to more fully redact in” then any jokes about “since I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in [REDACTED] either!”

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