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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Here are some things you can do, roughly ranked:

    • Use a password manager
    • Assume anything you post/do online/financially can and will be used to build an advertising profile on you/train AI/be shared with government authorities
    • Disable ad personalization/history/sharing of information via privacy settings of mobile phone, mobile apps, Google, Facebook, banks, credit cards, ISP, cellular service, everything
    • Turn off third-party cookies.
    • Use an ad-blocker on desktop and mobile. They also help prevent a lot of tracking.
    • Don’t use Chrome. Consider Firefox/Brave/whatever else
    • Avoid using ad-supported services/companies. Consider using paid alternatives. This means using alternatives to Google Search, GMail, Facebook for photos, etc etc.
    • Use a profile deleting service like https://monitor.mozilla.org/
    • Different browser profiles: general use, Facebook, personal (GMail / Google Docs), and maybe more
    • Use a VPN w/ secured DNS
    • Many Google accounts: one for general, YouTube, Google Docs/personal, and maybe more
    • Use a different email address to sign up for every account. I use StartMail’s aliases
    • Don’t use your personal phone number for most things (finance/healthcare excepted). Get another number via a call and SMS forwarding service