You know those movies were the main character blinks and their stuff gets stolen? That’s pretty much true in some of the cities.
Also if someone is asking you for gas money, help at the atm, trying to sell you something random - leave.
lemmy.one/c/scams seems to have a lot of the common ones listed. It might be worth lurking on r/scams to see if there’s anything more current to watch out for.
(I use KeepassXC)
I use the notes section alot. I can store all kinds of related info. For example on sites that still use a username to login, I can put the email I used to sign up in the notes section.
I’ll also do security questions answers here. Using a pasphrase generator for those is good. No one is going to check if your first dog’s name really was “consoling-roving-activator-earflap” and no one can find it on your over sharing grandma’s Facebook.
I’ll also attach any license keys/relevant files for software, now those stay encrypted and backed up with the database instead of in a random folder of text files.
If they make an example of the big rule breakers, the rest will fall into line, making it easier to spot the little trouble makers…think of it like form mods. Sure they can’t catch everything, but by constantly allowing garbage through, that’s all they’ll get. If they enforce the rules then less will attempt to break them.
In UB popup when you click the extension, there’s a “color picker”/“eye dropper” icon, click that, click what you want gone and it’ll give you a preview. Click okay and poof, it’s gone.
If you want to undo, go to the full settings page, one of the tabs is user filters (or custom filters), and you’ll see everything you’ve blocked.
I subscribe, set my bookmark to go straight to the subs page so I don’t miss anything. No need to “ring the bell” if your feed is only people you subscribed to. Once in a while, I’ll go to the home page to see if anything interesting is recommended.
I use Unlock Origin to manually block all the junk in the feed - “shorts”, “YT premium content”, “trending now” etc.
I know it’s terrible for privacy.
You’re looking for a solution in the wrong place. Why should you compromise your viewport into the outside world due to some random peepers? Simply mount an auto targeting kilowatt laser on the roof (xkcd 382).
By removing the source of the problem, you can continue to use your window to its fullest potential.
Many car infotainment/navigation systems suck. Android Auto and Apple Car play do not suck (as much), and the bigger car screen is great for maps.
Additionally, some cars will show the nav instructions on the dash, my car shows an arrow of the direction I need to go and the distance until then. Reduces the need to look at the map constantly wondering which turn to take.
For anyone who drives to different places regularly, doesn’t want to buy a dedicated car gps, or pay to update in-car maps - a phone is the way to go.
The security implications of what you’re asking for are terrible. Imagine I get an email passwords combo, I use a service to scrape the web of everywhere else that email exists, now I only have test a handful of sites not all of them.
Keep changing all the passwords you can. If you’ve forgotten the site, then as long you change the important ones - worst case they get an already public email and password that’s not repeated anywhere important.
As for payment info, if you get a brand new card number that’s the easiest route. Otherwise you’ll have to rely on the expiration and new security code to eventually invalidate anywhere the number remains.
Using any kind of proxy card, like privacy.com is a good idea. Failing that, at a minimum have a separate savings account and only keep whatever you need available on the debit card to minimize potential losses. Additionally, it’s recommended to use a credit card as they tend to offer better fraud protection then a typical bank card (citation needed).
Note, I am not a financial or security expert. Just some bloke sharing what works for me.
Software simply being FOSS does not equal trust. It never has, and never should.
A free program certainly doesn’t make it trustworthy.
edit: as pointed out, free stands for liberty to do as you please, not the financial definition. With that in mind, I definitely wouldn’t call Grayjoy FOSS due to the license. I like my made up classification, but maybe this would work better; ROSS, “restricted open source software.”
An open source program doesn’t make it trustworthy. Unless you vet the program yourself you can never be 100% trusting.
For most of us, we’re trusting the smaller community of people who actually go through the code for us. We don’t trust individual pieces of FOSS, we trust the FOSS community and recognize that a developer is less likely to place malicious software in the code. However, it’s also much easier for a malicious 3rd party to fork the program and infect the code.
I’m confident that anything FUTO puts out is going to be heavily looked over by all the Louis haters and fanboys - if they’re up to something shady, we’ll hear about it.
This particular software is what I’d call Open Source Donation Ware (OSDW)
“please pay us but we aren’t checking if you do. Here’s the code, if you want you could copy it and remove the payment all together. However, we retain the legal right to destroy any fork that adds spy/malware.”
As a model, I can respect it. It’s a good medium between releasing the program to the wild and being closed source. It’s also a good model for making money for their work, pretty much like winrar’s approach (rip now that windows is finally getting native .rar support). Yes, some programs are more subtle with a little coffee cup button, but as long as it doesn’t constantly nag you, I’m okay with a more prominent ‘donation’ button.
Firefox has profiles, it’s just not nearly as intuitive/easy to find as Chrome.
I had created shortcuts on the desktop to easily choose between them. One for “school” one for “junk/entertainment” and for “important/shopping”
Eventually after school, I merged them and just use containers. This when I started using a separate password manager. For the sites I have multiple accounts for, it’s no trouble to pick the one I need.
If I ever need a completely separate work browser, I’d use a separate profile for that.
I do keep an “add-on free” profile for when I run into some website that’s completely broken otherwise, but rarely need it.
Anybody else come here curious about actual 12ft ladder alternatives and why they wouldn’t work on sites anymore?