I’ve tried to verify my linkedin, but they required my passport, is it safe?

I have heard of url trackers but how to spot them? Lots of websites have long url and random letters like youtube so how to spot if there is any url trackers in any url of any website? And I also have lots of bookmarks so is it possible for my bookmarks to also contrain trackers?

I wanted to opt-out of the Discord spy.pet site, and to do that you need to send them an email. Unfortunately, I was stupid and sent them an email using my main email that I use for quite a few stuff (nothing actually important money related though). I then saw a thread on here about spy.pet adding an opt-out feature and one of the comments said they'll see if their Gmail gets hacked, and now I'm really panicking.

I signed up for ChatGPT but it wants me to verify my age, I can't do that because I entered all false data.
https://imgur.com/a/yoldETD

People on r/datahoarder try to preserve all data so it is never lost or forgotten. As soon as they hear or suspect that something is about to disappear from the internet they will backup as much as they can.

What are your thoughts about that from a privacy perspective?

I want to find every account I’ve made using my email or phone number or with the same username. What powerful OSINT tools can I use to do this?

so I had an old family pc, and it was in the garage and a family member threw it away. How bad of a security issue would this be the computer did not work and it was 12 years old? It had years of files, photos, and other things...

Do you have an idea how to mitigate tracking via iOS keychain?
Tracking SDKs store a unique id in the iOS keychain which persists app reinstalls.

I realized an an old iphone Youtube adverts were not playing. Thinking about this I've come to the (possible wrong lmk) conclusion that Youtube tests if the video will load, and if the content is not playing bypasses adverts. On the old device it simply didn't have up to date stuffs, but applying this same concept I decided to try mass refreshing the page.
It worked. An advert displays on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.. REALLY (Really youtube?!) but 7'th shows just the video.
there's an argument to be had about displaying a advert in the ifirst place, but timing it this takes much less time then letting adverts play.

I bet a plugin that will put a black box over the window, refresh 100 times, show a counter then show the video would bypass pretty much any Youtube adverts.

I vaguely recall this from Reddit advice years ago. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/19/cybercriminals_threaten_to_leak_all/

While it is true this is probably most worrying if you have a REASON to be in this database (suspected terrorist, money launderer) the database itself is put together from a lot of OSINT sources so there is the potential that people who don't belong in the database are there without reason or their knowledge.

So, i am in this situation where every single library and job requires a fingerprint check in in my country and i don’t want to do it.

Best excuse i once had was eczema but its not gonna work all the time and fingerprint regenerate like deadpool’s dick, so i decided that what if i can temporarily remove them every time i have to be in a position of registering such a checkin method, but i couldn’t find any resource to do that except burning which is kinda dangerous because never damage is never a fun thing.

So does anyone here have any suggestions for me which doesn’t involve glue and fire?

I'm in Canada, if that matters

I know that with 23AndMe, there are huge privacy concerns around doing DNA tests via 23AndMe

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/968stc/comment/e409qg0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

What about doing an IQ test with MENSA https://mensa.ca/take-the-test/ or an IQ test administered by a private psychologist? https://mensa.ca/prior-evidence/ or Stanford Binet 5/ Wechsler Adult and Children Scales

Are there any privacy concerns about doing an IQ test with MENSA, joining MENSA, or doing an IQ test administered by a private psychologist? If so, what would these privacy concerns be and how or in what ways could they impact an individual?

When I say IQ test, I don't mean those unreliable ones found on the Internet for free, I mean legit testing by MENSA or a private psychologist

My new remote job is asking me for a headshot. I've used https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ in the past with success, but last year I saw one of "my" headshots used on another website, so it looks like that site re-uses the faces it generates. Is there a site that produces 1-time, unique faces, or is there a way to make an AI face yourself?

So I have this recruiter in my PM and he says he will get me contact around my area. But he needs my phone number and my first name. Should I give him the information or not?

All nitter instance broke a couple months ago except this one nitter.poast.org (sorry if thats not a hyperlink) does anyone now how this one is still working

After time I get too many mailing lists and also spams. I am looking for the most private and secure way to get rid of them with the minimum risk of lost of privacy. Most of them propose a link to unsubscribe. I guess it works well with serious companies but for the other one by clicking could confirm my active mail ? Until now I copy the link, paste it into incognito mode firefox with ghostery + uBlock and with a protection IP software. How would you improve this process please ?

age is a relatively new file encryption format, that seems to be gaining popularity. Many now prefer it over GPG, because it's a lot simpler to use.

The most popular programs using the format are all command line applications. In an effort to make the age encryption format more accessible, I have written "spind", a graphical program, which can be downloaded for Windows here: https://codesoap.github.io/spind/

spind is completely free to use and its source code is published under the permissive MIT license.

In order to keep things simple, spind only supports password encryption for now. However, if there is significant demand, I will consider adding asymmetric cryptography in an "advanced mode" in the future.

If you give spind a try, please let me know of any feedback you might have, be it negative or positive.

Need help with fixing past mistakes, please correct me if I'm wrong at any point.

Both Apex legends & Fortnite use Easyanticheat

I also play Destiny 2 which means I also run BattlEye.

Call me paranoid but I no longer want these kernel level anti-cheats anywhere close to my PC.

I'm just glad I never touched Vanguard and Tencent...

I have no problem deleting any of these games, but is simply removing the games enough?

To my understanding I can't be 100% sure now that I have had them downloaded, any help would be appreciated.

PS: What's your take on these Anti-cheats?

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This had got to be a stupid question but I cannot find the answer to it anywhere on the Internet.

I'm thinking of moving to MySudo and the plans talk about minutes and texts included however my main use will be Internet. What Data is included with this service?

I'm guessing none as they are not a cellular provider. However what do people do for mobile data in a privacy focused way?

I'm UK based for reference

More and more ppl are using Adobe Scan to archive some of their most important documents like birth certificates, and tax forms, and drive license ID's and all sorts of super important documents.

If there is a breach of Adode Cloud where the documents are stored, this would be a serious breach that allows scammers and hackers to really mess with your identity-----that is to steal it!

apparently, spy.pet added a optout page, which is interresting.
https://blog.spy.pet/p/optout

I keep reading places where it’s stressed that most people (almost no one) needs to enable lockdown mode on the iPhone. Then they list a series of things that seem to mostly limit Apple services.

I mean, security and convenience is always at odds.

Is anyone here using it and do you find it to be any real problem?

Edit to add example