Object permanence? I do not know her. My brain is an etch-a-sketch in a horse cart riding over cobblestone. The horses are unruly today, I forgot my tea in the kitchen again
might fuck around and start putting the comma in the year
August 16th 2,020
Ooooooo I don’t like that
the fucked up thing about job interviews is that everybody Knows that youre just there because you need money to stay alive, everyone Knows that the companys interests are in your mind secondary at best to you having a home and not starving, but they still need to hear you beg and tell them how much The Company means to you and how great an opportunity it is to work for them its so masturbatory
when you can sense a Mood incoming and feel like a farmer standing in a field looking out at the horizon as the storm approaches like “looks like it’s gonna be a bad one, boys”
*bartender slides my drink to me from across the bar and i fucking fling it back twice as hard*
tsuyuzakimahiru-deactivated2020
Search up how lobsters communicate. Then you'll fucking understand my pain.
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tsuyuzakimahiru-deactivated2020
Please make it stop I’m begging you
I wish I could back to a time where I didn't know this information.
*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*
NEWS FROM BULLSHIT CITY:
Your Friends had a Weird Discussion About Marbles
asian
I wonder how the meteor that was supposed to hit us back in 2012 is doing and if it’s interested in hitting us now
hank0331
I’ll repost this whenever I see it on my dashboard.
fuck…
So, one thing you can do is use Firefox instead of Chrome. Another thing you can do is use duck duck go instead of google search. In fact you know what let me get on desktop and make a proper reply, give me about an hour and I’ll hook y’all up with some privacy
ok I took a bit more than an hour, I have time blindness don’t @ me.
Step one, download and install Firefox.
It will ask if you want to import all your bookmarks and saved passwords from your current browser/s. Do that. It will also ask if you want to make it your default browser. Do that too.
You will be given the option to create an account, but it’s not mandatory. It’s just a convenience service if you want to access your bookmarks and saved passwords on different devices.
Firefox has a load of built-in privacy protections but we’re going to install some addons to make it EVEN BETTER. Don’t worry they’re all free and once you’ve installed them you don’t have to think about them again.
First, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials. Firefox does still set your default search engine to Google, we don’t want that. You could manually change it but the Duck Duck Go addon gives you some tracker blocking, encryption, private searching, all set up and ready to go
Next you need an ad blocker. ABP went stupid, so here’s uBlock
Do you use farcebook or any related product like instagram? Facebook Container automatically puts those in a little quarantine pen so they can’t follow you around and spy on what else you’re doing
If you have multiple accounts (eg. work/school, family, public, personal, private) you can use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to manage them and keep their footprints separate
Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere are published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and those people are serious as a heart attack when it comes to online privacy.
Privacy Badger sends a do not track signal, and also breaks link tracking by sites like facebook, twitter, etc.
HTTPS Everywhere is… ok there’s a lot to explain here, and we’re already longposting so just, every time you connect to any page it makes it more secure.
If you want to learn a bit about how this works and why it’s good to have, might as well start with the HTTPS page on wikipedia
You could stop here, that’s pretty good. But you can do more. You could install NoScript. A big warning with this one, it can break half the internet. It’s a LOT more user friendly than it used to be but if you can’t figure shit out by fucking around you should probably skip it. It blocks scripts from running without permission, protecting you from drive-by scripts that give your computer herpes, but also sometimes protecting you from script-heavy sites working at all.
Lastly an honourable mention for Ghostery. Ghostery has been a solid privacy addon for years, and now has adblocking powers. Honestly I haven’t used it in ages, a long time ago it conflicted with something else I deemed more important so I removed it and I never got around to picking it back up, but it has a great reputation and is trusted by a lot of people who I trust.
Now, this all only covers your browser activity, which is a lot but you will still need to manually adjust privacy settings on your google/gmail/youtube account/s if you have any, your facebook/instagram account/s if you have any, and your actual gotdamn operating system if you use windows. I know it seems like a lot of effort, I’m a lazy bitch too, but it’s very set-and-forget, you only need to do it once, and then just review it a couple of times a year.
Here’s some stuff about Windows 10 privacy settings
And some stuff about google privacy settings
And some stuff about facebook privacy settings
And here’s an honest explanation of what a VPN really does and does not do, why you don’t actually need one, and the few real reasons you might ever want one
And a bit about password managers
This is by no means the limit of the steps you can take to secure your online privacy, if you want to go deeper you definitely can. But if you don’t want to or don’t have the time or aren’t very technically minded, this will still put you way ahead of the pack. It won’t make you The Most Private but it will make you Much More Private Than Most, and it should take you less than an hour or two, depending on how many accounts you have on predatory datenkraken sites.
Now go hide your panties from the evil empire.
i will add that ublock’s ‘cosmetic filtering’ (the little eye on their icon menu) is on by default & can donk up small but seemingly unconnected things, and you can turn it off with no real problem I’ve found yet
I will add that making these changes does more than improve your online privacy. I had several computers get absolutely wrecked by walware when I was younger, but the second I started using NoScript, that issue completely stopped. This was about ten years ago. There are two caveats: you need to develop a good sense of which domains to allow scripts from, and any content creators you like won’t get any ad revenue from you, so it would be nice if you could support them in other ways like Patreon.
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