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The AdNauseam thing is neat. I didn't know about that one.
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Don't set your date only to 1970-01-01. Set it wildly wrong every time, lie about your gender, etc
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I just avoid most of that shit. This may be a hot take, it may be impractical to people who are younger than me, or live different lives, have different needs, but for me, I just avoid it. I think it's a generational thing. Generation X, we were fine with forums, and AOL/AIM, and ICQ, and all that good stuff, but when these sites started asking for our real names, I think a lot of us just said no. Some of us stayed on with Twitter for a while, some of us went to Reddit until that went tits up (I mean it's still there but it sucks now), and I'm sure some of us did cave and start using the real-name services, maybe to reconnect with old flames or whatever. But for me, and others like me, we just said no.
I don't use Facebook. I don't use Twitter. I had a MySpace for a while, but ditched it. So I'm not completely pure. I also used Windows through the first couple (major) versions of Windows 11 before switching to Macintosh (well, Mac — the full name hasn't been formally used in a long time). So Apple does have some of the same bullshit as Windows, you need an account, there's an App Store (similar to the Windows Store, and just as useless), and there's technically AI, if Siri counts (we — Mac users, I mean, basically never use it, it's always been useless), but if you just wanna say "fuck the system" while still using something with commercial support, Mac's a solid choice. (Of course, Linux is better, especially if you already have a Windows computer and you're looking to break away, but also, a majority of Linux users consider Windows their safety net, or backup plan. Having actual Macs means no, I don't have a backup plan, I can't just fall back to Windows, unless Windows for ARM becomes viable and supports Macs. I'm all in getting TF away from Windows and Copilot.
Of course, I do a lot of the things the image suggests. I invert my birthday. MM-DD to DD-MM and, for the year, ABCD to ABDC. For a while, this didn't work to make me appear to be over 18, so I'd just add or remove 5 or something like that, but now, my "ABDC" year is over 21, so it's fine. It's also easy to remember, if I need to recall my "birthdate," I do the math in my head and there it is. It's not random and it doesn't look random.
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The guerrilla warfare the fascist megacorp overlords forced us into.
I already do much of this. One issue recently for me is when filling out info for email and phone number it has now become a requirement to add correctly (most of the time) because these cunts are going to send me email verification codes and text me at my number ending in 1337 for the 2fa to get into an acct that does NOT need that yet forces it. And I can't even use my flipper as a u2f without using Chrome since Firefox considers serial passthrough "insecure," that's why I can't use it to update my meshtastic nodes either. Pisses me off tbh. I can use a semi-retired email, and do, but still.
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so i was reasonably regionally famous at one point. i theoretically did not make the best use of my name. someone sharing it played for the Sportsball Hoggers (CRANK THEM HOGS AROO) for like 3 years and was a total fuckup and completely tainted the name. look me up and you'll find them. so i got that going for me. I still got to aol, gmail, yahoo, hotmail, all the major email services first and got the firstname.lastname at email dot com for my name at all of them with no numbers, and the more famous yet lesser version of me has been sending me hate mail about it for like 25 years.
With those up voting wrong answers and down voting good ones all you do is annoy a gig worker in the Philippines or Africa. It won’t taint the model. Since the gig worker will check if it is actually correct or not.
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I like the idea of poisoning advertiser data, but I'd prefer AdNaseum as a self hosted app that randomly browses and clicks on ads.
The natural extension of a life sustained on caffeine, nicotine, and spite.
They may have the power but I'll be damned if I don't make using it cost as much as possible.
That's the least productive way of opposing corporates
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Commoners: “She’s a witch! She’s speaking in tongues!”
tis why the best you can do for normies, is just to opt out. Shit’s more complicated than cereal bowl’s escape puzzle.
You guys werent already doing this?
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Dmant this is is some "minimize your carbon footprint" bullshit.
Do something real if you actually care.
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