your online paranoia level?
| so thoughts? and do not forget to vote in the poll |
| I dont know what to think anymore. I dont feel safe in general anymore, online or not. |
| I'm not paranoid online or just do not care much. |
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| Would say rather low overall, but I became more paranoid of bots and trolls. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| I used to be a bit paranoid when I was younger, now I've just stopped caring. |
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| I'm paranoid on Instagram because I feel like some of my creepy high school or even college mates are lurking and stalking me, whoever they may be. |
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Reply to Mualani
I'm paranoid on Instagram because I feel like some of my creepy high school or even college mates are lurking and stalking me, whoever they may be.
| @JustMaya Well you gotta be pretty cute for people to want to stalk you. Are you cute enough for that? |
His influence... ...it grows stronger. |
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. π But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people.    |
Reply to Mualani
I'm paranoid on Instagram because I feel like some of my creepy high school or even college mates are lurking and stalking me, whoever they may be.
| @JustMaya Just post the link here, and your problems with highschool/college stalkers will be solved. I call it a substitution principle. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
JustMaya said: I'm paranoid on Instagram because I feel like some of my creepy high school or even college mates are lurking and stalking me, whoever they may be. Creepy stalkers sounds so pessimistic, I think you should call them secret admirers. Having some of them is proof of having a high value, so you should feel popular instead of paranoid. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| I'm too paranoid to share my paranoia levels with the internet. I have no idea what you guys are going to do with my paranoia levels and that makes me paranoid. |
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| I use Linux because I don't like the NSA seeing everything I do on my computer. |
Reply to DesuMaiden
I use Linux because I don't like the NSA seeing everything I do on my computer.
| @DesuMaiden are you hiding something illegal? why care if not? are you a very important person VIP perhaps? |
Reply to DesuMaiden
I use Linux because I don't like the NSA seeing everything I do on my computer.
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Reply to deg
@DesuMaiden are you hiding something illegal? why care if not? are you a very important person VIP perhaps?
| @deg i am not hiding anything illegal, duh. Besides pirating some anime. Just because I wanna protect my privacy online doesn't automatically make me a cybercriminal. |
| I'm much more concerned about offline stuff, it's kinda justified paranoia though. The whole tell a lie for long enough that it becomes the truth stuff really works... |
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Reply to DesuMaiden
@deg i am not hiding anything illegal, duh. Besides pirating some anime. Just because I wanna protect my privacy online doesn't automatically make me a cybercriminal.
| @DesuMaiden if youre on the internet your privacy is basically expose and collected anyway no matter what you do youre too paranoid about online privacy |
| Idc anymore since we cant open map, order thinngs etc unless with permit access location lollll |
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| To some degree, yes, to some degree, no. |
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| Online is like irl for me in that I fear being confronted about my mentally ill cringe arc. BPD really fucks a bitch up ngl. |
  β‘ Harder Daddy β‘ |
| Barely if any, maybe I've just been lucky but I've yet to been doxxed or scammed or anything like that, hopefully I'm not jinxing myself tho lol |
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| There are alot of hackers online. Btw these hackers are real. They could easily hack into your accounts, if they wanted to. |
Might as well chip in this, too. Fun fact, data brokers already have all your personal data, and are legally selling it. As it's being sold legally, random people can buy this info legally, and use it to dox nearly everybody whom they want to, if the motivation is there. Obviously using this legally obtained info for illegal purposes is, duh, fucking illegal, but something being illegal doesn't stop people from doing it anyway. This is how a lot of doxxing occurs, because the means to get the data is basically legal. You can opt out of this, making it legally mandatory for the data broker to delete any data they have on you, but good luck opting out of every single data broker without a fancy service that may still miss some. Like really, good fucking luck opting out of them all. |
Daviljoe193Jul 28, 4:49 PM
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. π But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people. |
| Idc if paranoia, but I’m aware that companies try to take as much information of myself so they can push their services. It doesn’t even has to be good, just good enough that I want to use them. Windows is one of them: really mid OS (windows 11) that is trying to spy as much as possible to form data about you and put it into a prediction model. It is also well known that social media group people and target publicity, sometimes to offer them products other to show them certain information and affect their opinion on the matter. Would I just cut everything? No, but I can minimize it with alternatives that are really good like forums, alternative search engine (like Brave) or alternative OS like Linux. |
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| No offense, but you simply aren't secure if you surf the Internet with Windows. It is only safe to surf the Internet with Linux. |
| i've been cautious since i started. seen too much to not care. and i just so happen to use Linux (Mint). Edit: mitigations against tracking do exist. not a fan of defeatism. |
xfwm4Jul 30, 1:41 PM
| ultrasonic sound coming out your speaker / the force is electric |
| No reason to be paranoid online...because there are obviously no hackers or FBI agents on the Internet. Just joking! There are OBVIOUSLY hackers and FBI agents on the Internet. |
| I find the constant paranoia about online privacy to be a little odd. Most people wouldn't pay a $10/mo premium to be fully private. Closest analogues are VPNs which most do not pay to use. And many who do, do so to access other regions' Netflix shows and shit. Let's be real, privacy, as observed by most people's own actions, doesn't matter *that* much. It matters at the margins, like "would you give your full name for this social media site for this perk!" probably not. But not "I have to use gnu distro and tor browser" and all that jazz. |
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| The fact that DesuMaiden didn't vote for the NTHE option, indicates that he doesn't even believe his own bullshit, lol. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
Reply to Zarutaku
The fact that DesuMaiden didn't vote for the NTHE option, indicates that he doesn't even believe his own bullshit, lol.
| @Zarutaku Is it possible to see who voted what? How? |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
Reply to LoveYourSmile
@Zarutaku Is it possible to see who voted what? How?
| @LoveYourSmile At least until very recently, there were zero votes for the NTHE option, even after he left his obligatory comments, so... |
Daviljoe193Jul 30, 7:29 AM
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. π But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people. |
Reply to LoveYourSmile
@Zarutaku Is it possible to see who voted what? How?
| @LoveYourSmile When I wrote my comment there were 0 votes for the NTHE option even after he replied 5 times in this topic already, now he probably read my post and changed his vote to not expose himself. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
Reply to Zarutaku
@LoveYourSmile When I wrote my comment there were 0 votes for the NTHE option even after he replied 5 times in this topic already, now he probably read my post and changed his vote to not expose himself.
| @Zarutaku True desu should have voted for some other option to mislead fbi/csi... |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| There are definitely hackers and law enforcement on the Internet. So watch out! |
| I've always been pretty paranoid about my personal information or accounts, but I'm too ignorant of internet technology to turn into a sociopath with a bunch of different accounts and a complex proxy system. |
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| To be on the safe side, you should refrain from posting anything online that can easily be traced back to your IRL identity. So that means no photographs of your face, never post your real name, never reveal your city of residence, never reveal your birthday, etc. There are dangerous cybercriminals lurking on the Internet, who are looking for your personal info to steal. |
Reply to DesuMaiden
To be on the safe side, you should refrain from posting anything online that can easily be traced back to your IRL identity. So that means no photographs of your face, never post your real name, never reveal your city of residence, never reveal your birthday, etc. There are dangerous cybercriminals lurking on the Internet, who are looking for your personal info to steal.
| @DesuMaiden I said it before, and I'll say it again. One of the many data brokers... ...already have your personal info, which is so identifiable that you'd likely wonder how it's even legal for them to sell it like it's candy. If someone wanted to, they could buy my info from one of the thousands of brokers, and find out every house I ever lived at (Along with every fibre of my travel history), nearly everything I've ever bought, what websites I browse, literally everything. No amount of using Linux or blocking ads will change that your info is already out there. |
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. π But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people. |
| With an anonymous account that I have like on mal I obviously don't like to over share but it not because of paranoia. There just no reason to share certain information on a site like this made for anime. Besides it better to stay anonymous on sites where everyone else is anonymous as well. Daviljoe193 said: Lol they're going to have a fun time actually trying to do something with my data.Might as well chip in this, too. Fun fact, data brokers already have all your personal data, and are legally selling it. As it's being sold legally, random people can buy this info legally, and use it to dox nearly everybody whom they want to, if the motivation is there. Obviously using this legally obtained info for illegal purposes is, duh, fucking illegal, but something being illegal doesn't stop people from doing it anyway. This is how a lot of doxxing occurs, because the means to get the data is basically legal. You can opt out of this, making it legally mandatory for the data broker to delete any data they have on you, but good luck opting out of every single data broker without a fancy service that may still miss some. |
| -Login to mal -Looks at notifications -Three messages deleted "Oh no" |
| more like it's better to hide your tracks because they are going to censor everything. if you watch something but the money isn't going to them then high chance it's gonna get taken down. |
Reply to Daviljoe193
@DesuMaiden I said it before, and I'll say it again. One of the many data brokers...
...already have your personal info, which is so identifiable that you'd likely wonder how it's even legal for them to sell it like it's candy. If someone wanted to, they could buy my info from one of the thousands of brokers, and find out every house I ever lived at (Along with every fibre of my travel history), nearly everything I've ever bought, what websites I browse, literally everything. No amount of using Linux or blocking ads will change that your info is already out there.
...already have your personal info, which is so identifiable that you'd likely wonder how it's even legal for them to sell it like it's candy. If someone wanted to, they could buy my info from one of the thousands of brokers, and find out every house I ever lived at (Along with every fibre of my travel history), nearly everything I've ever bought, what websites I browse, literally everything. No amount of using Linux or blocking ads will change that your info is already out there.
| @Daviljoe193 It doesn't mean much if the data isn't aggregated properly. I get some of the dumbest ads imaginable on Youtube. That'll probably change with AI and quantum computing though. Then it'll get scary. |
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| Don't worry. I am fairly certain none of us here are actually wanted by the FBI or some other law enforcement agencies lol. I am fairly certain that the cops aren't interested in any of us here lol. |
Reply to DesuMaiden
Don't worry. I am fairly certain none of us here are actually wanted by the FBI or some other law enforcement agencies lol. I am fairly certain that the cops aren't interested in any of us here lol.
| @DesuMaiden That's easy for you to say. You use Linux! The rest of us knuckle dragging Windows users have to contend with the NSA snooping through all our pirated anime. Windows was supposed to make computing easy. Now I have to go to court >_< |
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| You think I give one fuck if someone finds me. I'm not scared of you. Come at me, see what happens. You really think I'm going to be 'scared' on the internet. That I won't show my face because I'm a wimpy otaku? I've had stalkers for years come at me I would love to see you try. I'm not going to safeguard my information like it's some top secret thing. That's so lame. |
| Pretty paranoid at this point. Made a fair amount of edgy jokes and don't care to be associated with that stuff anymore, especially because it's harder for me and other people to recognize humor than I thought. |
| I don't think anyone is trying to build a profile of me online tbh. |
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