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Maintaining a level of anonymity. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by werefreeatlast@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I figure this would be a good place to ask. Im not paranoid but I say a ton of stupid stuff on the Internet. It's fun having conversations with total strangers after work 😁. Anyway, I was thinking. Could I keep a level of anonymity if I just created new accounts every month for example? Is that a thing people use? Like every month you just abandon your bs account and get a completely new account on google. Google specifically since they are the assholes that keep selling our data.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't had a Google account for over a year and a half now and I stopped primarily using the one I did have in 2019 and would only log into it like once a year.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried self hosting my own email. I was successful but a little weary of how unreliable my own set up was. But also I got to see just how stupid stupid the email system is. Like it was genius stuff when it first came out but knowing what we know now there's this digital aura of just stupid. Examples:

Only big companies can host email. Due to all the attacks. That's fucking stupid.
literally anyone can intercept your email and read it if it's not encrypted. Nobody encrypts email.
your email receiving system must be on or you will miss the email.

And it just keeps getting stupider and stupider from there. And here, I'm using the word stupid in a similar context as one laughs when someone talks about using asbestos for a whole new application. If a dog could laugh at that, he would.

Anyway, so here we are, a big ass company has 15Gb worth of emails from most everyone and we can't easily stop using the system because everyone else is using it. I got me a proton account too. But it really not the direction I want to take anymore I think.

Ideally I would keep using email for work until it folds over but then personally I would find a different, safer, more modern way to communicate with others. Much like here but with the same ability of sending larger files like zip, photos etc.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I hear you on that one. I use Proton for my email, but I use my own domain, so I had to set up all these security things like DKIM, etc. So that my messages would not be marked as spam in big mail providers. Adding the proper records to the DNS was a bit of a pain, but other than that it went pretty well.