Well, a random creep messaged me on reddit, after a few messages exchanged he said he looked up my private profile on google and read through my posts. Outside of how angry I was at him for doing that, it surprised me that google does this, It even gave an AI OVERVIEW of who I am on reddit, (I have posted my age and country on reddit, and a few other things ofc, but the others describe what im into and what I do on reddit, not tied to any personal info, so its just my age and country really) But what the fuck google? I know you can look up people in places like ghostddit, so I wasn’t expecting my profile to be 100% private either, but it’s crazy you can find it straight on google. I guess its slowly coming to a point than ANYTHING you do online is gonna visible for EVERYONE. Yes we were already being surveilled, but this and then the discord thing with messages from servers showing up on google too? I’m pissed off man. (I know lemmy is not private either, but I don’t have a google account tied to here, the one email I used to register didn’t ask me for phone verification so its not as bad to hang out here, might look into matrix later)

  • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 hours ago
    • Never use identifiable information, or photos of yourself on social media
    • Use a different email address for each platform
    • Use a different username for each platform
    • Don’t ever cross the streams
    • Delete accounts, and start again every so often
    • Shouldn’t have to do any of the above, but…
    • SlayersFan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Thanks, I do this already pretty much, but I think I gotta stop using gmail that much and switch to a different email provider, any recommendations outside of proton?

      • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        I would stop using gmail altogether, it has only taken me 10 years to convince my girlfriend to do that.

        I’m no expert, so take these with a grain of salt, but I am using zoho, tuta, aster, secria, and murena

        You probably don’t have to be too fussy if some of them are only used to sign up to 1 social media platform each.

        • SlayersFan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          16 hours ago

          if they don’t have phone verification or anything like that i can just make a bunch of them and keep them in a lil notebook under the desk lol, no one’s hacking into that

          • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            16 hours ago

            Zoho probably has phone verification, I have had that one for the longest. The rest are most likely phone free, that would have been a part of the reason why I picked them.