I do pay for the additional email features.

I came to strongly distrust Google, because Google scans your email and uses it to build a profile on you so they can know everything about you.

It gives them a lot of power, and they sell that information to others for marketing, but it’s particularly dangerous in the current environment.

Proton is worth the cost.

I use Proton, and they own SimpleLogin, which generates email aliases.

SimpleLogin email aliases point to your email address, and if you respond to any emails sent through simplelogin, it replaces the “from” field on your outgoing email with the address you used as an alias.

The simplelogin browser plugin tags all of your aliases with the domain of the site you’re currently on(so if you go go lemmy.world and click on the “sign up” link, once you’re on the sign up page, you click the simplelogin browser extension, and it will generate an alias to use for signing up for lemmy.world and will tag it “for lemmy.world”, so you know where you used that alias). So the moment you start getting spam to any simplelogin email alias, you just go and disable the alias, and you know EXACTLY who gave your email address to a spammer.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with how VPNs work, but it’s basically like a computer in the other country is sharing its internet connection with you.

So let’s imagine that things are reversed, and you’re a VPN provider in the United States and you’re sharing your internet connection with some computers in another country, like Saudi Arabia, for example.

And just to be clear, you conduct no business in Saudi Arabia. You’re just sharing your internet connection with people from there. You don’t have any associates in Saudi Arabia, and you have no intention of ever going to Saudi Arabia.

And let’s say that Saudi Arabia passed a law that said VPN providers had to block some kind of content, like maybe banning all access to content about your favorite band.

How is this going to affect the VPN service you provide to the other computers?

Loops

I wish every content creator would post on both TikTok AND Loops, because Loops could definitely replace TikTok. It has a really solid basis and a lot of potential(although I wish I didn’t have to pause before scrolling off of a video).

I am really glad to see someone mention Loops, and if I could choose to view someone’s content on Loops instead of TikTok, I would.

Edit: Oh, and https://loops.video/ if anyone is wondering what we’re talking about.

Cool story bro.

If a turkey ever tells me how to cook it, I’m not going to cook it.

No it’s not.

I stopped using Facebook years ago.

Before there were viable alternatives.

The idea that you need Facebook because there aren’t significant alternatives is just not true.

1. STOP.

2. USING.

3. FACEBOOK.