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Lol, get fucked Google
(lemmy.world)
For reasons that boggle my mind, I am required to keep a Google account for work (ties into some proprietary software the company uses)
Earlier today, I got the following -
Yes, I’m certain people under the age of 16 are known for their use of very specific EHR software that requires professional license to subscribe to in the first place. Makes perfect sense.
Anyone else get one of these “for you protection” msgs from Big evil?
It sucks, there's inherently a trade-off between anonymity and participating on the Internet. Here's my step-by-step plan to staying anonymous on the Internet:
Edit: I don't know how to format.
Man I don’t know if this is a parody but you’re inconveniencing yourself to an extreme that doesn’t make any sense especially when the EU is in negotiations to happily hand out all our biometric data to the US anyway.
I am all for privacy but let’s be honest it is a total sham nowadays. Go de-google to your hearts content, i did the same and I couldn’t be happier (you just get treated better when you’re not the product, funnily enough), just understand you’re not really protecting yourself from anything when governments can, and do, just negotiate your data behind your back anyway.
I'm not sure we disagree. :) I'm just reducing my dependency on mega corps.
Gotcha 😄👍 and that’s probably the main thing these days. We might not be able to protect our data from these corps but we can at least move our money and attention away from them.