@Averly thing is I do find twitter useful. Mastodon is awesome and I hope it never gains the traction of twitter. It's a more intelligent space. Twitters good for general local news alerts.

@twistedonion I can agree with that 😊

@VictorXLR tell me about it, spent all day in analytics for client websites. Shocking how much info gets gathered.

@twistedonion opened my laptop cookies in sublime text. They had everything on me.even clearing history doesn't work i immediately got a VPN and i removed chrome

@VictorXLR it really is getting so invasive. VPN is def the route I'm considering going down at home. Any recommendations?

@twistedonion I stopped using my picture in any social network when i realized that you can now google search a picture. too many things involved and i dont want anyone knowing my details from a google search

Anyway i use Private internet access. i mostly use it for streaming Netflix to get American TV shows. they are really cheap but eventually its a risk cus we dont know who is running it.

with time u get used to it, just clear your cookies regularly and be careful online

@VictorXLR

thx. It's a fine balance isn't it. Dark times ahead on and offline unfortunately.

I will end up dropping my profile pic, did the same thing on twitter. Use it at the start as an identifier for the people I start to follow then drop it after a bit. It's a nice space here right now. Getting all nostalgic, but like everything good it won't last.

@noiseofstudio yes it's awesome, I love it. Chrome is going in the trash!

@twistedonion I'd say a blackhole DNS is a more thorough solution, though it breaks some sites (e.g. wait for ads timeout on YouTube before video starts playing

@noiseofstudio thanks for that, this is something I've never heard of, some reading required!