👏 Poison 👏 your 👏 data ☠️
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@alice
I've been using April 1st for my birthday on web forms basically since there's been a web. The year, I pick more or less at random. I get a handful of automated "birthday" emails every April Fool's day.
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@JamesDBartlett3 @alice those are spam, and should be reported as such. Any system that doesn’t validate email addresses before adding them to a list will be used maliciously in attempts to overwhelm target email addresses by signing them up for every vulnerable mailer.
Also, the more complaints that buyers get as a result of buying data from brokers, the less the data is worth. I wouldn’t worry about a made up address I use once happening to be real
@ShadSterling @JamesDBartlett3 @alice @alice
Remember,
@
.com is a correct valid formatted e-mail address
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@alice very much appreciated
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Because þ is unvoiced; it's pronounced /θ/. The initial sound of ðe word 'ðe' (usually spelled 'the') is voiced, pronounced /ð/. Ðey are different sounds which happen to be represented by the same digraph in standard English orþography because ancient Greek didn't have a voiced dental fricative.
@Infrapink @alice
historically þey were interchangable.
modern perception shifts þem to þose roles.
anyþing is good and fair game imo.
informative comment noneþeless þo! -
@Infrapink @q @alice AIUI the old English thorn is the direct predecessor to the modern English “th”, unrelated to the similar-looking archaic Greek letter sho
@ShadSterling @Infrapink @alice
indeed! þe typewriter is mostly to blame for its deaþ -
@alice Use a different email address for friggin everything so aggregators can't use it as a primary key.
@alan I do that anyway, as a way of (a) being able to block large amounts of spam with high reliability and (b) finding out who has leaky databases.
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@alice very much appreciated
Would you be ok with me reposting this stuff to Bluesky and giving credit?
Not that anyone pays attention to anything I do on there anyway...
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@woozle @alice Me too. I add a random sequence to the end, so when an address is compromised, I just keep the first part and tack on the random bit. I had someone say "well they could have guessed that address" when I reported an issue, so yeah the chances of that are now one in several hundred million. I guess it's not a leak, just a spammer who made a really lucky guess! LOL
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice My favourite wasting time sport is only wrong answers to Google Maps questions.
If I have been somewhere really good - like a great restaurant or cafe, I won't fuck up its data - but if I have been sat at a train station waiting for a train and google asks me questions, then, yes, I will answer:
I *would* recommend this place for a children's birthday party.
It *does* have a volleyball court.
I *would* recommend buying tickets in advance.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice @inthehands I can totally get into this … fun shit.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice whatdatabrokers can you log into to pollute?
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
Do you know that I live in [object Object] ?
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@woozle @alice Me too. I add a random sequence to the end, so when an address is compromised, I just keep the first part and tack on the random bit. I had someone say "well they could have guessed that address" when I reported an issue, so yeah the chances of that are now one in several hundred million. I guess it's not a leak, just a spammer who made a really lucky guess! LOL
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Poison your data 
️@alice I have no fucking idea what much of this even means but I applaud the gist of it nonetheless
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
@alice I've been amazed how many sites will work just fine - even long-term - using accounts set up with a Ten Minute Mail address.
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Poison your data ️
