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Red, White, and Blueland in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not your friend, guy!

Forced to use Facebook to interact with local groups and businesses. How do I keep my data safe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pro tips, ty! I was hoping for something mobile friendly but this will definitely help!

Forced to use Facebook to interact with local groups and businesses. How do I keep my data safe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe safe is the wrong word in my post. I mean keeping the data safe from meta in the respect that I don't want them to have it. Their record in data privacy is not so great so I'm keen to keep my data away from Meta if I can.

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Forced to use Facebook to interact with local groups and businesses. How do I keep my data safe? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a big advocate for data privacy and I left Facebook many years ago without feeling the need to go back. However, there's several local groups and a couple of local businesses that specifically communicate via Facebook that I'd like to interact with.

This presents a problem - I have to use the platform to interact with these people but I don't want to use the platform. So how do I keep my data safe from Zucks greedy hands? So far I'm thinking:

use a throwaway email or email that is specifically for fb
only access via Firefox inprivate browser and use addons to clean cookies after every session
utilise ad blockers in said browser
set fb privacy settings accordingly to opt out of ad personalisation, othrr site fb logins etc
potentially only access via VPN but that might be cumbersome
maybe do all of this via android work profile but not sure if that's much benefit

Anything else I can do to remain reasonably safe?

What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

+1 for reaper. Its free to "demo" forever with no limitations and is much closer to a traditional DAW than audacity. So many plugins and scripts to customise too, such a great tool I can never recommend it enough to anyone wanting to do anything from simple audio edits/conversions to full fat tracking and mixing sessions.