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7 votes
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What cool online services should I sign up for while I have a burner phone?
I have a burner phone for the next month. (Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.) Are there any cool services I should try...
I have a burner phone for the next month.
(Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.)
Are there any cool services I should try out that maybe require a phone number to sign up?
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Hide nothing
11 votes -
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
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She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed.
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Minitel: France’s alternate Internet that survived until 2012
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A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate
9 votes -
A stupendously wonderful interview with one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye
5 votes -
Is the long-extinct social network Orkut on the verge of a comeback?
5 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
12 votes -
Move fast and break things
6 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
15 votes -
Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
12 votes -
These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
6 votes -
IRS will soon require selfies for online access
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Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
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How the SOPA blackout happened
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China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
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Minitel: The online world France built before the web
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I think Keyword Research doesn't work at all. Prove me otherwise!
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money. However,...
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money.
However, you can discard all their claims using a similar logic that you use to discard the claims of Astrologers, Voodooists, Stock Experts who "recommend" stocks, etc:
- If an Astrologer knows the future of everyone, wouldn't they profit massively from it themselves using the information rather than telling the trick to everyone else (just for a pittance)?
- If a Stock Expert knew that a stock's price will go up (and how much), won't they invest thousands and make millions themselves instead of giving those "tips" to "subscribers" and again, earn only a pittance?
- If SEO and Search Marketing companies knew exactly which keywords can rank your blog or site in the Google Search Engine, won't they write articles on those topics/keywords themselves and profit massively with the page views instead of revealing that secret to you for merely a few cents!
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If I fits, I sits: Starlink's self-heating internet satellite dishes are attracting cats
10 votes -
2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech
10 votes -
The art of the pause: Is anything on the internet real?
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Internet literacy atrophy
4 votes -
High readability Wikipedia
9 votes -
LastPass is going to become an independent company
16 votes -
China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out.
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VPN testing reveals poor privacy and security practices, hyperbolic claims
20 votes -
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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Notes on Web3 for the "cautiously curious"
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How to scrub your online footprint?
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and...
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and I've asked the authors to delete them. They've been kind enough to do it.
But I feel like there's more that I need to do. I just realized that there are probably a lot of screenshots of YouTube comments and Tweets that I've put out there in the world with my name and face. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't drastically increase my footprint last year during my time on Twitter.
I'm not a techy person, I was thinking about asking or hiring some type of hacker or expert to help me. Because they could probably find more information about me than me.
Can anyone help?
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Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent.
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The dark side of .io: How the UK is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal
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32 bit real estate
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Does the Internet feel American centric to you?
Maybe it's because I only interact with the side of the Internet that uses English.
29 votes -
Hampster Economics - Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy
3 votes -
Why Section 230 'reform' effectively means Section 230 repeal
7 votes -
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
11 votes -
Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
46 votes -
Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
26 votes -
You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
11 votes -
Netflix intensifies ‘VPN ban’ and targets residential IP-addresses too
28 votes -
Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday - On 6 Aug 1991, Tim Berners-Lee published the first page, and changed the world
11 votes -
California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature
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Why have web pages dropped the www?
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet. So my question is: why there is a trend of...
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet.
So my question is: why there is a trend of removing the www of every web address? why it was standard in the first place and not now?
There are a handful of popular web pages that don't use a triple w in their link and they have replaced it or removed it. Tildes, for example, doesn't need triple w. Why?
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New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
6 votes