+1 for addy.io!
I use it with a domain I bought just for emails. So for example I’ll use icelandair@mydomain.com for my Icelandair account and addy.io forwards all the emails addressed to my aliases to my Posteo email address. Nobody ever sees my Posteo address (great for security) and thanks to addy.io I can switch email providers in minutes. If addy.io ever stops working then I own the domain where all my emails are headed, so I can change a few settings to keep receiving them.
Privacy while shopping in person is literally impossible these days, so I don’t even try there.
I know I’m recorded dozens if not hundreds of times by cameras and other devices every time I leave home. Apartment building security cams, neighbors’ doorbell cams, public transit cams, police surveillance cams, dashcams, retail cams. There are thousands of automated license plate readers in my state. My car has four cams and sends all sorts of data back to the manufacturer. My apartment front door is electronic and it logs all locks & unlocks. My building’s parking garage logs every time I enter and exit. Virtually every intersection has surveillance cams (not just red light cams). Hell even when hiking you’ll end up on trail cams.
Last month police in my metro used outdoor surveillance cams to falsely accuse a woman of package theft and the cop that visited her home told her, “You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing."
Your best bet for privacy while shopping is if you walk everywhere, pay with cash and wear a mask. And even if you do all that, gait-recognition technology will be widespread in the very near future and you’ll be identifiable in public even while wearing a mask.
I forgot my wallet the other day and only realized it when it was time to pay for my grocery purchase.
My state’s driver license app works flawlessly, but I can’t get any of these crappy wallet apps to work with Android on my S22 Ultra due to unresolvable errors with each of them. Hopefully PayPal can finally give us both a working wallet app.
Same, I was a DDG user for years and switched to Qwant a month ago. Qwant results are a step up from DDG, and Qwant takes the same approach to privacy as DDG but it’s based in France so it wins in that regard as well. I’m in the US and Qwant still does a great job of providing localized results.
Salmiak is not popular worldwide. I love salmiak, but almost no one I mention it to is familiar with it.
I worked at a food bank a couple years ago and we regularly received pallets of government cheese through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). They were massive blocks of orange cheddar with almost no text on the label. We also received pallets of government pistachios and dried cherries that were as good as any you’d buy in a store.
You would hate living in my apartment – there are at least seven doorbell cameras on my floor, and more cameras in the elevators and parking garage.
I understand your privacy concerns but I don’t do anything to conceal myself around doorbell cameras. I know I’m recorded by dozens of cameras and other devices every time I leave home. Trying to conceal my face would make me stand out more and might look suspicious to my neighbors. So it’s better to be boring and not give the neighbors anything interesting to look at. Those cameras are here to stay and soon almost every home will have them.