Remember that no one knows where you are.

Or who you are if it comes to that.

Online, people only know what you tell them, and most of what they tell you is lies.

I’ll get back to that, but for now, here’s proof that they don’t know where you are.

Logging into an old FB account today, I was met with “Incorrect password. Your password was changed 3 months ago.”

Not by me, it wasn’t, so I went down the “Change Your Password” route.

In my inbox, I got a notification that my password had been changed, and Meta correctly advised me that I was in Adelaide.

I received another email from Meta, with the same timestamp, informing me that someone had logged in from Darwin.

If it wasn’t me, I was asked to let them know.

How can they simultaneously get my location right, and 3,000 km away?

I know that Adelaide and Darwin are in the same time zone, but they are not on the same Longitude or Latitude.

Do these companies know where you are?

Maybe, maybe not, who can tell?

If you use a VPN, it’s even less likely that they’ll have a clue.

If you want to use a VPN but don’t want to pay for one, use the Opera web browser, it has one built in that’s free.

Anyway, enough about where you are, what about who you are?

As I said, the Internet only knows what you tell it.

That’s why I never use Google or Apple to log in to any site.

Always and only email.

Often a fake email as well.

Fastmail allows you to generate as many fake email addresses as you like, and they’ll be redirected to your selected email address.

Any site that won’t let me use an email address I don’t use.

It’s 1984 , and it’s not just the Government watching you; it’s also big Tech.

Regards,
Brent.

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