What online safety tips do you have to share? (lazysoci.al)

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Online danger can take many forms, from men tearing apart your comments on social media to harassment and doxing. How do you keep safe?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A big one IMO: Scramble/remove EXIF data on any photos you upload online: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif/

If you don't and a photo was taken with location enabled, that photo has a location attached to it accurate down to a few feet in some cases. It also contains data on which direction you were facing.

Some others:

Don't mention where you live (other than country), or obvious identifiers like a unique store you visit that only exists in 1 or a few locations.
Avoid faces in photos uploaded on the internet, unless you have a good reason like you're a public figure or something like that where people are going to see your face in media or news.
Backgrounds in photos can sometimes be highly accurate for finding a location, so for photos you upload keep that in mind.
Even photos uploaded to 'private' cloud storage can become public due to security leaks, improper passwords, or plain old getting phished and user error. Encrypt before upload if it needs to stay private.
Use a password manager! Having a 100% unique and random password for every service is the best way to keep yourself safe from password leaks, re-using passwords is incredibly dangerous. If you don't feel comfortable with online PW managers, Keepass is 100% offline.

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