Once again, I would like to you remind you all of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SINGLE SITE ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CAN. Fake names. Fake birthdays. Fake pet names. Fake first schools and mother's maiden names and favourite foods and... just... everything. - ThreadSky

dethveggie.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Once again, I would like to you remind you all of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet:
LIE TO EVERY SINGLE SITE ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CAN.

Fake names. Fake birthdays. Fake pet names. Fake first schools and mother's maiden names and favourite foods and... just... everything.

Reposted from Alistair Kitchen

If you are deleting social media ~48 before your flight to the US, *it is already too late.*

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acthpa.bsky.social•6 days ago

I make sure the age I provide is legal... been celebrating various ages throughout the year, it's mildly entertaining. A password manager is good for questions/answers, etc. I was born in the trenches a couple of times, my mom has over 40 maiden names (she finds that funny). Bullshit all the way. <3

elgofo.fr•6 days ago

And last resort : lie about your socials.
Customs ask for your twatter or fb handle ? You don’t have one.
(Which might be true tho, mine have been decom’d for a while now)

dethveggie.bsky.social•6 days ago

You can't always lie to sites... there are some situations where you need to provide legitimate information to access a necessary service. However, what you can do is bury those nuggets of truth in a mountain of bullshit.

marypcbuk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Make the whole haystack needles

bjkeefe.bsky.social•6 days ago

One of the things I've been doing since forever is giving a slightly wrong birthday. I don't mind a site knowing how old I am, to the year. I get that selling ads pays for the free content I enjoy. But they don't need to know the exact day. Fun to watch how a given day propagates, too. ;)

dethveggie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, I have no interest at all in helping sites make money off me at all, either by ads or selling my actual information. I block every ad I can, and provide only the fakest of personal data I can get away with.

bjkeefe.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have always felt comfortable with sites making some money off of me. Yes, there are limits, and yes, all too often, companies exceed these limits, but I believe in the notion that what I am enjoying about a given site has to be paid for, one way or another. Writers gotta eat, too.

grunionshaftoe.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's an awful thing to do, Mr Montgomery T Swizzlestick! I hope you and your dog, Mongo Barfo, and your partner, Gilhoolian Q Punchbrains forget all your passwords.

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