Starlink, we love you. You’re a tech company - not having MFA is bad, like worse than Meta bad, like Myspace bad. Please get some MFA going, security is journey lets start now. Come on, Satelite Internet that is freaking awesome but no MFA is so dialup. -EDIT - MFA for account login - clarity.

Found Their MySpace page from 2009 using Time Machine With Lil B in members but I didn’t found anything more than it, links on this site don’t work so I can’t see any photos and videos. They have Youtube channel with music but it’s abandoned
There’s original MySpace link and archived one
https://preview.redd.it/pno8z8prdaoc1.jpg?width=2387&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b91cb832e48dfa507a5b95eada95d30ca585c658

I recently went on a crusade to clean up my old accounts and strengthen my passwords. New year, new me sort of stuff. This got me thinking about digital footprint a lot. I’m sure this sub is the best place to share what I dug out and to hear tips from you guys.
What is a digital footprint?
From what I gathered, a digital footprint is like the breadcrumbs you leave after using the internet. The websites you checked out, the emails you’ve sent, images you posted on social media, any details you filled in online - any activity online makes up your digital footprint.
Reasons why this matters:

1. Most employers, tinder dates, even people buying a concert ticket from you usually google you. You might want to appear your best version.
2. Companies collect your data, and the more consistent the picture they have, the more they advertise their products to you.
3. Scammers can use your data for e.g. phishing
4. Privacy. Though it became as extinct as dinosaurs, in my opinion, one should have a right to privacy.

How to check your digital footprint?
Google, haveibeenpwned, and people finder sites should get you going.
How to delete digital footprint?
People search sites and data brokers databases. You can use a data removal service to delete your profiles on whitepages or other people finder sites on your behalf. The advantage is that it also removes your data from data brokers databases. This comparison table created by a redditor was helpful for me in understanding it all better. I personally use incogni at the moment.
People search sites also have an option to opt out, and this long github list is helpful in doing so.
Social media. The safest thing would be to eliminate social media accounts entirely. But I didn’t want to vanish from the planet Earth. Instead, I removed my old photos, tags, posts and messages from IG, Twitter, Linkedin. Also, contacts that I don’t personally know or talk to often. I also wiped all the mentions of where I live, significant events, and made my IG private.
Google search results. I used Google’s “Results about you” tool to remove those search inquiries that I didn’t want to be visible. Here is a post explaining quite well how to use it.
Old accounts. This one was a true hassle and even required finding my old computers at my mom’s house. Luckily, there was an excel file with all my old logins which helped me to delete unused Skype, Myspace, Pandora music, Yahoo or other accounts from the ancient past. Also deleted the excel file as well for better privacy.
How to protect your digital footprint?
After cleanup, it’s important to reduce the breadcrumbs you leave behind, I’ve read.

• Create email aliases for online shopping, non-important websites and stuff that want to collect your data.
• Use separate browsers for different things. If possible, use privacy-first browsers and use incognito mode.
• Separate work and personal devices, accounts.
• Double-check your privacy settings on apps, browsers, social media and make them more strict.
• Use virtual private networks (VPN) to stop web browsers from accessing your IP address and other data.
• Reject cookies on websites.
• Unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters.
• Never log in with Facebook to other websites, apps.

Few more tips on safety in general: password protect your devices, especially phone and personal computer; Use strong passwords that differ on each site; Set up a 2FA; Avoid visiting unsafe websites or clicking on suspicious links; Keep software up to date.
These are just a portion of tips, because to achieve true security is tough. Share your tips.

I recently went on a crusade to clean up my old accounts and strengthen my passwords. New year, new me sort of stuff. This got me thinking about digital footprint a lot. I’m sure this sub is the best place to share what I dug out and to hear tips from you guys.
What is a digital footprint?
From what I gathered, a digital footprint is like the breadcrumbs you leave after using the internet. The websites you checked out, the emails you’ve sent, images you posted on social media, any details you filled in online - any activity online makes up your digital footprint.
Reasons why this matters:

1. Most employers, tinder dates, even people buying a concert ticket from you usually google you. You might want to appear your best version.
2. Companies collect your data, and the more consistent the picture they have, the more they advertise their products to you.
3. Scammers can use your data for e.g. phishing
4. Privacy. Though it became as extinct as dinosaurs, in my opinion, one should have a right to privacy.

How to check your digital footprint?
Google, haveibeenpwned, and people finder sites should get you going.
How to delete digital footprint?
People search sites and data brokers databases. You can use a data removal service to delete your profiles on whitepages or other people finder sites on your behalf. The advantage is that it also removes your data from data brokers databases. This comparison table created by a redditor was helpful for me in understanding it all better. I personally use incogni at the moment.
People search sites also have an option to opt out, and this long github list is helpful in doing so.
Social media. The safest thing would be to eliminate social media accounts entirely. But I didn’t want to vanish from the planet Earth. Instead, I removed my old photos, tags, posts and messages from IG, Twitter, Linkedin. Also, contacts that I don’t personally know or talk to often. I also wiped all the mentions of where I live, significant events, and made my IG private.
Google search results. I used Google’s “Results about you” tool to remove those search inquiries that I didn’t want to be visible. Here is a post explaining quite well how to use it.
Old accounts. This one was a true hassle and even required finding my old computers at my mom’s house. Luckily, there was an excel file with all my old logins which helped me to delete unused Skype, Myspace, Pandora music, Yahoo or other accounts from the ancient past. Also deleted the excel file as well for better privacy.
How to protect your digital footprint?
After cleanup, it’s important to reduce the breadcrumbs you leave behind, I’ve read.

• Create email aliases for online shopping, non-important websites and stuff that want to collect your data.
• Use separate browsers for different things. If possible, use privacy-first browsers and use incognito mode.
• Separate work and personal devices, accounts.
• Double-check your privacy settings on apps, browsers, social media and make them more strict.
• Use virtual private networks (VPN) to stop web browsers from accessing your IP address and other data.
• Reject cookies on websites.
• Unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters.
• Never log in with Facebook to other websites, apps.

Few more tips on safety in general: password protect your devices, especially phone and personal computer; Use strong passwords that differ on each site; Set up a 2FA; Avoid visiting unsafe websites or clicking on suspicious links; Delete unused apps from your phone; Keep software up to date.
EDIT: one Reddit user forwarded me this great tip.
Whenever you are asked to fill in your payment details, let’s say when shopping online, add company’s name next to your surname e.g. John Doe Amazon. This way whenever you’ll receive deals, “we miss you” messages, and holiday promotions, you’ll only need to check what name they used to address you. Then call both companies and ask to opt out from their databases.
These are just a portion of tips, because to achieve true security is tough. Share your tips.

Ima li na ovom threadu nekoga ko je ranih dvehiljaditih išao na taj chat?
Ja se sećam da sam tamo išao kad god se vratim iz škole. Čudan je to trip bio, tek dobili internet ( adsl 256 kb/s), youtube tek počeo da postoji, prvi veliki brat (ena marku svrši), myspace itd… I baš se sećam da je grdilo ljudi umelo da bude na chatu i nije postojao mod ni admin. Tu sam se dopisivao sa raznima i čak redovno bio u kontaktu sa nekim ljudima mesecima. Zapravo i dalje posedujem login za xat.com i imam neke nickove. Vidim da i sad to postoji al klinci danas imaju hiljadu drugih pizdarija da im otimaju pažnju.
Ako ste tamo išli obavezno iskomentarišite i svoj nick, možda ste mi u prijateljima 😅

I was recently stalked online by a guy I briefly texted with on Tinder. I told him to leave me alone, blocked his messages on all apps and phone. Thank god he was not aggressive or anything. But this got me worried and I went on a crusade to delete all my details from the internet.
I’m sharing this here, because I want to hear tips, if I did everything or is there something more to add.
1. Wipe my personal info from people finder sites. Once I googled myself, I found quite a few people search site profiles with my phone number, email, several addresses. Whitepages even had my brother's name.
I opted out of a few of them by myself. But the idea that maybe I missed some site kept bugging me. I wanted a more professional scan. So, I got into reading about personal information removal services, and I've found a rather positive Incogni review and I'm glad I got it. It showed me there are more sites that have my data. And it also opted out of them on my behalf.
2. Clean up social media accounts. I’ve read that the safest thing would be to eliminate social media accounts entirely. But I didn’t want to vanish from the planet Earth. I want to continue exchanging reels with my friends and so on.
Instead, I removed my old photos, tags, posts and messages from IG, Twitter, Linkedin. Also, contacts that I don’t personally know or talk to often. I also wiped all the mentions of where I live, significant events or dates of my life. I took it a bit further and even got rid of all the photos and tags from IG of cafes, restaurants and shops I visit often. Then I made my IG private, and limited who can see my Facebook posts and profile.
3. Clean up what google search shows about you. I used Google’s “Results about you” tool to remove those search inquiries that I didn’t want to be visible. Here is a post explaining quite well how to use it.
4. Deactivate old accounts. From a privacy standpoint, it’s a good idea to delete unused Skype, Myspace, Pokemon Go or other accounts because some of those have your email and details.
5. Use strong passwords. I was already doing that, but I saw this tip quite often. People share that theoretically if your email is easily found on Whitepages and your password is 12345, someone could easily hack into e.g. your airlines account where your credit card and all details are stored. Passwords should be strong and differ on different accounts.
What I also read here on Reddit is that once you clean up, it’s a good idea to keep things tidy. Meaning, everyone should have 2 or more email aliases, and dedicate each for official business, online shopping, for new logins, accounts, etc. This helps you avoid spam, scam attacks and tracking.
Do you have a tip to add? Please share.

First off - obligatory English isn’t my first language!
TLDR: I was once hired to make a basic website for clients, they didn’t pay me, so I posted that they stiffed their developer on their LIVE website that they linked to on their social pages?? That was weird. Was asked if I could give them the login creds about a year ago and I said no. Only found out today that they asked for the login because a screenshot of the page was posted on Reddit, people found out and they’ve been spamming on their now defunct socials to pay back their dev. (Spoiler: they never did)
I recently came across a reddit post with a screenshot of a website I built 3 years ago that called out the owners who didn’t pay up when a friend asked me today what happened to that website so I looked for it on Google and lo and behold, that post popped up and I was like, hey that’s me. So I figured I may as well tell my story, which would answer some questions on the post.
To start with, no I’m not an actual developer, I’m a digital marketer by trade. Everything I learned about coding, I learned through Myspace, Livejournal and Tumblr (age reveal!). So all the developers coming at me for using Wordpress, calm tf down it’s not supposed to be a super cool website. Ok, on with the story.
So back in 2020 at the height of c-vid, one of my best friends reached out to me asking if I could help her cousin and her cousin’s business partner build a website for their clinic. It was supposed to be a simple brochure site and very straight to the point. It just needed a list of their services and a contact us form. At that time I was freelancing and have done some frontend work mostly for SEO and email marketing so I said I could do it BUT subject to limitations. By limitations, it was understood that I was only going to do templated sh*t because I am by no means an actual web developer and I was only doing it to learn more about WP (been wanting to create my own web portfolio) and help out my friend because her cousin had almost no budget for it. And by no budget, I mean they were only willing to pay 10k PHP (equivalent to 180 USD) so they couldn’t afford an actual web developer. We laid out the terms of what I was able to do and they accepted it.
So we get started. I get all the images, logo, color palette, etc from the clients and an overall idea of how the site was supposed to be. They approved the mockup (I’m better in Photoshop than WP), sent money for the domain + hosting, and I went ahead and built the site. A few meetings later, the business partner’s husband suddenly comes into the picture and very condescendingly starts saying that this isn’t good, it’s very basic and he showed us Apple’s website and says he wants the clinic’s website to look like that. And he says all this like he knows so much about building websites. Like ok, if you can build a website just go ahead and do it yourself? So I talk to my friend in private and told her:

1. you can’t compare a simple brochure website to Apple. Apple has an unlimited budget. They’re one of the biggest global companies in the world, meanwhile they had a measly budget of $180. Ridiculous.
2. we previously agreed it would only be a templated site, nothing fancy
3. the mockup was already approved and now we’re moving to a completely different direction. We agreed to revisions to the project, not a complete overhaul.
4. if they wanted something like an Apple website, we’d need to hire actual web developers and up the budget
5. also from a marketing perspective, a tech website like Apple just doesn’t suit a clinic??

My friend completely understood and was with me on this one and discussed it with her cousin. Weeks go by and my friend comes back to me, completely embarrassed and apologetic, saying that they won’t go through with the website, will find someone else to do it and that they’re refusing to pay me despite already going through several revisions before the husband even came in. I didn’t mind so much since I did learn a few things from the whole experience and it filled up my days in the midst of lockdown restrictions, but I did feel bad for my friend who probably didn’t have the best time having that convo with her cousin and then delivering the message to me, plus the husband was so obnoxious, I decided to delete the pages and put up a single page saying they won’t pay their web developer. (To the people on the reddit post saying it wasn’t made by a real developer and I shouldn’t have used the term web developer, I’m sorry but I was pissed and that was the most concise way I could phrase it. I wasn’t going to write “the owners of this clinic won’t pay the person they contracted to build their site” just to please the pedantics.)
I said it was ok, left the website at that without telling my friend, and forgot about it. I didn’t expect it would blow up. A year or so goes by, I have moved away from my home country at this point and my friend reaches out and asks if I can give them the login details to their website. *insert maniacal cackle here*
I said no, apologized to my friend as she’s put in a tight spot yet again, and then checked on the website. There have been attempts to login, so I changed the password. My friend then asks if I can take down the post on the site instead. I figured I’ve been petty enough for a long time, so I did (that’s why it changed to Hello World, that was me being nice, not them trying to figure things out themselves. I didn’t give them the opportunity to.) I didn’t know that someone posted a screenshot of it on reddit and they were probably responding to hate comments on their socials, I’m just now learning about all of this lol
It’s now been 3 years and the domain has since expired. I was actually contemplating renewing the domain just to be extra petty, but they don’t deserve my time or money. I looked them up on Google maps today to see if they’re still operating and the 1 star reviews were hilarious. To answer the questions there - no, I still haven’t been paid!
And to the comments I’ve read on the original post:
SSL - they barely had enough money for a domain name, let alone security like Cloudflare. I intentionally left this out during production and was supposed to add it once they had enough budget for it.
Legality - there was no binding contract, it was just a list of terms that we agreed on. And this was in the Philippines. We’re not a stickler for laws, not that we have any laws on it. I think.
Edit: formatting