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@LonM said in 5 ways to protect personal information online:
For 1. If you're asked to make a security question (First pet, Place of birth, School Name) you don't have to answer these honestly - it's just another password. You can put any random stuff in there you want as long as you (or your password manager) can remember it later.
This is a fantastic point! It didn't occur to me for ages that I could do this!
It also makes answering so much easier, e.g. "Who is your favourite musician?" may have changed since you signed up for the service. Even if it hasn't changed, imagine you're a Gothic child of the 80s... : did you put "The Sisters of Mercy", "Sisters of Mercy, The", or "Sisters of Mercy" etc.?
For 2. Keep an eye on old accounts. You never know if a company might be sold to or bought up by someone else in the future. If you don't use them anymore and they have your personal data, delete your account.
I started a purge on this a while back... There are so many accounts I'd forgotten about completely, and I always thought I was really careful! Most people will have far more of these than me.
For 5. YouTube works perfectly fine with cookies disabled. It breaks commenting and recommendations, but then again, you might be better off without those
invidio.us will be very interesting to those who can't find the video they're after outside YouTube. I always check other video services first before I resort to Youtube - and even then, I only ever interact with it via an Invidio instance. Similarly, those who use Twitter might want to look at Nitter, which does a similar thing but for Twitter.
