@alice These posts all remind me of a 20 year old Canadian novelty song.

"You see now Wal-Mart thinks I'm 75 year old pensioner
And Sony thinks I'm a single mother of 10
The airline company thinks I make 700-grand a year
And Visa thinks I'm an Inuit woman named Ben"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIUOUfhoJ8

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

@mastodonmigration

while we still can

https://vote.gov/register

#Register to vote

Voter registration deadlines vary by state and territory. Once you register, you can vote in national, state, and local elections.

People are already reporting inappropriate de-registration, so
CHECK YOU ARE REGISTERED REGULARLY,
THEN EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC DUTY AND ACTUALLY VOTE!