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“Privacy Warnings” of one type or another have been making the rounds on Facebook ever since the site first came into existence.
While most of those warnings range from completely worthless to downright malicious, a few of them actually have some merit.
Privacy is indeed a serious concern on Facebook, but many folks understandably attempt to attack the problem from the wrong angle.
Truth be told, modern home computers are generally pretty reliable.
In fact, most of the laptops and desktop computers that are sold today will still be working fine when software advances eventually make their hardware components obsolete.
But that being said, some machines will inevitably end up needing some type of covered repair before the warranty expires.
And guess what? Yours could well be one of them.
I recently wrote this post explaining how to view all the passwords that Google has stored from your Chrome browser and Android mobile devices.
That post ended up receiving a lot of attention and several folks asked questions about it.
Several folks asked if there’s a way to print out the passwords that are stored in their Google accounts.
It’s no secret that Microsoft wants every Windows 11 user to sign into their PC with a Microsoft account.
In fact, they have even designed Windows 11 in a way that prevents a few of its most useful features from even working if you’re signed in with a local account.
But guess what? I don’t really like the idea of signing in to my computer with an Internet-based account, for two reasons: [Read more…]
As you probably know, Facebook asks for some pretty sensitive information when someone signs up for an account.
For example, among other things they request our address, phone number and birthdate.
Many folks just go ahead and enter whatever info Facebook asks for without giving it a second thought, and then they make that info viewable by all of their Facebook friends.
Even worse, lots of other folks make their personal info viewable by the general public (i.e. billions of complete strangers)!
That, in my opinion, is a very bad mistake. [Read more…]