Myspace browsers

I found my old psp 1001 that I broke back in 2006 while playing dragon ball z game and losing to cell like 40 times. I installed the ips screen mod with higher brightness but the screen is shifted like 2-3mm upwards what could be causing this and is there a way to manual recenter the screen?
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This thing is Nostalgia at its finest last time it worked was 2006 and last time I tried to turn it on was 2008. I went to the internet browser app and looked at my saved bookmarks, the only one there was myspace. I cant wait to go throw in an old game and play it later

2004-2005 School year. The John Titor experience
The post that captures the sights, sounds, and scents of a specific academic year. This time, we examine 2004/2005 in detail on the sidelines to see what made those years special. Hold onto your seats because I will be going into great detail. It's going to be a rocky journey! Feel free to compare this to your very own experience. Brace yourself guys!
August 2004
There's a pretty dreamlike vibe to it. Upon returning from Day 1 and Day 2, I noticed an unexpected abundance of emo people. Practically everyone wears a live strong bracelet. there has been a significant drop in the number of Eminem-themed clothing items and locker posters. I still see lip smackers. People are still in Sam Goody shopping for CDs at the mall. I get a Nintendo Gamecube and could not be more happier.
September 2004
On MTV, all you hear every morning is Green Day and Ciara. There's this weird challenge where you have to snort smart candies. I'm not sure why this was a thing. I sneak into Resident Evil Apocalypse and leave early because it's a school night and it's 12:30. Many students in class have an irrational obsession with Ryan Cabrera. It's really cold outside. It seems like hoodies are in style right now on everyone. A student fights my science teacher and knocks him out with a bat. He goes flying out the door like Super Mario Bros 3. We all have to do these therapy circles to discuss what we saw and "process" it. DSL is blowing up and hardly anyone I know is using dial up anymore. Tons of MCR clone looking people walking the hallway rn.
October 2004
Big scandal at school results in the dismissal of my principle. He gets punched in the face by a pupil in front of the school assembly. The Ashlee Simpson fiasco from Saturday Night Live is constantly played. Everyone is talking exclusively about it. I sneak in to watch the Taxi movie. "TAXI" is the worst movie I've ever seen, guys. In this, Jimmy Fallon was atrocious. People beg me to add them on MySpace at random. All of a sudden, Myspace becomes extremely popular. I utilize my computer class to learn the proper way to apply HTML code. I almost get kicked out for sneaking into Shark Tale. "Talking about the CAR WASHHHHHH" Those ushers at the cinema were so clueless.
Tons of house parties start popping up in bulletins on Myspace and I start discovering what the Grey goose is very quickly. Blue camera flip phones are all the rage right now. Students taking pictures of teachers is a thing. GTA San Andreas and Halo 2 both come out. People are obsessed talking about it @ lunch every single day. Someone broke into Blockbuster video and attempted to steal a bunch of them. Tons of people in study hall talking about Dragon Ball again due to GT Shadow dragon saga kicking up. I start dating this guy that works at the strip mall and looks like Vin Diesel. They won't stop playing Maroon 5 "Will be loved" on the radio. MAKE IT STOP GUYS. Halloween party at this mansion. A bunch of streakers show up and get the whole party shut down when the neighbors are caught snooping. Bunch of people get arrested as well. My school starts adding Wifi to the building.
November 2004
We do a mock election in class. Almost everyone votes for Kerry. That Mosh song from Eminem is everyone's ring tone. Bush wins and pisses everyone off. Nintendo DS comes out. Initially I hate it. I go with my friend to Best Buy at the mall to pick one up. T-Mobile sidekick phones start blowing up. I break up with Vin Diesel guy and start dating this guy Dak from a town over. Tons of Nightmare before Christmas stuff being sold at Hot Topic now. That stupid Nelly/Tim McGraw song won't get off my TV guys...Over and over and over and over and over again. Smackdown vs Raw comes out for PS2 and we are going crazy playing it. Carson Daly is back hosting MTV TRL for the time being. I get a black Dell PC at Circuit City and it is so fast guys! Literally winged hair cuts are everywhere right now.
December 2004
Myspace is banned from the school computers. We start using proxy sites but they find out about those as well lol. Tanning salons start popping off hard. Literally 5 new tanning salons appear in my town. Everyone looking orange as hell. People in class won't shut up about Laguna Beach and One Tree Hill. I give up and end up watching it. NYE party was so insane. It was basically hosted on top of a roof top. I remember everything was Ice related. Like the stairs and floor looked like ice.
January 2005
Dak accuses me of cheating during a heated argument we have on AOL Aim, even though I was actually asleep at home. Apparently, I was set up by a jealous friend of mine who couldn't stand to watch him with someone else. My cousin invites me to WWE Raw. I end up screaming at Batista and I ask Randy Orton for his number at ringside.
February 2005
Huge Super bowl party fiasco. Rival foot ball team from a town over crashes the party. They kick down the door and start beating the crap out everyone. Police come an arrest half the people. 80s week at school. Everyone dressing like it's 1985!
March 2005
50 Cent's new album comes out and has people skipping school. I never want to hear candy shop ever again. Dudes in the hallway with Drop it like it's hot as their ring tone. I get a PSP and I am blown away. Literally PS2 graphics on a handheld. DESKTOP quality browser as well...WHAT? Yeah I kind of stop using my laptop for a bit because of this lol.
April 2005
I play a prank on everyone that I am moving and that this week will be my last day of school. Literally everyone believes it. I never hear the end of it...people were PISSED. They had all signed my backpack and everything lol.
May 2005
Hype for Star Wars Episode III is at a fever pitch. People dressing up like Darth vader to class...idiots...lol. We Belong Together by Mariah Carey is literally played on the school speaker every single morning....make it stop guys! The school secretary was a huge Mariah fan if you couldn't tell. Stupid people putting their away message on aim to "this ish is bananas". I start using MSN messenger heavily right now. You can SEND PICTURES AND DO VIDEO WHAT?
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June 2005
Tons of Batman shirts coming out of the woodwork due to Batman Begins. A kid from class falls through the roof of the school and glass shatters everywhere in my health class. On some Mission Impossible ish. He ends up getting suspended for 3 days and we all laugh about it. We do a school prank where we glue all the textbooks to the floor. My friend Camille starts singing at the dance and embarrassed herself by throwing up all over her rented dress.
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Firstly, i have searched through most of lostmyspace and cannot find the song, the terms i used were digital, girl, circuit, robot, bit, love, screen, DJ, song, chica, pop, bubblegum, and a few others and the song is nowhere to be seen, it might be on there as a mislabeled song but I'm doubtful, the song doesn't seem to be saifam or an Asian compilation album from where I have searched. This led me to search "Productor andaluz DJ local before:2010" (google translated), after searching for this i found a website (https://rocketfestival.com/) this website doesn't seem to work on my computer browser but it works fine on mobile from what i can see the site has no relevant info however, on the side of the website is a sort of ad for "beat digital! rocket's official music download partner" and "dance music MP3s for digital djs", this site is long dead however, there are quite a lot of captures for both the ad link and just "http://www.beatsdigital.com" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070125104046/http://www.beatsdigital.com/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20120804023044/http://www.beatsdigital.com/00804246060010001), this site is very interesting as most of the captures have songs that are completely impossible to find and the site has a feature where people can add songs to their myspace maybe explaining why people remember this song (although i just think they are getting this confused with s3rl), this website is filled with song titles that resemble the concept and from the rocket website it might have been somewhat popular in that area at that time since most of the djs listed on that website have it listed that they played in "nearly all" clubs in adualuzja, it might be possible to find the song from looking at recent releases. it's quite a stretch tbf but since it's possible the song was either uploaded by a local producer or a local dj downloaded the song and they then shared this with op's uncle.

I found this old thread asking a question I've asked myself often:

how you would learn web development if you could start over ?

https://www.reddit.com/Frontend/comments/12h51z1/comment/krp779z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
(and then accidentally spent like 3 hours writing out this story, which I realized needed to be in a list) (and then none of it fit in the comment...) (so, now it will live here)

In a way, I did start over part way through my career. Old thread but I feel like this might be useful to someone out there.

TL;DR / Here's what I would do -- (if I didn't choose a path like College or LauchSchool or Watch and Code or Perpetual Education)

• in general / relax. don't free out. set boundaries
• get really good at HTML and CSS by copying lots of websites you like and making them better
• get the pocket guides (even if they are a bit older now)
• read through them often and find the little things that are too hidden in MDN
• assume everything you make should work equally on every screen it could be viewed on
• learn git early on (almost feels silly to say / it's just like 'learn typing' or how to save your video game)
• make friends with a graphic designer and learn about typography and trade work / even start an agency
• learn about the dev tools and how the resources are all pulled in and how to view everything
• learn how to use a screen reader and how to make your HTML universally accessible - to start
• learn how to author SVGs and how to style them and animate them* go to all the meetups and be helpful and kind and enthusiastic
• pair up and share a screen and build things with other people often / get out of your head
• maintain your personal website at all times and keep an archive of past versions
• write about your explorations, your progress, and just everything you can
• maintain these writings on your personal website that you own
• keep a collection of all of your experiments on your website or in CodePens
• if you're excelling with the semantic/accessible HTML and CSS, your probably hirable somewhere* consider getting a job anywhere - so you can learn on the job while being paid
• learn a server-side programming language and
• use the Exercises for Programmer book as a guide of practical needs* read the documentation like a book (often)
• get another book or two to read about the language you're using and hear it explained differently
• meet with a tutor or mentor at least once a month to course-correct
• learn how to model data and relationships
• plan out a CRUD app in a UI/graphics program (consider a simple Figma prototype)
• build a CRUD app and get clear on HTTP and querystrings and routing concepts
• it's ok to watch/read tutorials or take classes - but don't ever follow along and copy
• when learning from online resources take notes.
• stop often and take the concept their teaching and build a few things that use the concepts differently
• take it beyond the trivial setup and make something out of your comfort zone with no how-to steps
• get comfortable being uncomfortable and don't search for "the answer"
• you'll learn more by exploring than from searching for a prescribed "right way"
• make it work and then talk to your tutor about ways to improve it
• learn from the situation not from the best practices and avoid premature optimization
• allow yourself to get into situations that will highlight the lesson to be learned / search for the problem
• build client site with an admin panel using WordPress to get a feel for a bigger framework ecosystem
• from there you are probably hirable in a role with more responsibility
• you would work on a PHP, Rails, Shopify, or most other codebases now
• figure out what you actually like (or at least a directly you're pretty sure you'll excel in)
• just because you heard "full stack JS" is the norm doesn't mean it's right for you* there are many many many roles and careers and things will change and evolve
• maybe you like UX or UI or graphic design or managing the project
• the design process will always be more important than code and syntax and patterns
• at this point you'll know enough about web development that you can make smart decisions
• you'll know about templates and components and the common concepts present in all stacks
• from there you are probably hirable in a role with more responsibility
• if you're down with web dev (that's what the OP question is about), then it's time to learn JavaScript
• you know 70% of it already because you already know how to program
• now it's time to learn the browser API and about some of the trickier async things
• run through the Exercises for Programmers book by progressively enhancing your server-side versions with JS
• then run through it again with plain JS
• keep meeting with your tutocoworkefriend as often as needed
• but don't let them push you into learning what they think is 'cool' (keep going with plain JS for a while)
• document all of these things and create a style guide, component library, or design system
• learn about the animation options
• build a few app prototypes with JavaScript only (use ECMAScript modules for one of them)
• with the combination of server-side concepts and client-side concepts, you can see some limitations
• from there, you are probably hirable in a role with more responsibility
• build a rest API with your server-side scripting language
• build a client with JavaScript and connect them to explore SPA and PWA
• learn about Node and the ecosystem. You should be able to rebuild that same crud app pretty quickly
• run through the Exercises for Programmers book with Vue (it'll be a more intuitive step than JSX)
• build a client with Vue (you'll need to use some build tools like Vite)
• from there, you are probably hirable in a role with more responsibility
• now you can see how JS apps lose some of the server-side rendering and other security benefits
• consider how the two can work together and concepts like island architecture
• consider the pros and cons of microservices* at this point - you're going to have built a lot of stuff
• and choosing the tools will be up to you
• get a job at a place that you can grow into
• make things that aren't horrible
• plan out the long-term and choose your jobs and projects as though you are creating a legacy
• that sounds silly, but aim high and realize that where you work now will decide where you work later
• choose to work at good companies that build interesting things that are just a little out of your comfort zone
• lift up everyone around you

Obviously, I think PE is the best way to get all of this done the fastest and with the most support. But there are other bootamps that could be inserted in here at the right time - and like I mentioned tutors and many different ways you could learn things things. You could start a business or learn them on the job somewhere.
OK now: if you want to read it - (the story I had to work through and remember to get to this list ^) (might have some ways to explain the "why" here)

I'd say the start (of my learning) went pretty well, so I'd likely do it the same.
The first thing I did was take a course on Lynda (around 2011) that was actually taught by her brother. It was all absolute positioning and background images. I'm glad I did it. It really cleared up how MySpace worked. I had learned how to hack together pretty fancy MySpace pages for bands in college, but I had no real understanding of how everything worked. So, I'm glad I found that course - but basically, the night I finished the project, I read about `@media` rules 💡 (which was new and allowed for responsive/adaptive layouts that could change and many screen sizes). So, that was amazing, and I just got really really into HTML and CSS, and I copied websites I liked and made them even better by making them responsive (when that was really new). I joined stack overflow and answered a lot of questions and learned a lot about the confusions people had with HTML and CSS. I also learned a lot about how to ask good questions.
If I were to do that today, I wouldn't have to hack everything into a custom framework with floats. I'd have Flexbox and grid and custom properties and subgrid, and everything would be 3x easier. I'd start with Flexbox until I could pretty much make anything - and then learn Grid when I got to those situations where it really proves its worth / and then probably end up using Grid much more. I'd focus on this for a long time because you can get a job if you're really good at HTML and CSS, but you can't get a job if you're just OK at everything.
I'd also get a tutor or someone to help me. At the time, none of my friends were doing web development.
I also think that instead of doing freelance for so long, I'd try and get a job at an agency / or these days a bigger company so things weren't so hectic and I'd have some stability. I learned a lot about being freelance, but it was painful. Trial by fire. I learned some WordPress from Chris Coyier's Lynda course. And that was really eye-opening. Not because it was WP but because it tied together the CMS and the dynamic nature of templates. For whatever reason, the way he explained it just really clicked with me, and I felt like I majorly leveled up (fast). I built a pretty serious WP site for a client that is still up today! So, I'd keep that part. But what I would change is that I didn't learn anything about PHP. I tried to use as little as I could get away with and I let it all be mysterious. I didn't know what an array was or an associative array or an object. And I just left it that way. I did the same for JS. I knew just enough to get a click to work but could not have explained how it worked at all. I have proof in some old StackOverflow questions.
It's amazing how there are all these full-stack devs now, and we expect so much out of ourselves, but I was doing great with just that little skill set. I got a job at a small dev shop and learned a ton about clients and teams and all that. But again - I just, for some reason, thought that PHP and JS were beyond me. I just let it be a mystery - and really, the people there weren't the type of people I would learn anything about programming from. So, in retrospect (and I consider choosing where to work as part of the learning process) I should have looked for a new job that would have some more advanced developers after a while. That could have completely changed my trajectory. If someone could see my level of understanding and kinda mentor me - or just say, "Dude. Learn programming. It's not that crazy - you can do it," then I just would have let that mystery cloud go away.
Making sure you're at a place with people who are smarter than you and more experienced than you is really important. But I had learned by myself and always felt like an outsider and that there were some other official 'programmer' people - and I wasn't one of them. So, maybe reaching out to people and trying to go to meetups earlier or getting a tutor would have cleared all that away way early on.
Besides not learning PHP or JS, the next big mistake I made was to try and learn "real web development" and jump into AngularJS (an early JS framework). People always talked about how PHP was dead and WP was lame and I guess I believed them (Even though they were very wrong). It sure worked great, but I wanted to make "apps" and so I started making things with Angular. But the problem was - I was just hacking things together and I didn't even know what a JavaScript object was. I made some cool things, but also - it took me 40x longer than it should have, and I wasn't adding anything to my foundational understanding. It was just avoiding all of the important things to know - and everything I built barely worked, and I didn't understand it at all. But I'd invested so much time! (this is like a lot of new devs who start out learning React). Then Angular 2 came out, and everything I'd scraped together was gone. So, if it's not clear - I would spend as much time as I needed to learn solid PHP and JS before any frameworks. By learning PHP - I could have had a much clearer understanding of HTTP and how forms work and sessions. That would have made everything I did after so much faster and clearer, and I would have really leveled up. And learning about JS would have been pretty easy because it's mostly the same. Everything about the browser API and jQuery would have made so much more sense. Config files would have made sense. Brunch and gulp and build tools wouldn't have been a total black-box mystery.
It's like I made everything 100x harder just because I didn't know what I didn't know. It's seriously ridiculous. What a waste.
In the same amount of time (those 3 years or so), I could have been a master of Angular. I was basically a master of HTML and CSS, but that didn't seem like enough. Again, it would have been if I had known to work at a bigger company and specialize. I could be like those people talking at the conferences on a yacht with Eric Meyer! haha. But what did I do? I decided to learn Ember.js!! Yep! I did my research, and I was sure that Angular had blown it and that Ember was going to be where I could put my energy and become "a real web developer." I did it again! I somehow thought I could skip knowing pretty much every important thing about programming, and I went about memorizing the shapes of the functions and objects and trial and error, and I made some pretty cool stuff. And it's probably hard for you to believe... but I still don't think I understood the basics of programming. It's seriously crazy to think of. And I didn't have anyone who was looking close enough to slap me and redirect me a little. So, I certainly wouldn't do that. If I'd spent 3 months learning PHP or JavaScript, I could have learned more than I learned in what seemed like 2 years of fighting through building things with Ember. It was all my fault. And luckily, I went to a bunch of Ember meetups. And I asked a lot of questions in the Ember Slack. And I got enough feedback to get it through my head that I didn't know nearly enough about what I was doing _to ask intelligent questions.
So, what did I do? I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. Why? Because all the Ember tutorials had this mysterious backend server, they just spun up like it was nothing, and everything depended on it. So, I followed "The Rails Tutorial," and I built the next Facebook and was rich. Just kidding. I finished my app and put it up on Heroku, and a week later didn't know how any of it worked because I'd followed along and there were all these little edge cases and auth setup, and it was all server-side, and I'm sure I learned some things... but not nearly as much as if I'd had a real-life empathetic human to actually take stock of what I knew, didn't, know - and how disconnected it all was.
It's just insane that we expect to learn all this complex stuff on our own.
So, at this point - I was 5 or 6 years into my web dev life. And this is where I decided to stop what I was doing. To stop all the framework stuff and all the epic (but unfinished) projects and go back to JavaScript. I think that I should have gone back to PHP actually, so that's what I'd do in this new ideal outline. But I didn't. So, let's insert: learn enough about PHP to make a CRUD app with forms, deal with the file system, really clarify HTTP, query strings, and serverside concepts, sessions, and cookies, and build a small version of a CMS-like Visual Idiot who built Anchor (an awesome dev I just remembered being really inspired by). Learn basic SQL queries and things.
It's just wild how much this would have opened up for me.
Then (and only after that), I'd sprinkle in some JS and learn how to progressively enhance things. At that point, I would have been a real developer - and I probably could have done it in a year if I'd had some other humans to talk to. I'm not shy. I just didn't know how to find anyone. I listened to shoptalk show. I read CSS tricks.
To really learn JS, I bought a few books. Eloquent JavaScript and the new The Secret of the JavaScript Ninja Second edition (and to date, how late this was in my career - it came out September 10, 2016). ElloquentJS started out OK, but wasn't a fit for me. JS Ninja was a good fit. But it still didn't help me figure out where to use it. I did all the challenges. I worked through all the code. I understood what set was. But it wasn't until somehow I'd found this book Exercises for Programmers that I actually sat down and wrote code until I really knew how to be a real programmer. The exercises were language agnostic. They had no answers. It just forced you to sit down with the tools and design a solution. It helped outline the process of breaking down the problem. And more than anything, it forced you to think about user requirements. I hadn't been learning the right programming things all those years, but I was now a Sr Product designer and front-end developer. I learned a lot about UX along the way. And if you combine HTML, CSS, and PHP or JS with clear user requirements, you will learn how to build web interfaces faster than you can imagine. That's what I did.
I learned everything I should have learned (and could have learned 5 years prior) - in a few months. Shortly after I also ran into Godon's Watch and Code and seeing his introductory course where he talks through building a todo list was a bit late - but also would have been really really helpful 5 years ago! So, it all came together. The configs all turned out to be just key:value pairs. I realized that the CSS and HTML were also key:value pairs the whole time. It's all just key:value pairs. I filled in all the gaps I had with Ember. I felt pretty dumb, but it also felt really great to finally understand it through the lens of the problems it solved and how it's more like training wheels than extra-advanced JavaScript. The Rails tutorial made sense in retrospect and acted as my connection for what I should have learned about PHP. I picked up Vue really easily and managed to avoid React and JSX because gross. And I wouldn't change anything about it - because it made me who I am. But I'd never wish it on anyone else. And so many other things happened that I'm sure I forgot - but / now, when someone askes me how I'd learns web development - I have a very clear idea about that. And I even have a few years of testing this reverse-engineered outline on real people. It works.

Hey guys, I’m trying to figure out the name of a 2000s browser dating sim. The characters were drawn in a manga/anime-style, and your main character was a vampire I believe. I forget the actual dating part, except for the fact that the goal was to bite them. Once you did, you would then have to attack as many white blood cells as you could. I know that sounds weird, but I can’t describe it much better. I think the character you played as lived inside a high rise apartment, but I’m not entirely sure. I feel like the game popped up as an advertisement on the side of MySpace or Facebook, and as a kid I just clicked on it lol. I’ve tried looking it up with no luck. Thank you!

Platform: browser
Genre: kids educational
Estimated year of release: sometime in early 2000s
Graphics/art style: 2D animation with bright, unnaturally colored characters
notable characters: two teenagers, a girl and boy
notable gameplay mechanics:
other details: the main characters were a girl and a guy, supposed to be teens. animated with bright colors, main characters have purple and green skin respectively i believe. there were a bunch of shops, one was a candy store where you learned supply and demand, one where you had to choose the best option based on prices out of 3 pizza shops, one where you had to pick which phone you wanted out of a bunch based on their features, one where you had to decide which products were scams (ex something that made you get crazy muscles, snails that fixed your skin or something), another where a bag gets stolen and you have to find it or something, another where you had to help the security guard in some way, another where you designed a poster for a shoe store, another where you called out a fake vacation scammer, and more i believe. PLEASE help me i can’t find it anywhere. it basically taught business stuff simply for little kids.
edit: i remembered a bit more. there was also a game in a coffee shop where the barista was into a girl that was there and she was designing her page on something that looked like myspace and the game would be to design the page. at the end of that she gets hacked and you have to get rid of the virus or something,

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.

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