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Intro + Safety Tips?
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Intro + Safety Tips?
Hey everyone! I'm new here, deconverted about a year ago and was wondering: Any safety tips to keep my presence on here secret from my family / other people that use this computer? I use incognito mode in Chrome and frequently clear all browsing data. Call me paranoid, but I want to make sure before getting really active on this forum.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
(September 2, 2014 at 5:54 pm)onebluethinker Wrote: Hey everyone! I'm new here, converted about a year ago and was wondering: Any safety tips to keep my presence on here secret from my family / other people that use this computer? I use incognito mode in Chrome and frequently clear all browsing data. Call me paranoid, but I want to make sure before getting really active on this forum.

Welcome.

And I'll let someone more IT savvy answer the questions.

Smile
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
Welcome

Welcome to the forum.

Diablo
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
(September 2, 2014 at 5:58 pm)Beccs Wrote: Welcome.

And I'll let someone more IT savvy answer the questions.

Smile

You know what, my parents probably won't be able to figure out that I was on this site even if there was a way. I think I'll just start posting.

And THANK SO MUCH for responding. It's sad that I'm so happy about it but my life is really lonely right now.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
(September 2, 2014 at 6:03 pm)onebluethinker Wrote:
(September 2, 2014 at 5:58 pm)Beccs Wrote: Welcome.

And I'll let someone more IT savvy answer the questions.

Smile

You know what, my parents probably won't be able to figure out that I was on this site even if there was a way. I think I'll just start posting.

And THANK SO MUCH for responding. It's sad that I'm so happy about it but my life is really lonely right now.

You've come to a good community.

We tend to talk, debate, swear and generally have fun.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
If you want to keep it a secret from fundy parents or such like there is a "stealth-mode" option in the user control panel. Makes it look like a PC forum.

Welcome
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
(September 2, 2014 at 5:54 pm)onebluethinker Wrote: Hey everyone! I'm new here, deconverted about a year ago and was wondering: Any safety tips to keep my presence on here secret from my family / other people that use this computer? I use incognito mode in Chrome and frequently clear all browsing data. Call me paranoid, but I want to make sure before getting really active on this forum.

In order of increasing paranoia:

* Use incognito mode / private browsing mode and / or clear your history.
...on a non-shared user account.
...in conjunction with VPN or an encrypted tunnel if you're really paranoid.
...on a virtual machine
...which is stored on an encrypted volume (I used to recommend TrueCrypt, but that's no longer a viable option).
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
Welcome

In your User CP (Control Panel) you can change your preferences.

Click User CP (upper-right of login screen)

Next click Edit Profile (Center left of User CP)

Next, under "Additional Information", the third box down asks if you'd like to enable stealth mode - answer "yes".

That should help.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
(September 2, 2014 at 6:10 pm)ShaMan Wrote: Welcome

In your User CP (Control Panel) you can change your preferences.

Click User CP (upper-right of login screen)

Next click Edit Profile (Center left of User CP)

Next, under "Additional Information", the third box down asks if you'd like to enable stealth mode - answer "yes".

That should help.

I don't think that actually does anything useful anymore. Could be wrong.
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RE: Intro + Safety Tips?
Welcome!
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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