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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Not 100% on topic, but as a preventative method, I use an email forwarding service (like SimpleLogin, Anonaddy, etc), because you can just delete an alias if it starts spamming.

    Might be too late for that now though, I’m guessing once your email gets out there, it’s gonna be rough going for a long while until they stop spamming, if they ever do.



  • On one hand I agree, but on the other, if you use 01-01-1970 everywhere, you’d be that one guy (with the IIIII plate), because as I still believe, the amount of people using that date everywhere would never be big enough to void the fields value to the ad networks.

    Which is why I think using a random one is best, it at the very least changes my data for each account I own.

    But in a purely theoretical way, I do agree. Practically however, I don’t think it will work, since not enough people will do it.


  • Does that apply to date fields? Most have dropdown menus where you can just do a big scroll and click wherever it lands. Maybe if you had to type one out, but both methods mixed together makes it harder to predict your “pattern” (i would guess).

    I’m not fully convinced a unique pattern would emerge in this scenario, but maybe i’m wrong.


  • Pretty sure they are scientists. It’s a broad term as far as I know, and anyways these are (probably) smart people (judging by their titles/jobs) and what they are saying or concluding from data is just common sense: heavier car = more wear and tear on road surfaces.

    Anyways: Are you saying it could be EVs too? That’s probably likely to be causing some of this too, I think they are generally 500kg heavier than gas cars.

    Another reason to add to the “EVS ARENT THE SOLUTION” pile?








  • Realistically it won’t be that many people in their networks of data that use the same date, 01-01-1970 in this case, and they might even use that trend of date when possible to infer that you like technology or are in certain circles.

    Random dates sound safer to me. I don’t see how using random ones could end up in some unique-to-you pattern.


  • The way they’re doing it actually seems way better in my opinion.

    Steam’s userbase is big enough, there’s likely always an exact system out there that’s shared fps for the game you want and with that info you can know (with some margin for error) how it’ll run for you.

    Game minimum requirements aren’t always accurate in my experience and I’m guessing they list actual components rather than specs of said component because two chips with the same cores/ghz can perform quite differently nowadays, so they leave it to the consumer to validate (might not be easy or possible to calculate this type of thing programatically im not sure).