Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Are you fed up of spam calls?

 Updated information on July 6, 2022


NGL is the latest popular anonymous messaging app

The app is targeted at teens and blowing up in Apple's App Store

 

No wander as of yesterday, I have been getting so many text and phone messages! It's so annoying! Wasting my time and energy blocking them! How about you? How do you deal with it?

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 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stop-giving-companies-your-phone-number-do-this-instead

Stop Giving Companies Your Phone Number. Do This Instead.

Facebook and Twitter admit that marketers accessed the phone numbers people gave them for security verification. Here’s how to protect yourself without handing over your digits.

Fast Company

NOTE: I have my main account under my real name on FB with my personal phone linked to it.

However, I had another one for business and used my google phone number. FB never sent me the verfication last month. So I have no access to that account. FYI I had that account for at least 15 years and now I cannot access it....

That made me rethink Facebook. And also all the communities I manage there. I have parallel communities on LinkedIn, just in case.

 What's your experience with the google phone number and other apps that FORCE YOU to have 2 way authentication and phone number?

Why my laptops are so slow

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