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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • I’m in my 40’s and have always been a tech nerd. I have no personal information or pictures I don’t want to get out saved in the cloud. All of my things are only locally saved and backed up. I also keep multiple emails with different passwords and names. My Microsoft account I do have is verified for changes through a non Microsoft email address.

    It would be a pain in the ass to screw with me in any major capacity. Quite frankly, I’m still surprised that the masses just accept cloud saving all their pictures and documents, just trusting Amazon or Google or Apple or Microsoft to not have security issues, especially when they’ve had so many security issues.













  • So here’s the deal is you “really” can’t afford $30 a YEAR:

    I use a VPN called windscribe. You can buy this 1 year VPN for $30. You can buy it through the Google play store.

    I also have the “Google Rewards” app that pays you in Google play store credit for taking short surveys or taking pictures of receipts.

    I get $50 to $100 per year in play store credits to spend on Google play.

    See where I’m going with this? I pay for my yearly subscription with my “free” play store credits I get.

    =Free VPN. Like right now I’ve got almost $40 in play store credits (the free credits you earn have to be spent in a year. It spends the oldest credits first) and I have like 4 months left before I have to renew my VPN subscription. Since I never enjoyed any pay to win styles of games, at this point I practically run out of things I even want to buy with my credits before they start to expire. I’ve bought probably a thousand dollars worth of apps and games over the years and haven’t ever spent a single cent of my own money on any of them. Nothing but the reward app credits. I buy the “pro” versions of apps I use to remove ads, even if the ads don’t bother me or I don’t use that particular app very much.