The issue with chat is that they are harder to moderate and if a chat ends mods probably wouldn’t get to review the chat history. Some users might try using it to hide secrets. (particularly maga or hateful content against minorities among others)

These seem to be the 4 options particularly for ssaid. See my last comment. you should also be able to reset the advertising I.d which you can easily do right on your android phone’s settings without root.

USAID is pretty straight forward to spoof, you can either do it with adb using a PC, or by factory resetting the phone. (which is probably a last resort for you not sure.) edit: or you can create a virtual environment, or root and use Xposed/Magisk modules.

No i’m saying what specifically do you mean by device id. because I need to know so I can tell you if or how you can spoof it.

One final detail, when you say device id. Do you mean (for Android) ssaid, IMEI or advertising I.d or Mac address?

So device id is one piece of the puzzle, among other ways of getting your location and address.

However with that in mind here is why I would particularly try to hide the device id.

It never changes, your IP address can change based off of the network you are on which is particularly good for cellular connection. However using a VPN is still better.

To my knowledge they couldn’t just get your location form device id itself, however device id and IP address are part of the collection they are aiming to grab. As I said, if you forget to check if your VPN is on, then they can collect your IP address/location separately from your device id.

Do cover up anything and everything you can. Not because it gives additional info, but every new thing is just another piece of the equation.

I mean, in what context. Are you trying to to make sure they don’t know its you using their apps or services? Or just in general wondering if you should hide your device id. If you aren’t hiding anything illegal, while using a VPN device I.d wouldn’t really help them much. If you are using modified apps to access services. In a case like this, for instance with Disney+ or Netflix, apps could figure your device id and then the second you mess up and are connected to their apps and your VPN is off then they can then connect the real IP address with that device id.

Overall For privacy protection you should 100% spoof your device id. However if you aren’t doing anything illegal particularly modding official apps, or using such modifications. You might not need to spoof the device id, and a VPN alone might still be enough anyways as long that it is a trusted VPN, don’t just use any make sure you know that you can trust the VPN host provider.

It should offer extra protection. If they can still block you by ip you might need a completely new device. and possibly even a new network. If not even Tor and VPN combined does not work.

Of all things to cut, I like Npr, but ok fine. But internet access is so valuable, if there was anything you’d think he would fund it would be internet access. But apparently no. Then again remember that he appointed an fcc leader that repealed net neutrality.

To confirm, you are using a VPN and on top of a VPN you are using tor? if you are not using Tor, then yeah use that in combination with a vpn. Try Tor.

If you are concerned of the possibility of a bot being among other users that has no been deleted what I would suggest is. Get into less popular and less documented videos topics and their comment sections.

Idk what you are searching for but the more specific a video is to a genre or video topic will certainly throw off an ai chat bot. They’ll eventually say the wrong thing. What you do then is see if they bother correcting themselves or do they keep using the same answer in responses. You’l know its a bot because in more niche topic a real person would be more dedicated into saying the right things.

Linux is well documented but how documented is Palemoon browser compared to Firefox for example. The more specific you get the easier it will be to know if it’s an ai bot. If you talk about everyday topics the ai is always being trained on user generated content. It gets harder to tell.

I don’t even look at YouTube comments half the time.

with that said, while you can delete your content from the physical server any screen share, or internet archive are kept forever, also this might not clear your posts from federated servers.

It’s pretty easy to do in your Lemmy account settings. For someone who has done this many, many times .

If it doesn’t you might have to use a 3rd party screen share tool. Or try some sort of work around, such as such as by using discord screen share to share the screen recording of another screen share application that does show your mouse cursor.

1 tb is a good start for most use case. 5 tb…? now you’re getting somewhere.

Sounds good. still doesn’t hurt to have an alternative to jump ship.

What if there is a situation where they just don’t.

Some screenshare software has a setting you need to toggle to then have the mouse show. I would look into your screen share settings and check for a toggle like that,

I use it all the time when walking a track. Pretty good app, and it lets my brain not worry about losig track and wondering if I really did walk around the desired amount of times.