Denial of facts

Fact check reality, get in that rabbit hole and I know 87% will fall victim due to Google trackers and end up in a 2 hack list on grey or dark net.
To function in (f)society you have to register online even for medics? And you all ok with that? that is just a warm up for tomorrow.

Every day I receive 2 to 15 phone calls from strange numbers starting with the same first 4 digits. It's cold calling to get me to buy things (which I won't do).

Internet has become a gigantic sales platform and everyone can/want to use your data to offer you products or services.

Just a little caution.
When you get such calls do not under any circumstances answer a question with Yes
as this can be manipulated into an agreement to purchase services or products.
I frequently get calls showing my local area code as the callers area code in an attempt to make me believe this is a local call. I've got my spam filter active but some calls still slip through. I always block the number on such calls but I still get them from another number.

@Dukedog said in #3:
> Just a little caution.
> When you get such calls do not under any circumstances answer a question with Yes
> as this can be manipulated into an agreement to purchase services or products.
> I frequently get calls showing my local area code as the callers area code in an attempt to make me believe this is a local call. I've got my spam filter active but some calls still slip through. I always block the number on such calls but I still get them from another number.
True dat! They will ask "can you hear me?" They are looking for that one 'yes'. I'm tempted to ask "can YOU hear me? Awesome, now ____ off!" Seriously, we usually just say "remove this number from your call list."

True story: i received a call from a number i didn't recognize so, i answered " sheriff's office, fraud department, deputy kowalski speaking, how can i help you?" There was brief laughter on the other end followed by "that's real good! Actually, this is _____ with the hospital calling for your pre-admittance work for tomorrow's surgery." Good laughs all around.

I try to annoy spam callers to the best of my ability. Preferably to the extent one of them get a stroke. Sadly, I haven't got one for years now, perhaps I'm blacklisted...

getting blacklisted by spam callers seems a small price to pay for the sadistic pleasure of giving one of them a stroke.

One thing I do try to remember if I get such a call is that the person making the call is just someone doing a very stressful job (gets loads of verbal abuse from the people they are calling) and working for a shark employer, or even a criminal employer, who will be giving that person abuse too. The best thing to do is just hang up.

@Upstream1656 said in #1:
> Fact check reality, get in that rabbit hole and I know 87% will fall victim due to Google trackers and end up in a 2 hack list on grey or dark net.

Degoogle. Google is spyware. Use free software whenever possible for you, avoid spyware whenever possible. There are some alternatives to companies that use unethical practices. Everything in your hands.

@CyberShredder said in #8:
> Degoogle. Google is spyware. Use free software whenever possible for you, avoid spyware whenever possible. There are some alternatives to companies that use unethical practices. Everything in your hands.

I know and I do, A try to maintain a good browser hygiene with the best available search engines like MetaGer etc and encrypted mail, cleaning history and cache regularly along with other measures on pc outside browser as in. For real privacy I even used a virtual machine with a torified system as Linux with a VPN on host and a network modification (DNS) namely CryptDNS.
My phone however is not able to de root, I'll brick him there Graphene OS is best so that google pest me on this phone...

@CSKA_Moscou said in #2:
> Every day I receive 2 to 15 phone calls from strange numbers starting with the same first 4 digits. It's cold calling to get me to buy things (which I won't do).
>
> Internet has become a gigantic sales platform and everyone can/want to use your data to offer you products or services.

It made me laugh that a day in some shop the shop employee nearly insisted to offer me a member card so that you get some promotions or free few cash after a certain amount you bought, but you need to give your phone and e mail...