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other people, smarter than me, have come up with much better ways to keep secure while online.

so my wisdom may be old hat, or ridiculously simple.

but i have found the simple thing can be the most effective thing.

idea - websites that ask for your email address as a user name.  don’t use a known email address. if your regular email address is joeblow@gmail.slob - create another account with a user name no one knows, that you don’t email from, and that you won’t give out - say  user1001@mail.com.

why is this effective?

if you are to be hacked by someone, and they are not aware of the account you use, they will have to guess the user name and domain.  don’t have that domain forward any emails you recieve from the online accounts to your master email address - if that one gets hacked, the duck blind you set up is gone.

by the way - throw away email accounts at google or hotmail are bad.  stop using them.  buy your email access from a provider that doesn’t sell to you through ads.  your privacy is just about gone on the web as it is…why give the rest of it away?

YMMV.