i was ALAB

Assigned lame at birth

this is hella old but apparently still relevant

Govts and corpos will use bluetooth and wifi mac addresses to ID and track people. luckily more and more devices are shipped with wifi mac randomization.

there’s only two ways you are preventing carrier/google/apple signals coming out of a phone and giving yourself away:

1. its something like a pinephone that has no google/apple services running and you have a physical toggle to turn off bluetooth, wifi, data

2. a faraday bag

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-difference-between-wordpress-and-wordpresscom?ref=selfh.st

“If you’re confused, don’t worry; it’s been confusing everyone for two decades, and is a frequent topic of debate. To make it simple, think of it this way: If you go to WordPress.com to sign into your site, your site content is at risk of being used to train AI models. If your site is hosted anywhere other than WordPress.com (like on GoDaddy, Bluehost, or Siteground), then you have a self-hosted WordPress site.”