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  • Streetdog@sh.itjust.workstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•iPhone is listening
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    11 months ago

    Everything is connected through it, to the internet. All your devices have the same IP when connecting with the outside. If your ISP has access to it (most common setup unless you have your own router) they can see every bit of traffic going through it (tho they can’t decrypt encrypted traffic, there is tons of personal information going through it). The standard insecure router is not difficult to compromise (especially a public one), resulting in compromised networks. A company like Google or Facebook, even without having an account with them, can get a good profile of each member in your household simply through tracking traffic (IP and device foremost). Not mentioning the “deals” they have to obtain or share this data with each other.

    A VPN solves a lot of those issues, or at least obscures it, there’s still fingerprinting.

    Decent ISPs will configure their routers mostly locked down, but some don’t at all. It’s great if they allow you to configure it yourself lest you know what you’re doing.

    If you’re using it bare naked, don’t be surprised your SO’s phone or your Smart TV shows ads for stuff you’ve been searching for in your phone at night alone in the bathroom. Even when none of the services are logged in or from the same company. It’s any tracking company’s moneymaker.

  • Streetdog@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Messed up things a doctor did to you or someone you know? / Bad experiences with doctors
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    1 year ago

    Doctors are still people and people make mistakes.

    Yet it’s hard to not hold a grudge against a doctor telling you you’re a liar. Let alone if multiple say the same thing. Especially if they do it “by the book” so to speak.

    The experience I had here, another country, the GP just looked at my eczema (basically eyes, fingers, spots on legs and arms all red and itchy af) and said without a doubt in her voice “allergy.” And was she right about that. So don’t give up hope.

    Edit: Not that I meant to say you should move to another country. Just that because here it is more humid, there is more mold, so more similar cases might have passed this GP in her time practicing.

  • Streetdog@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Messed up things a doctor did to you or someone you know? / Bad experiences with doctors
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had eczema all my life. Mostly on my face/arms/legs, whenever exposed (summer/winter). Have been prescribed a shitton of steroid-based ointments. That never worked. From GP to dermatologists, they never knew coz “eczema can’t be explained”, so they always “assumed” stuff, blaming the heat, the cold, the dust, the sun, the water, too much soap, too little soap (calling me dirty).

    Not once did they (offer me to) test for allergies. Just assumed it was something unexplainable. Just live with it.

    Even been called a liar when I told them those steroid-based ointments actually make it worse.

    I moved to another country, still had this eczema. Worse actually. 1 GP visit and an allergy test later it appears I have a mold allergy.

    Doesn’t help I have lived and still live in an even more humid environment. Rain is the worst, because the spores come out. But with the help of some anti-histamines I have been eczema free for a few years. Mold thrives on steroids, so I avoid that.