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@MEGAprivacy

The Privacy Company • End-to-End Encryption • Cloud Storage and Communication • Privacy by Design

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@MEGAprivacy
May 22
Mainstream cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox costs around $5 to $6 per TB. Should privacy-first alternatives cost more? 💸 Privacy shouldn't come at a premium. After all, it should be the standard. Full breakdown of secure cloud storage in 2026 here
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@MEGAprivacy
Oct 7
Why does a Discord bot hold this much data? 😳 Double Counter's own privacy policy gives the answer. It links your IP address to your Discord ID to detect alts, and cites GDPR legitimate interests as its legal basis. Data stays for up to 24 months, and deleting yours only
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@Pirat_Nation
Oct 7
Double Counter’s data breach may be much bigger than initially reported, someone in contact with the hacker just sent me more info The stolen database allegedly contained much more: -21.7 million verified user records IP addresses, geographic data, ISPs and Discord usernames
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@MEGAprivacy
Oct 7
Discord users can't catch a break 🫠 Double Counter, the bot servers used to catch alt accounts, says about 28 million Discord user IDs and usernames and about 27 million IP and location records were at least partly copied and are being treated as exposed. If you've ever used
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@Pirat_Nation
Oct 7
A new data breach involving Double Counter has exposed information connected to Discord users affecting around 275,000 unique email addresses. According to Have I Been Pwned, the exposed data includes: -Email addresses -Discord usernames -Names -Geographic information -Country
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@MEGAprivacy
Oct 7
Would you fall for this? 👀 This email appears to come from a real Google address, and the link starts with google.com. Attackers can now ride on Google and Microsoft's own sign-in and alert features, and AI has cleaned up the typos that used to give them away.
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@MEGAprivacy
Sep 30
We searched "how to turn off Google AI overview" three ways. The plain search led with an AI Overview that told us it can't be permanently turned off. Very transparent of them 🙂 Adding -ai removed the Overview along with anything useful, and left us with a video carousel that
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@Dylanszn01
Sep 29
Can we please have the non-AI version of Google back? I do not want an AI summary. I do not want an AI overview. I do not want AI to read the internet for me. I want Google to show me the actual results. How do I turn this nonsense off?