How to be sure an account in Telegram is deleted

In Telegram you can easily make an account look exactly like a deleted account.

Such accounts have a deleted photo, username is removed, name is as "Deleted Account" and privacy options are restricted (last online time, forwarding messages, showing phone number, etc.).

There are a couple of points that can help you recognize a fake 👇

✅ A really deleted account shows "last seen a long time ago" instead of the last activity time.

✅ There is no message entry field.

✅ When you change the interface language, the account name changes.

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Share files conveniently!

Send Anywhere is a file sharing application that takes an easy, quick, and unlimited approach to file sharing. It is for anyone wanting to share quality content quickly, from any device to anyone in the world 🌍.

The service uses p2p networking, making the transfer process safer and faster. In addition, the service requires no login or registration - all that's required is a one-time 6-digit code that syncs the sending and receiving devices.

Sending:
1. Select a file and click Send.
2. The service will generate a 6-digit one-time key that you will share with the person you want to send the file to.

Obtaining: enter the 6-digit one-time key on the receiving device.

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Signs Your Social Media Accounts Have Been Hacked

Hackers can stealthily take control of your social media accounts without your knowledge. So, look out for these 👇 signs.

✅ Your password has been changed.

✅ Random posts from your profile.

✅ Your contacts reporting unusual messages. Check if there have been unusual sharing of links that you did not share or messages that you did not send across your network.

✅ Logins from remote locations.

✅ Unusual increase in number of friends or followers. Hackers often spread malicious links and content by adding other people to your network or using your authority to accomplish what they need.

✅ Receiving emails notifying about unauthorized access.

✅ Signed up for subscriptions and unusual purchases.

✅ Suspicious activity in your ad manager (campaigns running for promoting pages or selling products, with random credit cards added as payment methods).

Protect your social media accounts!

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Send Messages, Not Metadata

Your correspondence can be read in almost all messengers. The exception is Telegram, but it is not completely anonymous - it requires you to enter your phone number to register. If it comes up, you will be easily identified.

Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance. It does not ask for an email or 📱 number when you register, but assigns you an ID - a set of hundreds of characters. It looks like a long nickname that you can share with your interlocutor to start a chat.

The app looks like a normal messenger - you can send documents, voice messages, there are groups, but it's completely anonymous. The company has no servers, the routing goes through users - it means that leaks of personal data are simply impossible.

Available on iPhone, Android and PC.

Use it!

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How to Beat Social Media Algorithms

Social media platforms charge you nothing to use them, except info about you. Their algorithms decide what content to show you.❗️Don’t make their data harvesting easier —skirt the algorithms whenever you can.

✅ Don’t confirm the algorithm’s assumptions. Avoid interacting with suggested content if possible. If you find something interesting in suggestions, search for it manually and watch it from there.

✅ Eliminate suggested feeds when possible. Change your feeds to sort chronologically ➡️ don’t train the platform’s algorithm. Not for all social medias! Facebook and Twitter let you sort by recent posts. Instagram might not have a chronological feed at the moment, but it’s coming. TikTok - watch content from the “Following” (would show you videos only from accounts you follow).

✅ Use platforms without your account when possible (YouTube, Reddit).

✅ Use a burner account, with none of your real info.

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How to search on Google from another region

I Search From helps you simulate using a Google search from another location or device, or search with custom search settings.

The site allows you to build your search query so that Google searches by the territorial data you specify.

You can choose from search region and device type to city.

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How to Copy More Than One Thing to Your Clipboard at a Time

If you ever need to copy multiple things from one place to another or have a habit of misplacing the link you copied but forgot to paste, you need a clipboard manager.

Windows 10 and 11 come with their own basic clipboard history too. Enable the feature from Settings > System > Clipboard > Clipboard History. Then, use the Windows + V keyboard shortcut to bring up a floating panel where you’ll see a list of text that you have recently copied to the clipboard. You can click on an entry to paste it into the text, and the Pin button to pin that entry to the top.

The Windows clipboard history tool is nice to have. But it’s no clipboard manager 👇.

Ditto is a lightweight, free, and open-source clipboard manager.

1Clipboard is another great option for a free, universal app built on open source tech. It works on both Windows and Mac.

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How to Turn Off/On All Sensors on Android Phone With a Tap

While Android offers quick toggles to disable location tracking and cellular connectivity, there’s no direct option to switch off the rest of your phone’s sensors. For example, gyroscope can use to intercept sensitive information like passwords, account names from your 📱. Luckily, Android has a hidden setting that lets you shut off all your phone’s sensors in a single tap.

✅ Go to Settings > About phone > and tap build number 7 times to enable Developer Options.
✅In Settings, go to System > Advanced > and tap on Developer Options.
✅ Scroll down and tap on Quick settings developer tiles.
✅ Now, tap on Sensors off toggle to add the tile on the Quick Settings panel.
✅Now, to on and off sensors, pull down the Quick Settings panel, and tap on the Sensors off tile.

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Checking APK files for viruses

There is a small chance to stumble on dangerous applications even in PlayMarket , and if you download from other sources, this risk increases tenfold.

Therefore, you should take care of your security in advance. MetaDefender Cloud will help.

It is a free scanner that runs the file through the databases of 40 anti-viruses simultaneously. All you have to do is attach a file, its hash, its IP address, or a link to a suspicious site - and click "Process".

In just a few seconds the service will scan the entire file and show the results of each antivirus scan and also the metadata and rights of the application ✅.

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Swap geolocation in your browser

It's very useful feature that will allow you to keep at least a little more personal privacy.

Location Guard will keep your location private in your browser. You give it access to your location, and it controls what resources end up getting. And what they get is not what you actually have.

This kind of dispersion of your location is available at several different levels on an incremental basis. The extension is available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

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GOOGLE ALTERNATIVES WORTH TRYING

The recent focus on online privacy has seen more people seeking Google services alternatives offering the same level of functionality with the added bonus of better privacy. Here you are 👇.

✅ NewPipe is almost the same as YouTube, but without ads and with the ability to download videos for free. Only available on Android.

✅ Organic Maps is a private alternative to Google Maps. It works even without internet. There are no ads, no registration, no notifications, and your personal information is almost never collected.

✅ F-Droid is the best alternative for Google Play. It is an independent open source app store where you will find any app for free.

✅ WebMail is a simple email client with a plain design instead of Gmail. You can't register a new email in it, but you can continue to use your old email.

✅ StartPage is a Google search that doesn't collect any data about you. You can use it to find even blocked sites and visit them without proxies or VPNs.

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How to protect yourself from phishing sites with Google?

Password Alert is an extension which is activated when a user enters his password on a site with the form accounts.google.com. The plugin from Google developers does not store the password, but creates an imprint of it in the browser's local storage.

So far, the plugin is only available on Google Chrome, but there are alternatives - Chrome, Opera, Firefox. They are suitable for phishing protection with different forms of password filling.

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How to find and delete duplicate files on your PC quickly

All of us probably have duplicate files piled up on our hard drives over time. Files that you have downloaded several times, lying in such depths that you just can't get to them. You can get rid of such files manually, but it is much faster to use a special program 👇.

AllDup is a free and very powerful utility that allows you to perform a high-quality search for the duplicate files on your 💻 and quickly delete the excessive copies to save free space.

The program searches, deletes, copies and moves duplicate files, including identical audio records with different tags. There is a flexible customization of the search. With the built-in viewer you can examine files and choose what to delete.

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Find out who's watching you through  camera

Both huge companies and ordinary hackers can try to get access to your camera for their own purposes. In both cases, you probably won't even know it's there.

One of the few ways to know if your camera is being tracked is with the help of  Procesed Explorer utility. The software was created by Microsoft Corporation, so it's effective.

✅ Press Win + R to open "Device Manager", run devmgmt.msc and tap "Details".

✅ In the list select "Physical Device Object Name" - \Device\0000009c.

✅ Copy this name, download it and run it as administrator.

✅ Type the name of the webcam in the search box and click on "Search" with the binoculars icon.

That's it: you'll see the processes and applications that use the camera. See the details or complete them, if you want.

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Protect your personal data

It's a common situation when you post photos or posts to various social medias, then you grow up and that content stays with you. It's inconvenient to clean everything manually. For that, use Jumbo.

Jumbo is a privacy and security assistant that protects you from online risks such as data breaches, online tracking, unwanted social media posts, unsecured Wi-Fi networks and more.

This tool knows how to delete posts from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks after a certain amount of time, such as half a year.

The service automatically blocks more than 400 trackers, including Google, Facebook and Amazon, to ensure privacy of viewing. Also knows how to delete the history of Google search, email, shopping and YouTube search.

Available on iOS and Android.

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Free email tracker for Gmail

Your email can open tracking and link clicks statistics for your email messages.

Email Tracker is a completely free email tracking extension for Gmail that will show you which emails have been opened by your recipients, including the number of opens and link clicks, right in your Gmail.

This mail tracker also lets you set follow-up reminders, schedule emails for later, and get regular performance reports.

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PDF Audio Reader App For Android

If you want to listen to the content of PDF documents like an audiobook, you can use apps.

Pdf Studio is a free PDF audio reader app for Android. This app can understand and read out the text of different languages.

Main app Features:
✅ Multiple Language Support: it can understand and read out the text of various languages present in a PDF document.
✅ PDF Scan and Organizing: This app automatically searches and organizes all the PDF documents of your 📱 in one place.
✅ Speech Tools: users can easily play the reading voice, stop the reading voice, move to the next page, jump to a specific page number.

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How to know how anonymous on the Internet you are

All the sites you visit can see your address, IP and ISP name. But if you care about your anonymity, you probably use a VPN or Tor to prevent sites from finding out your real identity.

Proxy6 collects and checks all your data, and shows you the results of the check after a few seconds.

You'll know what your conditional online profile looks like - whether you have VPN, proxy, Tor, Turbo mode and two-way pings enabled. And Proxy6 will also check you in leak databases: for example, if your DNS, IP address via WebRTC and other data is leaked.

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Tablecruncher

Tablecruncher is a powerful CSV editor that supports macOS, Windows, and Linux, providing fast processing of large files up to 2 GB.

The program supports various encodings and offers a built-in JavaScript macro language, as well as several color themes for user convenience.

https://github.com/Tablecruncher/tablecruncher

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Lumier 

Lumier is an interface for running macOS virtual machines with minimal setup. It uses Docker as a packaging system to deliver a pre-configured environment that connects to the lume virtualization service running on your host machine.

With Lumier, you get:

✅ A ready-to-use macOS or Linux virtual machine in minutes;
✅ Browser-based VNC access to your VM;
✅ Easy file sharing between your host and VM;
✅ Simple configuration through environment variables

https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier

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Stop Blurring Your Sensitive Information in Screenshots

Want to hide parts of a screenshot that contain personal info, such as  💳 number? That’s a good idea, but you should stop using tools that pixelate, blur, or use other effects like swirls to hide this info—it’s almost like baiting strangers into trying to see what’s been redacted.

Unredacter can easily reveal text hidden using crude effects such as pixelation. It’s a free tool available for anyone to use, and it’s been created to generate awareness about the dangers of sharing poorly hidden text in screenshots.

The next time you want to share a screenshot online, use better tools to hide your personal data. The safest tool for most people is solid color blocks. You can quickly draw a solid color rectangle over sensitive information to make it almost impossible to decipher. On Windows and Mac, any free image editor can do it.

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