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Originally Posted by nonightowl
Thanks for alerting us Willow.  I never clicked on the link on purpose and the 1 or 2 times I did it, it was an accident. I closed the window right away.
IMHO It’s a losing battle keeping our data or activity safe. And the more one is on online, the more of a digital footprint. And that means more possibilities of data being breached or actively tracked. Everyone claims to “value your privacy” yet everyone has a different privacy policy. It is written in legalese pages long that nobody reads. And since so many companies collect data on people and it’s shared with others, it’s hard to keep up with who has what on you. You can opt out of what is shared but there’s always “exceptions” allowed by law.
I got a letter in March from Independent Living Systems, saying there was a breach and my data might have been compromised. I never even heard of them and they aren’t even in my state but with technology, this doesn’t matter now. It’s some kind of third party that partners with hospitals, healthcare providers, assisted living facilities, to name a few. Of course nobody can say how they got my information or why they have it or need it. And this occurred in July of 2022!! Yet the letter didn’t go out until this March. There’s a class action suit against them now. 
I know this isn’t about Betterhelp per se but it is about our data or activity online. I do as little as possible online. But more and more we are forced to go online to do stuff. And I think it’s about money. Advertising money or avoiding having to pay humans to make appointments, answer your questions, etc. And you have to log in, which is another username and password to keep safe.
I had to get that out. I’m old enough to remember when your phone number either was listed or unlisted in a printed directory. Now people can find information on you, phone number or whatever online. There was no Do Not Call list since there weren’t a lot of telemarketer calls. Now there’s billions going out daily.
Long rant but I feel better. Our activity is another commodity and it really disturbs me.
 
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Do Not Call, thats another thing that pisses (excuse the language please) me off - I'm on the do not call list, yet I have to ignore my landline I get so many scam calls despite being on the list
Only reason I keep the landline is cause mobile signal is a piece of crap here - and what if I have a emergency and need to phone the emergency services or the vet? If my phone signal decides nope, without a landline, it could prove fatal (for family nearby if my mum has a medical emergency and cannot get to her phone, I call round daily to see her and make sure everything's okay) and there's also the thing of if I get home from work and Tigger or Willow really need to go into the vet - without a landline I'd be screwed, if phone signal decides nope I'm not going to give you a signal, willowtigger
I haven't yet had it happen with Willow and Tigger, but my Ebony there was a serious danger that I could get home one day and find her on the floor in serious need of going into the vet cause of her health conditions, basically she was expected to die in 2016 but she kept fighting until 2018 when the cancers got her
I'll never forget her last night, she kept walking in circles and had several fits during the night as well, I got her into the vet as soon as I could but my sweetpea never made it home she died in my arms on the vet table cause they couldn't save her cause the aggressive cancers had got her in too many places and they couldn't get to most of the cancers at all
cause some of it was in her brain they said
there's honestly nothing I wouldn't give, to be able to go back to when she was still reasonably healthy (she was never completely healthy, but i mean when her illnesses was stable) and find a way to save her, before the cancers ever got into her
willowtigger getting really upset now cause she wants to go back and save Ebony and she cant