Reply To: Software: On & Off the Web

[DeVaultSetter]

Really quite amazing how Reddit has taken so much of the life out of other communities, CodeProject for instance. They have an annoying habit of archiving many conversations, of interest to us perhaps, but not to them, not as bad as Microsoft Answers though. And the length of some threads can be cumbersome too, not as bad as Youtube where some have millions of comments. There’s a limit of around 750 replies to each YT comment (OP comment can have 3K? comments) which can make it very interesting, and a challenge for spambots to cause havoc as well. There’s also a YT community post with more than 92 million comments, no idea how the OP would process all these.
The accounts section of Software Informer had an old email address that couldn’t be removed, so after contacting them, they fixed it so it could be changed. No problems with them personally as never used their app for which they have been criticized in the past. Funny thing is, as soon as it was fixed, and the password was changed by me, got one of these Google Critical Security Alert emails: “Some of your saved passwords were found online.”

Some of your saved passwords were found in a data breach from a site or app that you use. Your Google Account is not affected.

Dispensing with the remote possibility the email is referring to something else happening elsewhere (the last GCS Alert received was back in ’21), interesting as to how exactly they come to that conclusion by what had just occurred, and from what their snooping bots log.