Alan Dalton

Alan Dalton

sharing five online safety tips and two social media accessibility tips (here in a personal capacity)

Online safety tip №1: Use a password manager.

iCloud Keychain

Google Password Manager

Dashlane (affiliate link)

“Dashlane is life-changingly great. And free. Get it.” 
—David Pogue, The New York Times, 5th June 2013

Online safety tip №2: Use a browser that respects your privacy.

🦁 Brave browser

🦊 Firefox browser

Online safety tip №3: Check if your email address or phone number is in a data breach.

🧑‍💻 Check your email addresses and phone numbers in “‘;–have i been pwned?”

📧 Subscribe to the “‘;–have i been pwned?” notifications

Online safety tip №4: Use a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

🦁 Brave Firewall + VPN

🧑‍💻 ExpressVPN (affiliate link)

“I don’t trust people’s WiFi—and honestly, you shouldn’t, either. […] I don’t trust public WiFi. […] ExpressVPN is rated the fastest, most reliable, number-one-rated VPN-provider by review sites like TechRadar and CNET. They’re really serious about privacy and security […].”
—Marco Arment, Accidental Tech Podcast episode №357, 17th December 2019

Online safety tip №5: Check security and privacy settings in the services you use.

🏨 Check your Airbnb account’s login & security settings.

🏨 Check your Airbnb account’s privacy & sharing settings.

🔎 Do a security checkup for your Google account

🔎 Do a privacy checkup for your Google account

🔎 Check which apps and websites can access your Google account

📘 Do a privacy checkup for your Facebook account

📘 Check the apps and websites that you've connected to your Facebook account

📷 Check your Instagram account’s privacy and security

📷 Check the apps and websites that you’ve authorised to access your Instagram account

🐦 Check your Twitter account’s security and access

🐦 Check your Twitter account’s privacy and safety

🐦 Check which apps and websites can access your Twitter account

👤 Manage your privacy settings for your personal Microsoft account

👤 Manage your security settings for your personal Microsoft account

👤 Check which apps and websites can access your personal Microsoft account

🏢 Check the security information for the Microsoft account that you use for school or work

🏢 Check the privacy settings for the Microsoft account that you use for school or work

🏢 Check third-party app permissions for the Microsoft account that you use for school or work

📇 Check the sign-in and security settings for your LinkedIn account

📇 Check how LinkedIn uses your data

🧑‍💻 Check your GitHub account security

🧑‍💻 Check which apps and websites can access your GitHub account.

👻 Check your Snapchat privacy settings

👻 Check how to stay safe on Snapchat

👻 Check how to remove a connected app from your Snapchat account.

👾 Check your Reddit account’s safety and privacy.

🇺🇸🛒 Check your Amazon USA’s login & security settings.

🇺🇸🛒 Manage your “Login with Amazon [USA]” connections.

🇬🇧🛒 Check your Amazon UK’s login & security settings.

🇬🇧🛒 Manage your “Login with Amazon [UK]” connections.

🎮 Learn about account/server safety for your Discord account.

📹 Check your Twitch account’s security and privacy settings.

📹 Manage your Twitch account’s connected accounts and services.

🪙 Check your Coinbase account’s security settings.

🪙 Check the third-party applications that can access your Coinbase account.

🪙 Check the list of cryptocurrency addresses that you have allowed your Coinbase account to send funds to.

🪙 (If you join Coinbase with this affiliate link and trade $100 of cryptocurrency, you and I will get $10 of free Bitcoin!)

👋 Check your HEY account’s login & security settings.

🍏 Check your Apple ID account’s sign-in and security settings.

👥 Check your Atlassian (Trello, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Opsgenie, Statuspage) account’s security settings.

👥 Check your Atlassian (Trello, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Opsgenie, Statuspage) account’s connected apps.

💬 Check your Slack account’s settings.

💬 Check the apps that are installed on your Slack account.

🎵 Check your Spotify account’s privacy settings.

🎵 Check the apps that can access your Spotify account.

🎫 Check your contact details and password on your Ticketmaster account

🎫 Check your Ticketmaster account’s connected accounts

📌 Check your Pinterest account’s privacy and data settings.

📌 Check your Pinterest account settings, including login options and claimed accounts.

📊 Check your Airtable account’s settings, including password and two-factor authentication.

🤝 Check your Zoom account’s security settings

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Social media accessibility tip №1: Learn how to add descriptive text to images that you post.

📘 Learn how to edit the alternative text for a photo on Facebook.

📷 Learn how to edit the alternative text for a photo on Instagram.

🐦 Learn how to make images in tweets accessible for people.

📇 Learn how to add alternative text to images for accessibility on LinkedIn.

💬 Learn how to add descriptions to images on Slack

Social media accessibility tip №2: Learn how to add captions to videos that you post.

📘 Learn how to add or remove captions on your video on Facebook.

📷 Learn how to add subtitles to your videos online for free, with Adobe Spark.

🐦 Learn how to use subtitles to provide context and clarity to video content on Twitter.

📇 Learn how to add closed captions to videos on LinkedIn.

📺 Learn how to add subtitles and captions on YouTube.

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📲 Tweet a social media accessibility tip for me to consider including here.

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