Awesome, really appreciate all the details. I’ll make an account for each of the 3 and go from there.

Sure there is the fear of a data breach since these sites will have my SSN, and breaches seem far too common these days. But if you trust them, I’ll take your word since you’ve taught me far more than I expected to learn asking! The FIS sounds nightmarish.

Any other information you think might be worth sharing?

Which one required money to unfreeze? Because that definitely sounds sketchy.

I mean, this is exactly how it feels these days, and it sorta does feel like the entry field for my information on those sites isn’t that safe lol. Let alone professional, makes you wonder if the sites legitimate. 🥴

Notepad++ isn’t trying to shoehorn in AI for starters. It’s clear Microsoft is praying the current gimmicky narrative of AI will let the masses not realize this is a privacy nightmare.

I figured, but I heard there were other agencies, and I was hoping someone hear could shed some light on it. I maybe getting old, but i like thinking there’s always something new to learn. 👍

Thanks I’ll do all of them, is the response time usually fast? And, it feels crazy risky giving them my cell number these days with increasing frequency of spam, can I just leave that blank? 🤔

Can’t say I knew Innovis existed, wonder why it’s not shared as one of the big ones?

Also, it could be silly asking, but why do you want to freeze your debit score? I never knew that was even a thing until now.

You had me with Meeting humans is intolerable, but lost me with the rest.

It’s a good thing I stayed loyal to Firefox. Mainly due to my dislike of change lol, but I was forced to use Chrome and it felt ominous with its owner being Google.

Alright, I guess I’ll stay where I am for now. My main concerns were streaming and privacy.

Bingo. When I heard about it, figured I would rather ask here.

Nothing, more VPN’s feel like they change fast anymore. Mainly I’m getting old lol, gives the guttural feeling of constantly trying to keep up 🤣.

Haha Open to staying, just looking since it’s time to check the landscape out if anything’s changed. My friend has Proton VPN, but so many options these days.

Proof an AI is even remotely like a human would be the fact that if it thought it was human, it would show signs of depression.

I usually type out paragraphs, but after re-reading it, I realize I should just delete it.

You’re having a midlife crisis. Life sucks, your teenage years were a free trial, but you’ve been playing the game and realized it’s a big old turd sandwich structured to get less fun as time passes.

We all realize it at some point, some people earlier than others. Ultimately, you realize you can either have kids and get a distraction from the recent revelation or, you can suck it up, not have kids and realize it might not going to get much better and try dealing with the debt.

Wait until you hit your 40’s and you start seeing weight gain, joint pains and hairloss. And if you’re really lucky… erectile issues. Some of us see our crisis in our teens, just be happy you were able to stay oblivious as long as you were.

That said, I’m still chugging along knowing all this and I’ve learned it’s far easier to act happy, than be happy. So act happy, hell you might end up believing it.