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Question from Pete L.: Several of my Facebook friends use “Facebook Live Video” to broadcast all kinds of stupid stuff.
Personally, I find the invitations to view their videos to be very irritating.
I’ve watched a few of these videos in the pastout of curiosity and I have no desire to ever watch another one.
How can I completely disable Facebook Live Notifications and prevent them from popping up when I’m using Facebook?
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Question from Marla: I’ve had a ProtonMail account for over a year and I’ve been happy with it all that time, but now not so much.
A very serious issue has arisen and I hope you can help me close my account.
Question from Mark: I read your blog post explaining why it’s a bad idea to log into third-party websites with Facebook.
That’s some pretty scary stuff.
My question is how can I see which websites have access to my information right now?
The reason I’m asking is because I’ve used Facebook to log into lots of websites in the past, and I’ve forgotten what most of them were.
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Question from Alan: I bought a new 4TB external hard drive to hold my photos.
I bought the new drive because the 1TB drive I’ve been using to store my photos is full and I have a lot more pictures to scan and store.
My plan is to give the 1TB drive to my niece so she can use it with her iMac, but I want to completely erase everything from the drive before I give it to her.
That way she can start fresh with a blank drive.
Can you tell me how to completely erase this drive with my MacBook?
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Question from Marshall P.: I really want to buy a 2TB SSD to go in my Dell desktop computer that I use to run my landscaping business.
Can you help me find the cheapest 2TB SSD that I can buy that’s not a piece of junk?