This How-To Video On Protecting Your Online Identity Won’t Actually Work, But It’s Still Amazing

Once you’ve got an online identity, it’s pretty much there to stay. So while we can’t be advocating one YouTuber’s tip on how to protect your personal info online due to its total and complete ineffectiveness, we can applaud him for a spirited performance.

Mr. Forthright is exactly what one might think from his name, there’s no bones about it. None of that extra jibber jabber others out there might be pushing, no siree. Just a man and his hammer.

Again, there are real ways to go about protecting your identity — strong passwords, checking your credit score often and monitoring your accounts, among other things — but this is still great. So great.

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