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Any of a number of virtual mailbox services which can receive mail for you, e.g. anytimemailbox.com but there are several. You can either pick up in person, or they offer services like mail forwarding, opening and scanning, etc.

Besides privacy against leaking your sleeping-address to businesses, they're also convenient for avoiding package theft if that's a problem in your area, and receiving/forwarding mail if you travel a lot for extended periods of time.

I'd recommend against PO boxes because (1) they get rejected by some services (2) UPS and FedEx won't deliver to them.

Because these businesses have to register as CMRAs and you have to sign a notarized form for them to legally receive mail for you, some services will still detect it and not let you use the address, but my experience for the most part has been that most US financial institutions let you enter a "residential/legal address" (no CMRAs allowed) and a "mailing address" (CMRAs allowed) separately, and the mailing address usually becomes your billing address.

by nekusar3 hours ago|

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Or.....Install Linux and bypass all this stupidity.

They will move faster to track each and every one of you, all the while shoving ads and garbage down each of your respective machines... and you all pay for it?!

by 0cf8612b2e1e19 minutes ago|

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Surely I am safe running VSCode on my Linux machine. No chance it would upload a bunch of personal telemetry without my say so.

by nekusar7 minutes ago|

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Use VSCodium. It's the FLOSS branch with Microsoft tracking shit removed.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

by nemomarx3 hours ago|

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You still want the virtual mailing address for other reasons honestly. Even if your os isn't tracking you or leaking things giving your real address to any business could lead to it being leaked because no one cares about security, etc. If that's in your threat model you should be using a good proxy mailer

by nekusar2 hours ago|

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Perhaps so. But the problem at hand here is that MS Windows has so lost the plot of being an OS for users, to ABUSING users.

All these fixes and repairs ignore the fact that abusing people pays. Surveillance capitalism pays, and provides a revenue stream for Microsoft to further exploit.

The only way to win is not to play.