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Meh. I respect that, but I don’t pretend that CSIS/Apple/Google/NASA etc don’t already know everything I’ve ever said or done.
 
manny said:
Meh. I respect that, but I don’t pretend that CSIS/Apple/Google/NASA etc don’t already know everything I’ve ever said or done.
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There are way more tools for preserving as much privacy as is possible on desktop. Also, way more information that's valuable to advertisers on mobile these days.

Philosophically it's pretty simple. If the service is free, you're the product. I'm just not happy with that arrangement. If you want my information because it's commercially viable...fine, fuck you pay me. Don't pay someone else, pay me. If not, you can deal with my popup blockers, vpn's, incognito windows , masked emails, etc.


CSIS is what it is, yes if I'm up to some shit that's interesting to them, they're going to find out everything about me quite easily. My concern is giving free information away to data brokers and such.
 
Like most people, I don’t really know much about exactly what personal info is available to who and when. When I downloaded the NHL app on my cell phone I clicked on “ask app not to track”. Does that mean they won’t, or will they maybe anyway since all I did was ask? If they do, who might the NHL sell my data to? Maybe it’s somewhere in the fine print, but even so I’d have no control over whether those rules are followed.

Anyway, for me the marginal added data security risk of having a threads app on my phone is the lesser evil vs supporting the cesspool Xitter has become. I can respect different views.
 
manny said:
I clicked on “ask app not to track”. Does that mean they won’t,
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the internet economy is kind of based on the idea of offering a free service to get people in the door, then a membership or premium account to make money.
 
axlsalinger said:
the internet economy is kind of based on the idea of offering a free service to get people in the door, then a membership or premium account to make money.
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There's some of that, but the biggest social media companies all provide free user accounts, with no service tiers. Shit, even Amazon is in on the game now, they did 40B in ad revenue over the last 4 quarters.
 
Everyone knows everything about me anyways. I know I can't stop it, so honestly I kind of don't mind giving up information anymore. If Amazon can take my data and actually recommend me something I want, why not?
 
No offence man, but its wild to me that we all lived through the whole Cambridge analytica thing and you think that's all your data is useful to them for.
 
Is BlueSky any good? I've had an invite code sitting in my gmail for a month and haven't bothered with it (weather too nice, general indifference to twitter substitutes)
 
I have a BlueSky account. But it kind of followed the same pattern as Mastadon. I checked it out for a few days, nothing much seemed to be going on and precious few of the people I follow on Twitter were on and/or active on there.

Now it’s probably been a few weeks at least since the last time I looked at it.
 
LeafGm said:
I have a BlueSky account. But it kind of followed the same pattern as Mastadon. I checked it out for a few days, nothing much seemed to be going on and precious few of the people I follow on Twitter were on and/or active on there.

Now it’s probably been a few weeks at least since the last time I looked at it.
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This is my problem too, unfortunately.

Fuck you very much, Elon.
 
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Wayward DP said:
This is my problem too, unfortunately.

Fuck you very much, Elon.
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Like…I really don’t do “social media” at all. Twitter was pretty much the only one I found somewhat useful and checked regularly.

So annoying that piece of shit locked himself into massively overpaying for it while on a ketamine binge and has since made it his life’s mission to completely fuck it up.
 
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