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submitted 1 month ago by leraje to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22523265

There’s a reason that cookies and privacy policies (in the EU at least) have become such an online nuisance. These assurances of your safety and privacy are nothing more than a pretext to get consent. Your “anonymised” data is sold to an infinite regress of third parties, analysed, correlated and de-anonymised again. Any smart device you use, your browsing habits, banking transactions, your GPS position are all used to deduce fine grain information about you. Then weaponised against you for as much profit as possible.

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

Great article.

None of these platforms intended to enable stochastic terrorism, but it made them money.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for posting here!

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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