Comment on Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt isn’t used to make anything of me at all. You don’t seem to understand how this data is collected, aggregated and sold.
Literally no one has a profile on me specifically. Relevant bits of data are captured and filtered and packaged and sold without any human interaction.
There is no database entry for you as a person.
rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
How do you think TikTok recommends videos you like? How do you think YouTube shows you videos about astronomy or diy-stuff or whatever you like and omit the videos about kajaking? How do you think amazon recommends you similar items or shows you what you bought in the last 6 months?
They all have a specific profile for you as a preson. It doesn’t really matter if they don’t file it with your real name as a key. It may be called a number or just contain your email address. Nonetheless it get’s loaded and used when you open your browser, when you log in to those services. And don’t tell me you have 20 google accounts, clear your cookies and have all the browser extensions installed to evade all of that.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TikTok recommends me stand-up comedy and thicc goth girls because that’s what I’ve swiped on. Every now and then MTG card reviews pop up because I think that dude is funny.
I’m not a child, so I’m capable of curating shit I watch
rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
So they must have a database entry specifically for you. Otherwise they couldn’t recommend you anything after you closed the app.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, my phone ID and random data snippets are not “me.” If I have another device and sign in under a different email, I get totally different content while still being me.