Yeah I love it when people say “if you don’t pay you are the product” as if paying for youtube premium, google one, reddit premium or spotify will stop them from harvesting your data haha that’s how naive we were back when we thought data was collected only for ads.
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the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoIf you pay tho they’re also harvesting your data. And if you don’t use your service they make a ghost profile and harvest that data.
GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 8 months ago
prole@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The only way to fully prevent it is to remove the profit-motive altogether.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Sounds fun!