• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    But data brokers are doing this to all of us, all the time.

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      There is also a difference between paywalling info behind a company that only three letter agencies and targeting advertising firms will even know the name of most of the time, and broadcasting that information on social media.

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        Why should corporate entities get to stalk you more successfully or more permissively than anyone else?

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          They shouldn’t, but they also use a method that’s a lot more tedious and annoying for a rando to use than just being able to see it on Twitter, which is like, 99% of the definition of “more secure”