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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which is still an issue. "Opting-out" means opting-out not halfway opting-in.

[–] TheWildTangler@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not perfect, but at least you're only seeing others' activity.

There's hopefully a "discover" email notification you can disable. I haven't been bothered enough to check yet. Worst case, it could be filtered out pretty easily.