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I personally feel as if its like polluting the fediverse!

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[–] hellskis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is all on the open web. If they find it useful to create surveillance profiles of fediverse users they will do so, whether we defederate or not. That’s the current price of being on the internet.

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

That's technically a possibility, however it would be very illegal. The punishment for breaking GDPR laws can be very severe.