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[–] sailsperson@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (15 children)

If you don't mind such things one bit, would you mind sharing with all of here all of the following:

  • your physical address (preferably in the format that would let anyone of us send you whatever we desire)
  • your age
  • your full legal name
  • your phone number that you use most often
  • your school
  • your work (its address, your title, company, etc)
  • your income
  • your expenses
  • the stores you go to and what for, also when and how often
  • your hometown
  • your pet names
  • your mother's maiden name
  • your bank of choice
  • what tech you own in detail
  • your schedule
  • your search history
  • your browser bookmarks

And many other things, too. Somehow I doubt you'd ever do that, but you're fine trusting this kind of data to be handed away to many corporations for absolutely no benefit on your end. They'll just sell it for cash money, only to be bought by con-artsists to try and scam you out of something later.

I mean being a contempt consumer is one thing, but defending some entities hoarding more data about you than your entire family knows is just delusional. Especially given the fact that you are most likely more careful with your data in other circumstances, like talking to strangers or using the Internet for at least some things, but then you defend careless and irresponsible handling of your data when it comes to what, mobile apps?

You should really learn more on the topic.

[–] Forcma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you were a faceless algorithm yhea I wouldn’t mind, I’m giving my address and information to plenty of companies I get services from. Those false equivalences are why people don’t take you seriously.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you seriously this delusional? There is no "faceless algorithm", they can pull your profile at any time and give it to the highest bidder.

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

Wait, you actually think they sell single profiles? Go buy some tinfoil, the lizard people may come for you with all that Google data

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

It's usually not a "Hey, we give you a profile for $2".

It's more like "Oh, you, political party XY want to show advertisment to 2000 people? No problem... We helped you filter the perfect people... There you go, 2000 low-educated, mid-20 users who were classified as easy to manipulate by our algorithms. Bonus: They are having a hard time now and are classified are 'probably depression' (lost children or parents or their home, ...), so they are even easier to target at the moment. We will show them your propaganda for just $xxxx "

That's how they make money.

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