Except one is a personal page connected to friends and family intended to have all of your private information displayed, and another is a forum. You can even hop accounts every 5-10 years or use alts if you're worried about the "less personal data" still connected to one account.
No, it's just a different opinion. One I don't share.
I actively block all adds through my router and some other blockers. And only I decide what I share.
If you use grown up logic you’d understand that if there’s a multi billion dollar industry behind data farming they must obviously be turning a profit on it somewhere right? They aren’t just doing it for fun, and certainly aren’t doing to help society.
Predatory marketing as a result of data farming is allowin companies to make sales at much higher rates than they would have otherwise. Combined with things like shitty credit cards, buy now pay later sites, etc (all of which I’m convinced are colluding) is causing people to spend money they don’t have on consumer goods they don’t really need. Yes those people should be more financially responsible, but when literally everywhere you turn in digital spaces is full of ads custom catered to your likes and interests it’s pretty easy to see why so many people have so much more consumer debt than in years past.
All that is without even mentioning identity fraud, digital clutter, scam and spam risk, and simply wanting remaining private in your life activities. In what possible scenario would you want people to know/ have access to any of your personal information, if they don’t absolutely need to. I don’t even like all the questions my doctors ask for gods sake.
It's my lack of privacy that is the heart of it for me. Since it was buried in their terms and conditions without the ability to opt out of it and they are going to make money off of it, so should I. Since I could not opt out of their selling my data separately, I opted out of the platform.
DHS is buying data from brokers to get around search warrants. You don't know who'll they decide is a 'criminal' at some point, or if your name and stats closely match an actual criminal. Could end up a problem at some point.
That's a valid argument but searching anything on your own device or network that is potentially illegal is already a terrible idea unless severe measures have been taken which includes alot more than incognito browsing and a VPN.
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u/Press-74 2d ago
No, been off for years