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0 pointsbigfudge3y ago0 comments

one point is that I may not have any specific sites I care about disassociating myself with. I just don’t want an aggregate picture to be built and sold freely.

Cliche example/ I want to be able to buy a pregnancy test online but don’t want that information shared and re marketed to me. There is plenty of stuff like this. The impact of privacy violation is small and often boring but on aggregate corrosive to public discourse and individual wellbeing.

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noduerme3y ago

Look... to this and other (sib) posts I have total sympathy, but much better tracking can be done with cookies and other forms of client side storage. Which the 90% of people do not notice, clear, or care about.

Fingerprinting is by definition a lot more imprecise and vague. It's always going to be an issue if surveillance networks use it to pick out individual users. Whining about that is useless. It's also a valuable security tool and part of the landscape. Do with it what you can.

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0 pointsbigfudge3y ago0 comments

one point is that I may not have any specific sites I care about disassociating myself with. I just don’t want an aggregate picture to be built and sold freely.

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noduerme3y ago

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