@just_one_bear @frumble @MichaelBishop @sass nope, if you have the Jetpack plugin installed (e.g. for Akismet comment spam protection, your content is still uploaded to Automattic and sold to AI companies, according to Derek Powazek.

mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/

Some of this may be misunderstandings due to Automattic being tight-lipped, but the Intelligence Community has an adage that you gauge an adversary’s capabilities, not their intentions, and Wordpress must now be classified as adversarial or untrusted software.

I’m happy I switched to Hugo 6 years ago.