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Billie Thompson 🦊

@denschub why did you unilaterally decide to use my computing power to help advertisers, without concent. Without notification to me about an additional data processor that was handling my data, working with a company that is known to systematically undermine privacy. You say in your readme it's not really valuable to users only advertisers

15 July at 20:55 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Alarith Uhde

@PurpleBooth @denschub

From the reddit post:

"Most users just accept the defaults they’re given"

[...]

"There is a toggle to turn it off because some people object to advertising irrespective of the privacy properties"

Bad defaults are only bad if other people set them.

15 July at 22:49 | Open on hci.social
Billie Thompson 🦊

@alarith @denschub there is definitely a discussion of harm here, the harm of not turning it on is... Zero. The harm of turning it on by default is that people who previously weren't being tracked now are. Not zero.

15 July at 22:53 | Open on hachyderm.io
Billie Thompson 🦊

@alarith @denschub let's be clear, this technology does nothing to protect privacy, other than hoping that services that don't use this data source somehow stop existing. What it does do is create a new data source for targeting advertising.

15 July at 23:03 | Open on hachyderm.io
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