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This convinced me to finally delete my bird corpse account. They say this shit is optional and even "premium" for now but I for one don't want to be doxxed by a whoopsie automatic opt-in to scrape data off my device.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66679922.amp

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You'd think that at least some of the techno-libertarians would remember that data harvesting is a bad thing.

Reminds me of the graph I saw that shows how five or six years ago, appearances of the term "spyware" basically fell to zero because that's just a fundamental of how almost every piece of software works now