saturnø 🐹 @saturno@octodon.social

Apparently YouTube tracks us like mad. They gague interest by length of watch and do loads of geo location... (insert sad face)

DuckDuckGo allows you to watch through them and it proxies it. (I don’t really understand but I’m learning) gives you choices to watch via them, with far less tracking
#privacy

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones/

Today's lesson: Medium is bad. They've suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories for bogus reasons and with only 12 hours notice.

#Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from #Android phones | #metadata #privacy https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones/

What you should not forget is that: public posts are public, private posts may still be public if sent to dishonest servers, DMs are not protected by encryption and rely on both involved instance's honesty.
If you allow everyone to follow you your data may get mined just as on the commercial platforms.
If you have a commercial bot (in disguise) in your followers, it will see and mine those toots.
Just being a federation is no silver bullet to the privacy issue. But ou aren't the product anymore.

@saturno Data belongs to the individual who generates it.

Not in the headlines this morning.

#StephenHawking https://social.coop/media/M5l049Qm4B_STHJWcDU

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