• wischi
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    2 days ago

    But that also means that you are way less anonymous and many people don’t even know that. Interactions that are typically “anonymous” (except of course to the platform owner) on other platforms like up/down voting is completely public on lemmy. Everybody can just “tap” the feed and see what you upvote and downvote - it’s basically heaven for data collectors and advertising companies.

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      1 day ago

      Why would I worry about ads on a different instance than the one I am using?

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      it’s basically heaven for data collectors and advertising

      That would imply they didn’t have access before. Let’s face it, they did. It’s just democratising the access to that information.