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Why you might want to opt out from data collection?
1️⃣ Advertising
Advertising companies are middlemans, collecting data on users, to advertise to them their companies ads. They lock in users by having many companies, and lock in companies by having many users with advertisement profiles.
The more data is collected, the better your profile, easier to sell you things you don't need.
Usually these companies are offering free services in return for showing you ads. But the main issue is, they are earning money by selling you stuff, instead of making their free service better.
That is why, in most cases, after companies get big enough, and unexitable by locking their private and business customers in, they can start to decrease or just don't improve the quality of their service.
In such a case, they are only incentivized to milk you more, because where could you go?
2️⃣ Used against you
Your search history may reveal interesting things about you, when you search for something you did not understand, and by grabbing it out of context, it can be used against you.
E.g.: your bag beeps on an airport, and you look for, what these detectors beep for. Then voilá, grabbing this out of context, why did you look for this info? Do you want to carry something that could beep?
We can even hear stories, where you can get into trouble only by being connected to other bad people. E.g. buying a second hand phone, that was used by a criminal before. (Of course bad is from the perspective of people in control. This definition can also easily change. For the better or worse)
3️⃣ Stolen
Colleced data can also be stolen. If 1-1 company stores huge amount of information about you, it even makes it easier, because only they have to be hacked.
Stolen data can be used for identity theft (e.g.: applying for loan and make bad credit for the stolen identity), credit card copying. So basically to stole money with it.
4️⃣ Control you
Data collection is the basis of surveillance and control. If lot of your data is collected, it will be easier to predict your behaviour with a bigger accuracy. Therefore, it will be easier to control you.
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I mean he did not define, the word "between". Like what is the definition of between. And if infite numbers are shaped as circle, between could be:
1 <------->10
Or
--->1 10 <---
He did not define between. If we define infinite numbers as a circle, then we have 2 betweens. 😂
I think it is the best to assume, that everyone knows your IP, your relays and your apps.
Because it is possible that it is logged. And coming from Murphy's law, it will be logged.
And just as an extra, even servers from which you load images are seeing your IP, and can log it.
✅️ Day 101 of #100pushups
Push ups: 10/25/25/20/20 (Full push ups)
Leg raise: 50/50 (Flat knee raises)
1 min break in between.
✅️ Day 102 of #100pushups
Push ups: 10/25/25/20/20 (Full push ups)
Leg raise: 50/50 (Flat knee raises)
1 min break in between.
#postr (Push ups and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays)
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Use VPN.
It is the curtain on the window of your internet capable devices.
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Competition is king!
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How does paying for post workout for stacker.news ?
How valid model is it?
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Hmmm, I think this is a really important lesson generally.
And this is why, we generally tend to learn from lessons we face ourselves, and not heard from others.
And also why privacy in general is a neglected thing.
But we could meme ourselves out of it
That is simply describing custodial wallets, or? Or you mean, that it is not taken as serious as it is?
Hmmm, that is an interesting experience.
Have you learned something already worth summarizing in 3 points?
> But It makes no sense that the free proton servers are faster than the paid proton servers.
This is enshittification. When companies are decreasing value for more profit. Might not be the case, but smells like it.
> that’s different from Blacklisted.
Definitely. I think I have not faced only with Tor, the blacklist issue. But I guess it is matter of time then.
Does anyone have the same feeling with Proton VPNs? Like it is getting enshittified?
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That is enshittification in my opinion of Proton.
VPNs will be slower for sure. Because you have added route to your browsing to mask your IP.
Also you will get more captcha for sure.
I think that will only change, if VPN usage is normal, and masses will move from a site that is shitty.