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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by intopieces on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:04PM (#16674246)
>Can you elaborate on how exactly maintaining your own site/blog/domain/presence etc is at odds with privacy advocation?

A website that any old person can access means it's a website that any number of bots can crawl over and aggregate. Now you're basically back where we started with Facebook.

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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by walterbell on Sunday March 25, 2018 @05:03PM (#16674599)
There's a big difference between content aggregation (done by all search engines) and behavioral profiling (done by advertising companies, including social media).
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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by intopieces on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:36PM (#16675048)
Sure, but that fact that the latter is supposedly not done on personal web pages doesn't mean it can't / won't be done on the data on, say, Mastodon instances.
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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by bogomipz on Sunday March 25, 2018 @07:42PM (#16675344)
A crawler has no way of knowing whether or not I visited a site. A crawler doesn't have access to cookie data or HTTP access logs. So no we are not "back where we started with Facebook."
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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by jefurii on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:01PM (#16680428)
HTTP Basic authentication
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