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Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash by ethanbond on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:46PM (#22644229)
If you are legitimately interested in understanding this train of thought, I highly recommend checking out the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (sp?)
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Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash by catalogia on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:43PM (#22644215)
When you close the bathroom door, is it because of paranoia?

Conflating a desire for privacy with paranoia is absurd.

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Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash by RandomBacon on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:18AM (#22646043)
HN won't let me reply to the dead comment, so I'll post it here:

privacy ≠ paranoia

Corporations don't need to know more about me than my own family. See example...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

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Re:Coronavirus is not a good argument for quitting cash by g_langenderfer on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:48PM (#22656352)
This is not a true representation of the population served ads. Are you confident the small benefit most receive is worth throwing out to avoid outliers like this?
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