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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by colmvp on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:16PM (#25665891)
The parent poster is likely mimicking the people asking why are you asking me move to another app when this app does everything fine?

To be honest, I'm not well versed in the debate of privacy, but invariably in discussing user tracking by BigCo's a lot of my friends just say "I don't care if they have my data, I've got nothing to hide."

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by daemin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:22AM (#25670203)
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and the saying should be extended to "I've got nothing to hide, now." Things change and either you'll do something which you'll want to hide, or society/politics/community will change which you'll have something to hide.

An example in the first case is that you'll want to buy a secret gift for someone, but because of the tracking the surprise will be spoiled because they'll be seeing ads for it on their systems.

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