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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:08AM (#27760166)
> If it collects any data at all, it's surveillance

Great, we just banned TCP.

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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by 411111111111111 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:25AM (#27760849)
Exposing is not the same as collecting though...

I'd definitely consider a system which collects all information that are exposed in a TCP stream a surveillance tool

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Re:Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising by swiley on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:59AM (#27760599)
That's why we have TOR. Which allows you to use TCP without revealing the two TCP endpoints to anyone else.
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