Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android
by mkdirp on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:44PM
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On average only 3 pieces of information are needed to identify a person. Sure you're person 1234567890, but all the information linked to that user can find out exactly who that person is.
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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android
by ApolloFortyNine on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:04PM
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So? If your issue is government surveillance, take it up with them, get a law created so they can't look at it. If it's the company, they truly don't care who you are, you truly are 1234567890 to them. If that, it's unlikely a human being will ever actually look at your data.
Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android
by mkdirp on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:45AM
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If you think you truly are user 1234567890 then you're sorely mistaken. Corporations have one thing in mind, and that is profit. They'll use your data however they see fit to maximise those profits. If that means identifying you, then so be it.
There is a reason phrase like microtargetting exists. When a political group is able to target individuals using their platform, that's not okay.
It gets worse though, government surveillance is one thing, it's another when Corporations give them full access to their data. Or did we forget Snowden already?