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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by Garrrrrr on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:23PM (#34377380)
Anon gathered around and hacked Sony back in 2011 (mainly) because of the absorbent information they were gathering from everyone's PlayStation 3 consoles. They never stopped gathering an obscene amount of information from their users, and nether did any other mid-major technology company.

Google knows everything about you/us if you use their services. It's really bad, we know. For some of us that's inescapable because of our careers/jobs, or if we use Google search on our own devices on our networks compared to alternative platforms. Even your smart lightbulbs are gathering data on you. Android (AND Android TV) is Google:

> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/android-sends-20x-mo...

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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by amake on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:59PM (#34377505)
> absorbent information
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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by aeonik on Saturday January 14, 2023 @01:30AM (#34377834)
Exorbitant fits better than absorbent, but it's still an interesting use of absorbent.

Something like "Absorbent nature they have for information" if you still want to use absorbent.

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