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A comment on GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements. Parent comment

Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by mcbits on Saturday January 14, 2023 @04:18AM (#34378697)
> Thankfully, it’s almost unpossible to buy a telescreen without telemetry (and always has been)

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure I recall being able t&%@^0158

NNNNNNNN@*^&

NO CARRIER

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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by newsclues on Saturday January 14, 2023 @06:47AM (#34379515)
You can get the same panels as business signage displays (often) but you pay more for less features.

It should be illegal to make money selling a TV and data mining people without their informed consent.

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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by dsr_ on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:50AM (#34379906)
You could simplify that to "illegal to datamine without informed consent" or even "illegal to datamine".
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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by ianai on Saturday January 14, 2023 @09:21AM (#34380504)
Probably all it would take is defining peoples private property to include their personal information and “generated data” or something. Might even be something a suitable legal eagle could win in a lawsuit.
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Re:GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet adver... by nsb1 on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:03AM (#34379999)
"MOM! HANG UP THE PHONE!"
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