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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

There is a massive leap between collecting data and selling your data.

I am against both but in the digital age actually knowing who has your data is such a relief. My old email got sold to third party’s a bit to many times and to this day 80% of the incoming messages are blatant generic America targeted phishing.