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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can I have your bank account username and password?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can I have your psychosexual profile and live gps coordinates?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fish sadist, 47°9′S 126°43′W

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Like, a sadist for fish? Or a sadist that is a fish?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

A fish who is a sadist in his sexual relations with other fish obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awww, but understandable. Can I see your bank statements for the last 12 months?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you do care about privacy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, when it comes to sharing sensitive information publicly, I do care about privacy. Especially bank information - a regular bank statement could probably be exploited for identity theft - but it's also nice to keep at least a little plausible deniability about who I am IRL (for employers and such).

When it comes to websites and browsers aggregating browsing history to use for advertising - which is what I was referring to in my original comment - no I don't care.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It could be used to take my money, which directly and drastically harms me and benefits you. Or worse, “steal my identity” and take out a loan in my name. Things like bank statements could also potentially be used for that, and I have no reason to give them to internet strangers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

so you DO care about privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, obviously I prefer to keep my secure credentials private to avoid having my bank account compromised.

I'm pretty sure any popular modern browser can be trusted not to leak that data, even Google Chrome. If anything I trust Chrome more because Google has an incentive to not obliterate trust in their security.

Now browsing history for advertisers is a different story - that is something I explicitly don't care about. And that's what I was obviously referring to in my first comment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It literally is privacy.