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Should I become "privacy-focused" despite my data before I was "privacy-focused" was used or sold? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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For example, I have been using Google or Apple for 7 years, and seeing that I was fingerprinted, tracked through third-party cookies, etc. I want to switch to a more private option.

But is it worth it? They know about me, they have now AI that can just use the behavior pattern for the last 7 years and still track me.

Again the question comes, should I become "privacy-focused" despite my data before I was "privacy-focused" used and sold?

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago

You probably had different interest, travel, and product usage patterns now than you did ten years ago. I don't see why behavioral patterns wouldn't continue to change going forward, so as old data becomes obsolete taking care of present and future data is still worth doing to some extent even if past data might be freely available.

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