Firstly, I’m not against privacy or anything, just ignorant. I do try to stay pretty private despite that.

I wanted to know what type of info (Corporations? Governments? Websites??) Typically get from you and how they use it and how that affects me.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I don’t know how someone can both have a one year old Lemmy account and have been born yesterday. A torrent of like-I’m-5 answers to these questions are readily available to you. Did you try any search engine? Or maybe YouTube?

    • Darorad@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      People learn about different things at different times. If we care about promoting privacy we should be accomodating and not hostile about that.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      Personally I think its great to have online discussions/questions available on a forum (like lemmy) that are federated and accessible anonymously as it allows answers or discussions to be created and available for others to search and find in the future. There’s a lot of content that I find where answers or discussions were posted on reddit, but I can’t access it if I’m trying to reach it anonymously (bad for privacy).

      I would encourage these kind of posts as:

      1. They generate content for lemmy/the fediverse.
      2. The new content brings in more people, perspectives, and collaborations.
      3. People seeing active discussions on this site will inspire others to post more and help bring in other perspectives.
      4. Understanding the “Ten thousand” XKCD (xkcd.com) perspective lets you realize that people are learning all the time and that trying to get feedback in a forum is not a bad thing regardless of how many other options there are.