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RE: Facebook, Reddit, Steem - surveillance, datamining, advertisers and privacy
My favorite part about having facebook/instagram is that they target ads to me through listening to what the fuck I'm saying. Every week we get some weird fucked up ads shown to us within a couple of hours of when we had a conversation about said things/people. We were talking about her coworker who is wanting to get married and is also a lesbian. Like 4 hours later she's getting wedding ads for lesbians on Instagram. Wow, what a weird coincidence! There's no way we're being snooped on, nah.
you're freaking me out man!!
i once bought a medical product at walgreens and hours later was getting ads for that exact product. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Everyone should look into 3 things - The Brave browser, DuckDuckGo, and the software company known as Substratum - the trifecta of privacy, anonymity and freedom on the world wide web.
Check out my post on Substratum:
https://steemit.com/substratum/@theskim/internet-freedom-in-the-age-of-information-the-time-for-substratum-is-now
More coming on Brave and DuckDuckGo soon.
The fact that most apps do that is fucking annoying, to say the least. But I enjoy the fact that even hardcore skeptics of how invasive these companies can be are made aware of practices like this once they figure out what's going on after a few incidents like this happen to them.