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Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 16 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Start teaching people to ignore ads. I know I do, and it's something my parents taught me when I was younger.

It won't help with data collection, but it will make it a lot harder for these assholes to put the pieces together.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about teaching them to install Adblockers?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only helps wherever adblockers work, but I'm all for a multiple discipline approach!

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only place adblockers don't work is real world billboards.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

i would be much more interested in the whole AR-glasses BS if one of them had an app that blocks ads in real life

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

I think ar glasses would be cool regardless but adblock is defiantly a top priority application.

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