• no banana@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m glad I’m chronically uninteresting. If I had literally any information of value I’d be much more careful but now I’m just one of many in a massive crowd of more interesting people.

    I’m still blocking advertisements though. Fuck that shit.

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      9 months ago

      Uh oh, you just claimed to be uninteresting… I think that trigger language gets you flagged for further follow-up?! You are now on their radar buddy!!!

      (/s btw)

      Says me, who is totally a spy. Yup, absolutely they should read all of my data.

      (but a spy would never say that so…)

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        9 months ago

        Reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit about marketing and advertising. “Oh he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar, that’s a great market!”

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          9 months ago

          Yeah I suppose in this game you only get to choose your side, but the option to not play at all is not left open to you.

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            9 months ago

            Or, you can choose not to play but that basically means rejecting society. That price is too high for 99%+ of people. Some of us try to partially abstain with privacy tools.

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              9 months ago

              You would have to not have an address, phone, or use the internet, nor travel along a roadway that has billboards (even the Amish are not immune!), so yeah, wherever you are they will track you down, basically.:-( Which is on them, while what we choose to do about it is on us:-).

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                9 months ago

                Yeah you’d have to be an off-grid mountain man, basically. That’s why so few do it, but some do!

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                  9 months ago

                  Hrm… come to think of it, there are some people who would want to have a list of off-grid mountain men (hunters of potential immortal vampires? or perhaps to ensure that such people have their… ahem “votes” properly counted?), so even then there surely is a list, or rather a few thousand lists, of such people? Perhaps all people who have not bought anything for the last 5 years but for where an obituary has not yet recorded their deaths?

                  (Unfortunately) where there is a will, there is a way!

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                    9 months ago

                    Ugh, you’re right. They may not be able to find you to sell you shit, but they can still piece together the you-shaped hole you left behind.

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      9 months ago

      I mean you consume goods and utilize services, so in the context of advertising, yes you are interesting and valuable.

      (Also in the context of being a fellow human being, just so you know ❤️, but that’s a separate topic)