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How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance? (beehaw.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I'm interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess.

Edit: Please, no more splaining how there isn’t any privacy on the net. There’s what can be scraped, what can be gathered from cookies (which I’m as careful as I can be about), and there’s what we make it easy for corporations to collect by using their products. I’m asking about the latter for Discord and Tumblr. It’s not that I’m unaware of the general problem (otherwise I wouldn’t be asking), it’s just that I’m out of the loop on specifics for these sites.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I expect the things I say in a public square to be read and parsed for what they are, but it is not reasonable that people need to have an expectation of their data being mined and a shadow profile created for them to be plugged into an advertising and surveillance network.

If I walked into a public space and got stalked by a bunch of creeps who measured every single thing I did, down to collecting my DNA and fingerprinting my gait, it would be extremely unsettling and an obvious abuse of that public space.

It happens, obviously, but it should not be accepted as inevitable or necessary to a public square functioning as a way for people to exchange ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It would be nice if countries could set expectations of privacy laws and forbid cameras and public squares