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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Boy does that ever make my skin crawl.

I didn't like it when it was a Microsoft product, and even as an open-source one do I ever not want an app collating everything about me, where I go, what I look at, and who I talk to into a single database.

Especially since they don't talk about how they secure the local data; this is just making a one-stop shop for someone to steal and then learn absolutely everything there is to know about you.

[–] halfsak 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yup. This is how you create a single point of failure when it comes to privacy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep looking at all this data collection stuff and wonder if I'm actually crazy to be bothered by it, especially given that I'm totally not a privacy extremist.

Maybe I'm one of the people that doesn't feel the need to constantly go back to figure out what I did a week ago or whatever, and thus all I'm seeing is a tool that knows more about me than I do, and then puts all that data in a single place that is now the prime target for every malicious actor on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I used to find stuff like this fascinating. Like if collecting my data can help me, why not? But technology has gotten to a point that it's just straight up creepy how our every single waking moment can be tracked and collected, even if it's me collecting it. It's like watching every dystopian sci-fi story come to life in real time.

[–] TseseJuer 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the dystopian scifi story has always been reallife. better get used to it kid... cuz yer in one

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