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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would they want that? Are there any cases of it being abused?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah why would any mega conglomerate corporate entity want the most valuable and easy to harvest resource on earth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Computer usage statistics? Score!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of course, no unfathomably demonic corporate entity would ever choose to track users and target them like that, to for instance sell products with zero repressions due to a lobbying hate group bribing lawyers to make it legal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Would be completely illegal in countries with gdpr. I'm a programmer and can tell you every company takes that super seriously.

You have to agree to be tracked. Most people just do it without thinking.